They are suffering from the degrading material conditions of capitalism and attributing the progress of other groups as the cause. That's it for most of them. And that's being fed to them by Media all day long. It's not much more complicated than that.

Most aren't married to racist or xenophobic beliefs. Often times you don't need to even address those beliefs directly. It is much easier to direct their anger at their boss. Everyone has a boss that is fucking them over.

It's why I'm never gonna have a pointless conversation about trans rights with my coworker when he starts talking about "men in women's sports". I'm gonna say "yeah, I don't know about all that and I really don't care. I care more about what they're doing to labor rights. You know are boss can do x,y,z".

I DO care about trans rights. But he doesn't. I'm not trying to be his friend. I'm just trying to redirect his anger. That's really the best I can do.

I'm not saying we don't need to address existing structures of inequality. But that trying to first "change the mind of a racist" and only then redirect their anger into class solidarity is the wrong path. At least when you're just talking to some transphobic coworker.

The anger needs to be redirected first. It is significantly easier to address racism and xenophobia when they are no longer the scapegoat for the material problems all of the working class are facing.