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Friendly if you're the right political party and orientation, I hear.
by jimmaswell 7y ago
Friendly if you're the right political party and orientation, I hear.
- atlantacrackers 7y agoHave you ever visited? Talked to locals? You might be surprised how friendly people are IRL.
- munin 7y agoI lived in Dallas and it is the only place I've lived where people would scream homophobic slurs at me in the street. I wouldn't say I'd never move back, but the situation would have to be dire for me to consider it. Definitely cut your hair if you visit.
- bsagdiyev 7y agoThat's not unique to Texas, just assholes. I've seen it here in San Diego while walking through Hillcrest.
- munin 7y agoI dunno, 40 years of living in other places, stuff like this only happens in Texas and the South. There are definitely assholes in NY and Boston but they won't get up in my grill for "looking gay" on the street so that's pretty neat.
- bsagdiyev 7y agoI concede and won't argue with personal experience. It sucks that it is still a thing anywhere, hopefully we'll get there some day.
- scurvy 7y agoIt happened to me in Chicago, twice in one weekend. All I did was wear a pink shirt and walk down the street. That was enough to garner homophobic slurs. I'm not gay and when I mentioned it to one of my Chicago friends, and he just shrugged his shoulders and said, "Yeah." tl;dr jerks are everywhere
- ausjke 7y agoDallas is actually very liberal, it's a blue city, totally blue,
- Aloha 7y agoWhen did you move away? I've been visiting here on and off for a decade before I decided to move here, and I've never experienced this.
- megaframe 7y agoPeople can be friendly to your face and still vote for and support laws and political leaders who want you out of their area or worse. Look at how they fought gay marriage or how they treat Mexican-American's. There are pockets of safety in that state (Houston/Austin) but as a whole it's not that great. I lived a number of years in Idaho which has the same problem. I'm "OK" in Boise (even there things can happen) but I'm genuinely concerned for my safety when I have to drive anywhere else in that state.
- sojmq 7y agoFunny to hear that when we are comparing it to San Francisco. (Not trying to start a flame, I found this to be legitimately funny.)
- corodra 7y agoSeriously, Texans in the cities may be redneck compared to the rest of the country, but holy fucking shit are they friendly as hell. If you suck in social situations, you will find plenty of extroverts that will gladly make you feel included in a group of strangers.
- nthomas 7y agoIt really is best to come experience it in person. Yes, there's always stupid people doing stupid things anywhere and it's certainly a conservative state, but people are generally much more tolerant and intelligent than the stereotypes. The stereotypes are hilarious. I'm a computer scientist and spent 9 months at IBM's TJ Watson facility up in New York outside the city. Every person I contacted to rent a room from made a point to tell me that I'd have to leave my horse at home because they didn't have a stable. They uniformly were shocked in disbelief when I explained I owned no horses, no cowboy hat, no boots. The horror...
- Aloha 7y agoBut boots are great! ;-) As someone who lives in Fort Worth, I feel your pain, some folks do honestly seem to think that Texas is basically one big western still.
- Aloha 7y agoPeople here trend conservative. This cuts both ways, it means that they don't want to make a scene when they see something that offends their norms, but it also means that you have to try a little harder to open minds. The other ruling ethos here seems to be 'good fences, make good neighbors'.
- corodra 7y agoMight be the types of people I met in Texas, but I generally feel people are receptive to counter view points if you dont look down on them. I never had issues with debating people in Texas.
- refurb 7y agoSpoken like some who has never visited!
- jimmaswell 7y agobased off the experience of soem of the LGBT people from there who've talked about it on Discord servers I'm in. Some areas are better than others but even someone from Dallas in this thread experienced issues.
- stjohnswarts 7y agoYou don't know anything at all about Texas if you think that. All of Texas' large cities lean liberal.
- cmdshiftf4 7y ago>Friendly if you're the right political party and orientation, I hear. Yes, it's conservatives who have done and continue to do the following: - Attacked people in the streets over a hat they've chosen to wear. A hat merely supporting the nation's elected President. - Deplatformed, or had banned from even attending non-political events, for wearing the same hat at an entirely irrelevant place and time. - Cornered or essentially kidnapped college professors, and then continuing on to destroy their careers, for expressing views not even contrary to their own but merely in light conflict with it. - Started trending topics on social media lamenting a desire to kill an entire demographic of people based on their race and gender, or denouncing a race or gender as "trash". - Held marches in prominent cities calling for cops to be shot. - Attacked journalists from the "opposite" side for merely being at events to report on them. etc. etc. Long story short, I would wager that your typical radfem socialist type, adhering to the stereotypical dress attire and appearance choices, would be a magnitude of order more safe and welcomed walking down a street, or attending a university, in a major Texan city than a conservative with a MAGA hat, or similar stereotypical signal, in a liberal city.
- dang 7y agoPlease don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. The GP comment was flamebait, but this comment is the bursting into flames that we're trying to avoid here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- cmdshiftf4 7y agoFair enough. You can delete my original post if you so wish.