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The million-dollar question that it's all about is if the locals choose to be ignorant assholes or if they don't know better because of circumstances - multigen
by HarryHirsch 6y ago
The million-dollar question that it's all about is if the locals choose to be ignorant assholes or if they don't know better because of circumstances - multigenerational bad education and ready availability of Foxnews. You'd actually say that anyone who could moved away long ago, and it's only the dregs of society that are still there.
- jl2718 6y agoI think people living in hard situations develop all kinds of biases and tribalism out of necessity. Cosmopolitanism is a luxury good. If you can’t admit that you, with your own mind and morals, would act the same way in the same circumstances, that doesn’t seem any different than the bigotry you accuse ‘them’ of.
- HarryHirsch 6y agoWe have to disagree about the "necessity" of oppressing those who are not within your circle. Consider George Wallace, after whom streets are named in Alabama. As a young man he ran on a policy of good roads and schools, and when that didn't get him anywhere he changed strategy and had a long, successful career on a program of institutional racism. When you look at Alabama, giving the outgroup the helot treatment is either a way of life or a luxury good.