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  Bear in mind, in the US at least, it has been the large federal government who needed to step in and force smaller state governments to not segregate, or to guarantee black voting rights, or forcing states to respect gay marriages. If you want to be anti-racist and protect LGBTQ rights, someone has to have the power to do that.
context: I also believe that governments should only get involved in the day-to-day life of its citizens when there is a direct threat to the populous, be it racism or any other type of damaging and dividing force.
  
  This caveat completely renders everything you said pointless. "Damaging and dividing forces" on the level of racism are ubiqitous. They're everywhere. If it's a legitimate function of government to combat them, then we necessarily must have an expansive, centralized government.