When people are talking about the racism within white liberals, they're pointing out how easy it is for people to skirt social responsibility by applying a few hardly qualifying labels while upholding institutionalized racism at every SINGLE turn
And these politicians can gain power just as easily as Right Trumpers bc we the "respectable" people vote for them, but we turn a blind eye as we ourselves escape the outcomes, while they pass policies that further grind the separation between people and inherent rights
It is just as bad IF NOT worse, as we see illustrated now with Amy Klobachuah, the life and death repercussions of a "white liberal" - but there's no footage of her drunkenly yelling at some BBQers to "prove" it's "those types of people" who are the "real racists"
Only the stark reality of consequence and the violence of white supremacists actions under the banner of a "liberal" candidate
It's not to say Karen isn't racist it's to fuggin update how low we have sunk the bar for the threshold of racism
One of them is "safe" to criticize in liberal spaces and one of them is "oh you're nitpicking/he just didn't know back then/they apologized for that/but they're a good guy/that was normal at the time/we know them" but they both end in violence towards marginalized groups