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masterpug53 posted...

It's a not-so-subtle tactic to marginalize people that are deemed 'unimportant' in the grand scheme of things. Not only is it morally iffy, in the long run marginalization never works out nearly as well as its practitioners think it will.

I mean, it's been a thing nearly forever.

How many movies have you seen where "the wide eyed, optimistic country bumpkin goes to the big city to see how the world REALLY works," or "rural small town is evil/culty?" At their most generous, we get Doc Holiday nonsense where their "primitive charms" win over some city-slicker in some Dances with Wolves way, and those stories are hella problematic in and of themselves.

Then the media/hollywood goes full Surprised Pikachu when they hear that those areas tend to hate their guts.