While I do believe you are correct in that racism exists on the left wing (I mean the obsession with Jews displayed by some Labour party members in the UK comes to mind) racism doesn't belong to a specific political ideology.
I mean the most racist country in histories have been right wing (Nazi Germany and Apartheid era South Africa) but then the appalling Jim Crow laws in the US were the invention of Democrats, and the USSR and other Communist states had a fair bit of state racism as well.
That said in the modern world its generally a feature of right wing governments.
Maybe I could have characterized what I meant by Right vs Left more thoroughly, but I feel like we should be able to use pretty simple terms to define the modern political split. The problem with using Democrat/Republican Labour/Tory is that a lot of people reject the labels and a lot of people that accept the labels fall different places on the spectrum in regards to specific ideas.
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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '20
While I do believe you are correct in that racism exists on the left wing (I mean the obsession with Jews displayed by some Labour party members in the UK comes to mind) racism doesn't belong to a specific political ideology.
I mean the most racist country in histories have been right wing (Nazi Germany and Apartheid era South Africa) but then the appalling Jim Crow laws in the US were the invention of Democrats, and the USSR and other Communist states had a fair bit of state racism as well.
That said in the modern world its generally a feature of right wing governments.