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Balrog0 posted...

The post is more expansive than you're saying it is my man. That's all. There is more context, but it's not pertinent to the topic.

What do you think I'm. reading into it?

from your first post:

like, the south is objectively terrible towards minorities and the poor, let's not pretend there is a parity here between the rest of the country and the south w/r/t poverty, unemployment, and prejudice

you're literally proving the point of the post.

it's disingenuous to say that any one region of the US is "worse" than any other when it comes to racism or poverty - the tension is more open in the South, but that doesn't mean it's worse, despite the stereotype often painted by people from other regions.

people from other regions often scapegoat the south while ignoring the problems that exist in their own region; if I may take a shit on Canada for a second here, this is a huge problem here - Canadians tend to look at Americans the way people from other regions of the US look at the south. Canada is saturated with news of shitty things happening in the US, and Canadians tend to have an unwarranted sense of superiority when it comes to related social issues.

Canada is racist. Canadian racism just doesn't look the same as US racism, because the two countries don't have identical histories. it's hypocritical to have this sense of superiority about social and economic issues when we struggle with those same things.

in the same way, it's hypocritical for other regions of the US to feel the sense of superiority that they often do in issues pertaining to the south - whether or not it's actually worse is besides the point, because those issues still exist elsewhere.
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