Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2056-2060; Nov. 14-18, 2011
Emperor Norton:
--- Quote from: musicalsoul on 18 Nov 2011, 10:52 ---Why does everyone always assume when there's a generally negative opinion coming from the general public, it just HAS TO BE from the south?
I mean I get it, we're the Bible Belt, we're ass backwards uneducated hicks who don't have running water and do nothing all day but shoot guns at them damn blacks and gays and we love to lynch people because dammit the south will rise again!
But really, that stereotype, it gets old. Ignorance like that is not just based in the southern part of the United States. And perhaps I'm being just a little bit too defensive at the moment, but the whole thing just riles me up because I grew up in a teeny-tiny town in Alabama, that actually ass backwards and I've lived in yet another teeny-tiny town that wasn't. And when I lived in Virginia, I found myself having to defend my old school basically saying "no, I'm not dumb because I'm from there, I'm actually ahead of where you guys are are right now) and now that I live here in Metro-Atlanta, I see a little bit of everything. Extreme open-mindedness, crazy vegans, crazy bible thumpers, and rednecks. Like I said, ignorance is not exclusive to the south, and I get so tired of having to prove to people I'm not an idiot just because I talk kind of slow and I say the word y'all.
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Thank you. I grew up and live in Athens, Georgia, and I get really tired of the stupid stereotype that I have to face just because of that. (PS: Athens, being a college town, is hugely liberal guys, its not hickville, stop thinking hickville is the only thing in the south, or that its exclusive to the south. Also, Atlanta is really diverse)
As for Hanners... she is probably just startled because she thinks she just time travelled to Arbor Day of 2003.
Truec:
--- Quote from: Emperor Norton on 18 Nov 2011, 12:52 ---
--- Quote from: musicalsoul on 18 Nov 2011, 10:52 ---Why does everyone always assume when there's a generally negative opinion coming from the general public, it just HAS TO BE from the south?
I mean I get it, we're the Bible Belt, we're ass backwards uneducated hicks who don't have running water and do nothing all day but shoot guns at them damn blacks and gays and we love to lynch people because dammit the south will rise again!
But really, that stereotype, it gets old. Ignorance like that is not just based in the southern part of the United States. And perhaps I'm being just a little bit too defensive at the moment, but the whole thing just riles me up because I grew up in a teeny-tiny town in Alabama, that actually ass backwards and I've lived in yet another teeny-tiny town that wasn't. And when I lived in Virginia, I found myself having to defend my old school basically saying "no, I'm not dumb because I'm from there, I'm actually ahead of where you guys are are right now) and now that I live here in Metro-Atlanta, I see a little bit of everything. Extreme open-mindedness, crazy vegans, crazy bible thumpers, and rednecks. Like I said, ignorance is not exclusive to the south, and I get so tired of having to prove to people I'm not an idiot just because I talk kind of slow and I say the word y'all.
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Thank you. I grew up and live in Athens, Georgia, and I get really tired of the stupid stereotype that I have to face just because of that. (PS: Athens, being a college town, is hugely liberal guys, its not hickville, stop thinking hickville is the only thing in the south, or that its exclusive to the south. Also, Atlanta is really diverse)
As for Hanners... she is probably just startled because she thinks she just time travelled to Arbor Day of 2003.
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As long as we're taking offense to things, can I take offense to the implication that if you aren't a college educated liberal, you're a stupid hick? Or is that meant to sum up the major political groups of the Amercan south?
Loki:
I have no idea if it works in America that way, but I was assuming that people are more open-minded because there are all kinds of people from all over the place moving there because it's a college town.
ChristineIrene:
It is getting way too personal in this week's comic discussion thread.
musicalsoul:
--- Quote from: Truec on 18 Nov 2011, 13:07 ---
As long as we're taking offense to things, can I take offense to the implication that if you aren't a college educated liberal, you're a stupid hick? Or is that meant to sum up the major political groups of the Amercan south?
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I don't think that was the intention of the "Athens is a college town we're liberal" comment. But then again, maybe it was, I can't actually say for sure. My original point was that the entire southern region of this country shouldn't be painted with such a wide brush. The stereotype, it bothers me, because it's one I've had to deal with my whole life and I may have been a little bit too defensive in my original post, but like I said, I just get riled up about it. And I personally don't think not having a college education and liberal views makes you a stupid hick. If that were the case, I couldn't have gone on my rant about how not everyone in the south is an uneducated hick. I'm a college drop-out and I'm moderate all the way down the board as far as my political views go.
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