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Originally Posted by GottaHerdOn
Because the media instills this in the minds of gullible people, who then chit chat with other bored and gullible people about how strangely different these "mountain people" are. I think people do it to reassure themselves that they are normal and that they are just like everyone else.
One of the quietest and still politically correct forms of racism.  |
Welp, GHO, hate to say this but not many outside know a thing about WV. Sad fact is I've heard worse things said about WV'ns by native born than anywhere outside these hills. Just last week I got quite an earful of badmouthing about WV males from a hairdresser born and raised in charleston. She couldn't help bragging on the epicenter of culture & progress- the life she had in
Atlanta years ago. Sometimes it takes more than a grain of salt listening to folks. Sometimes it takes a pillar.
Racism isn't PC no matter who is speaking about whom. Trend of anti- PC giving any loudmouth on jerry springer the stature of preaching gospel no matter how weak minded they are is the method by which our american culture devolved. They're only fishing for like minded idiots whether it's 'boo-rah' or 'hoot hoot'. There's no difference between slack jawed yokels and archie bunker. Choose a villain for everyone to fixate upon as group identity, control the information, repeat lies often enough... FOX news is just better funded & more consistent at mind control, but know that liberals are not blameless. The nature of trying to win an argument at any cost is a huge red flag when you mean to discern.
Whatever WV'ns want for themselves as individuals or as a state can only be accomplished by it's residents and not by some mystery savior. The worst poverty in america is being held up by christian charities on late night TV; the ozarks portion of appalachia, where children regularly starve, freeze to death, burdened with jobless uneducated parents. Somehow these children aren't obliged to attend school for lack of a road a bus can drive down. Home schooling & malnourishment will guarantee them another generation of the same.
Americans have a problem with that occurring in the land of plenty, so they'll make their pledges, and perhaps 30% of what's donated actually helps someone after 'administrative costs'. Here's the kicker- charity can often times exacerbate problems rather than solve the root causes. Charities and government programs that aren't in the business of enabling people to help themselves aren't much more than what you describe in your post... people wanting to feel superior to others via PC "charity". Sometimes it's ego pay off, sometimes it's a wholesale cottage industry to keep people needing THEM.
I took no issue with natives comparing appalachian whites to black folks. Both have been sold on victim mentality and have relinquished their own authority to self determine as a result. Might as well be drunken for life, a full time excuse to never try at anything hobbling every generation ahead physically and emotionally. Quite a devil's bargain. Others who didn't buy into it (and also don't appear on 6'o'clock news) build a life for themselves despite what's socially acceptable "victimhood". The adage 'You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink' applies.
Whatever criticism anyone might throw out there is moot if you're content with your choices. Whomever makes a hobby out of being miserable, they have the option of looking in the mirror at any point in their lives, but their ignorance isn't something I ever take personally. There's another WV I know beyond a hairdresser with a lousy attitude. Any other whiners insisting outsiders are the bane of their existence... if you'd quit whining, people wouldn't mistake it for a plea for charity.
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