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I am not from small town America - but I think this attitude which is openly celebrated among many is sickening. Its the kind of rhetoric that leads people to b

• blamestross 7y ago
  My other option is to lie. My words are extreme because the reality is. On the surface they present it looks ok. Until you realize how it all works. "What will the neighbors think" is a question with survival implications there. There is a point where I have to decide if people who participate in the culture of fear and hate that is most of rural America are either evil, or mentally disabled. Neither let me speak kindly of the system that traps so many children in it.
• Dirlewanger 7y ago
  It is dangerous and very pathetic to see these opinions solely because the populace that is dying are mostly white. Though, this is what we asked for, and no one cared to stop it. It's obviously a massively multi-faceted problem, but one of the bigger parts is: along the way we lost the idea of what our local community is. We instead replaced it with social media, and listened/espoused the opinions of people on the other side of the country who had never lived outside of a city.
• traderjane 7y ago
  I interpret fears of white genocide as anxiety specifically about Latinos, and not blacks or Asians. Whether or not people espouse cruel language for rural white America, the Latinos are a <much> bigger than story than one of linguistic framing. People can change how they talk, but that doesn't really address the fear.