It may seem like semantics, but it isn't that I think the right has racial tendencies. It's that I believe that of the times that race is used, particularly within a negative context, it tends to come more often from the Right. To qualify this, I am talking about media and politicians, not random people on the street.

Racism: a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.

Affirmative Action policies are predicated upon the fact that certain ethnicities in this country have less access to higher education than others, which serves to further reinforce the socioeconomic and education divides between them. The purpose of this policy is to prevent this reinforcement from being more entrenched. In that sense, it is actually the exact oppose of racism, by definition.

That said, I'm not a fan of Affirmative Education, but on utilitarian grounds. Studies show that the majority of non-white recipients of Affirmative Action are actually middle class, which means that the intended beneficiaries are still left out. It is for this reason that I would personally change affirmative action to be predicated upon socioeconomic status, not race.

Still, the attempts wouldn't be necessary if it wasn't for the fact that these people are already not receiving equal treatment for hiring and school admittance because of the color of their skin (and not based on individual merit and achievement). If everyone was being treated the same regardless of ethnicity, Affirmative Action wouldn't have been pushed for in the first place.

Acknowledging that problems revolving around ethnic identity exist is not itself racist. If you want to call that "racial tendencies" then that is fine, but there isn't anything inherently wrong with it.

If you want I can make a larger list, but I'll stick with a few current ones. The Republican front runner, Donald Trump, proposing to ban Muslims from entering the United States.

Now I know you are probably going to say "Muslim isn't a racist", but the problem is that screening done on Muslims and public perception of Muslims in the United States directly correlates with people who are ethnically Middle Eastern, despite the fact that they are actually a minority of Muslims. This was a direct, racist form of fear mongering.

There's also his comments on Mexican immigrants when he claimed that they were drug peddlers and rapists, despite the fact that Mexican immigrants are incredibly hard working and necessary for our economy.

I could also go with the primary Conservative news outlet, FOX. I could create a seemingly endless list of racism from FOX, but I'll go with the most glaring one: the "terrorist fist jab".

I could also go down the historic route, and point out that Conservatism was the ideological force behind the Confederacy's fight to maintain slavery, Jim Crowe Laws, etc.