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Calling all (or at least most) rural dwellers bigots… ah, the irony.

• honkycat 5y ago
  We once had a black man come to one of our city council meetings to propose a new housing development near the school. He left after multiple people called him the n-word. My friends who were gay and came out in high school were harassed. It is out there. You just don't care.
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  • seneca 5y ago
    > It is out there. It is in the place you grew up. Projecting negative stereotypes onto people because they share a broad group with other people you had negative experiences with is stereotyping. > You just don't care. Less of this, please.
• bigbillheck 5y ago
  Of course not all of them are, and there's plenty of bigots in urban and suburban areas, but you start looking at voting patterns and it's hard not to conclude that the bigot density is a lot higher.
• ozzythecat 5y ago
  I grew up in the Midwest as a person of color. I specifically refuse to go back and am consider a $1.5MM home purchase only because of the bigotry and prejudice that I faced and my parents faced. My friends at school couldn’t come over because their parents weren’t comfortable with it. It is a problem, and it’s not that most rural dwellers are bigots but enough people are, and they’re the loudest in the room. Asking a person of color, lgbt, Muslim, etcz to live in rural white america is often a non starter.