To add to the lovely trashy talk about minorities and racism and how it can all be contributed to one group, I first want to point out how many polls, studies, and articles talk about racism towards whites. It's clearly not very common. Usually when the topic gets a turn at the discussion table, it inevitably discusses white racism towards others. Even hypothetical discussions on racism will say something like, "Let's talk about a white teacher with a few black students in his class..." It's nearly always framed in this manner.

Some examples:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ap-poll-majority-of-americans-still-express-negative-view-of-blacks/2012/10/27/421d683a-2009-11e2-8817-41b9a7aaabc7_story.html

The implication is that whites are racist. Well, when I found the poll (which stupidly was not given a hotlink when reading the article), I discovered that racism still remains largely the same towards whites, blacks, and Hispanics. I don't remember reading that.

http://surveys.ap.org/data/GfK/AP_Racial_Attitudes_Topline_09182012.pdf

Too bad I can't actually read the article without having to subscribe , but surely most of you remember that earlier this year a study came out ascribing greater intelligence to liberals than conservatives and racism to conservatives more than liberals. Aside from its inherent problems as a study (i.e. the lack uncertainty surrounding the reliability of IQ tests), the possible political motivations, and the fact that a tendency is not a certainty, nor does it even have to be large (I really would like to read the study and see what their conclusions were), an interesting phenomenon arose: liberals made *gasp* simplistic judgments and absolutist conclusions. "See, I told you liberals are smarter and conservatives are racist."

One line not given too much prominence from that study:

But Nosek said less intelligent types might be attracted to liberal "simplifying ideologies" as well as conservative ones.

In my mind, it is oversimplification that shows a lack of intelligence, the very thing that those who jump so quickly on this study are doing. And it is these people who tend to be racist, possibly even towards their own race!

Even if more conservatives are less intelligent and racist, I don't see how that makes every conservative viewpoint wrong either. And considering the stability that comes from a diverse makeup of worldviews, I don't see why so many liberals end up being the very bigots they despise.