Pittsburgh's Xenophobia Towards Country Folks (Penn Hills, York: how much, schools, college)

[JoeP]

It's currently acceptable to bash white people in society right now, especially by self-loathing progressives.

What absolute bull s h i t.

[BarqCider]

Thanks a lot, HeavenWood:

I now got wagon wheel, cover by darius rucker stuck in my head :/

[ElijahAstin]

Originally Posted by BarqCider

Thanks a lot, HeavenWood:

I now got wagon wheel, cover by darius rucker stuck in my head :/

Up until now, I couldn't name a single Darius Rucker song.

Does that make me racist?

[ElijahAstin]

Originally Posted by JoeP

What absolute bull s h i t.

In fairness, it is socially acceptable to bash certain sub-classes of white people these days, "rednecks" being a prime example. While this does not even begin to compare to the continuous systematic discrimination suffered by discrete racial minorities in this country, it doesn't make ignorant statements about "hillbillies" any more right.

[Agbor]

I think this is strictly an issue of class...I find it culturally interesting how race and sex seem to have found its way into the
conversation...maybe because male homosexuality and people with coal-black melanin color evoke primordial responses in the American cultural psyche. These being the 2 core American hang-ups...

Making a class issue into a race and sex issue...bringing the UNRELATED TOPIC of Afro-Americans and male homosexuals into
this particular conversation..about people littering at a concert..so the bashing of a sub-set of people at a concert has been expanded to include all white people?

Everybody is a victim of some sort now...Pittsburgh is in NO POSITION to express Xenophobia toward country-folks
country as Pittsburgh can be...with its big small-town mentality..OK I will stop...

[sparrowmint]

My favourite thing about this thread is the apparent assumption that a similar percentage of rural people don't stereotype or think negatively about "city people." They do. Anyone who has been raised in the country who was being remotely honest would say the same thing. The rural/urban divide is a thing, and it exists pretty much everywhere. Human beings like to focus on divisions and make assumptions. Who knew.

[sparrowmint]

Originally Posted by HeavenWood

In fairness, it is socially acceptable to bash certain sub-classes of white people these days, "rednecks" being a prime example. While this does not even begin to compare to the continuous systematic discrimination suffered by discrete racial minorities in this country, it doesn't make ignorant statements about "hillbillies" any more right.

This is essentially classism, and it isn't based on their race.

[ElijahAstin]

Originally Posted by sparrowmint

This is essentially classism, and it isn't based on their race.

It's classism in connection with a race-based sub-culture. White rural poor to working class folks are seen in a different light than poor to working class rural dwellers of other races or, for that matter, poor to working class white people who inhabit cities or suburbs. If you say the word "redneck," most everyone thinks of white people.

But even if your statement is taken as a manifest truth, it doesn't make negative blanket statements about broad groups of people any less wrong.

[ElijahAstin]

Originally Posted by sparrowmint

My favourite thing about this thread is the apparent assumption that a similar percentage of rural people don't stereotype or think negatively about "city people." They do. Anyone who has been raised in the country who was being remotely honest would say the same thing. The rural/urban divide is a thing, and it exists pretty much everywhere. Human beings like to focus on divisions and make assumptions. Who knew.

I'm sure a lot of them do. That doesn't make either side right.

[Katarina Witt]

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