This seems related to why I could not understand how southern whites did not think of themselves as racists. And the answer I think is that they believe you must use the n-word to be a racist, and if you are polite to a single black individual (and you probably are now a days) you cannot be racist
Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy PodcastComing out as trans convinced me that both things are true because Republicans are stupid and cannot see basic connections between things. They can like every trans person they know, think trans people should be wiped out, and not understand how the trans people they know would be impacted by this.