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Cracked - How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind (www.cracked.com)
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[–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm very surprised cracked has released an original article at all.

But I feel the author has drastically missed the mark. Summarized near the end with

"Already some of you have gotten angry, feeling this gut-level revulsion at any attempt to excuse or even understand these people. After all, they're hardly people, right? Aren't they just a mass of ignorant, rageful, crude, cursing, spitting subhumans?

Gee, I hope not. I have to hug a bunch of them at Thanksgiving"

Didn't they just spend the entire article justifying why the red non-urban areas feel that way towards the blue areas?

I feel the cities would welcome people from the country side, while you can't spend 1 day in a country town without being "from one of the big cities, and you should go back to it" (from experience, as a child)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Well for one, this isn't newly released: this is from 2016.

    But to address your point, the reason it isn't hypocritical is because (like he said in the article) power and culture and conventional wisdom flows from the cities. It's the difference between punching up and punching down. Yes, rural people often have shit attitudes about cities, but it is culturally nearly homogenous to have negative opinions about rural people. The amount of people and the weight of the opinions they hold are not even close to balanced. Plus, and this is the more important bit: it's not just their shitty attitudes. They also have, as he outlines in the article, legitimate complaints and cries for help that we wrap up with their shitty opinions and ignore. It's not helpful.

    I liked this article when it came out, and I still like it. I too moved from an area just like his to the city, and I couldn't agree with his points more. I have friends that have spent their whole lives in cities that continually miss the mark on this stuff because they have no concept of what rural people are like or actually think.

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