Seriously, if you think poor, white, rural folk had the money to fly and drive to Charlottesville, pay for lodging and food and all other expenses to attend a Nazi rally, i don’t know what to tell you
These folk are probably professionals in cushy positions, business owners or public employees.
I mean you don’t have to necessarily do anything but pay for gas and you’re forgetting how damn small that part of the country is. yes a lot of them are not poor but a lot of them are probably poor because the white working class in the south (and all over) is also full of racists.
I’m sure there were lots of folk there from the South, but i’ve seen tweets and reports that people came in from across the country. I think the narrative that this is a poor, working class phenomenon is misleading and a really great recruiting tool so i’m not buying it
People fixate on poor rural whites when’s there’s been evidence of klansmen/Nazis infiltrating the police/congress/etc. I’ve met plenty of white supremacists with nice clothes and money in college who for whatever reason feel oppressed
First reply is also bullshit. Have you ever driven through Virginia? It takes 5+ hours to drive through it the shortest way possible north to south. And to the rural west, mountains, farms, what have you, the roads are still garbage. I can guarantee you that these people are middle and upper class and very likely from all around. Even IF they were just from Virginia, this commonwealth is called the “great suburban state” for a reason. The entire northern half or more is taken over by masses of suburbs and exurbs, gated communities are a staple. This is the part of the U.S. that is the upper and upper-middle. People who live rural here probably are farmers or don’t have any time or money to care, let alone use their leisure to hate others. The stereotype that ignorance comes from rural areas is so harmful because it ruins the understanding that hate is something that is TAUGHT.
This is quite a shocker. I didn’t think it could get worse ,but it did.
Wow
Yikes
This makes me wonder, and reminds me of something we call “Shroedinger’s Immigrant” back here in my country – if black people are getting college for free, how are they all uneducated and getting jobs while being unqualified? I mean, they got college for free???
I recently saw a pain scale with the caption “if you can still talk, your not at a nine” and it really really bothered me. One of my doctors (who works extensively with teenagers with CRPS) said that one common theme he sees in his patients is a complete lack of reaction to pain. He told me that when he performs procedures and tests that are objectively extremely painful, often the teenagers will be smiling and cracking jokes, even though he knows that they are in excruciating pain. At nine I can carry on a conversation (not very well, because at this point things start to get really cloudy for me, but still a conversation). During my nerve conduction study (If you’ve ever had one you know how awful it is, and if you haven’t, it involves a six inch long eighteen gage needle stabbed deep into your muscles over and over while you clench and relax them as instructed.) i chatted with the nurse and played games on my phone. It wasn’t that I wasn’t in pain, it was just I was also outside of it. For teenagers with chronic pain a disassociation from themselves and their bodies is common, even expected. If I “grounded myself”, saw myself as In my body and of my body and nothing else I don’t know how I would survive. In order to live, to get out of bed or wash my hair or put on pants I have to separate ME from my body. It’s how I can pop my shoulder out of socket and put it back in during a conversation. It’s a matter of survival. And I’m tired of people saying that my pain isn’t real or valid because of it.
people say “if you don’t lower your standards, you’re gonna end up spending your whole life alone!” like being a healthy, happy, financially independent single adult is actually worse than being stuck in an abusive and/or emotionally unfulfilling relationship with someone who isn’t willing/able to meet your needs. like no offense, but I think I’m gonna choose to be happy rather than throwing myself into a relationship just for the sake of being in a relationship.
I always hated how people associate “single” with “alone” too, like just because you aren’t dating doesn’t mean you are alone. No one should feel like they have to date a shitty person to avoid loneliness. There are other healthier ways to feel less alone.
“Don’t call Trump supporters nazis, it hurts their feelings.”
Yes, this is real (link to tweet). Yes, Tucker Carlson is literally repeating Nazi propaganda that aided the genocide of the Romani during the Holocaust. Yes, I am furious.
(Also, although there is a large population of Romani in Romania, they aren’t indigenous to Romania. They’re a diasporic group originally from northern India.)
Romani and Jewish have been screaming at the top of their lungs for years about neo-fascism in Europe, and Americans were totally aloof.
Then neo-fascism reared its head in America, but Roma and Jews were left out of the conversation in terms of people being impacted, because our oppression was “over.”
Now Tucker Carlson is on live TV using slurs and Nazi propaganda about Romani people, and I’m 90% most people on the left are just going to ignore it.
George Eli went on w him to try and defend our people and he just spewed more of the same shit. I’m honestly afraid now. I’m afraid to exist.
This is fucking terrifying..
We’ve been in Pennsylvania for generations! My family settled there in 1917 for fuck’s sake!
Most of us live in the fucking country! We kill chickens because WE RAISE THEM FOR MEAT! My aunts also have “mysterious” stakes in the ground for training their fucking peas! We leave you people alone, what more do you want!
I’m so sick of this shit. White people take our names to put on their shitty homemade bathbombs and candles, they steal our art for their aesthetic, they take the clothes off or backs to be ~bohemian gypsy chic~ but the still fucking hate us!
I’m crying about this and I pass! What about my aunts and uncles and my mother who still dress traditionally, who still raise animals, who still migrate for work, who are still brown?! Fuck
A reminder to all of the mentally ill kids seeking treatment and other people new to the psych system:
If you absolutely hate going to your therapist, you have the wrong therapist
If you feel like your therapist doesn’t understand you, has misdiagnosed you, or is focusing on the wrong things, you have the wrong therapist
If your therapist is too old to understand the things you’re going through, like cyberbullying or LGBT related issues, you have the wrong therapist
If you feel like therapy isn’t working for you, YOU HAVE THE WRONG THERAPIST!
I went through five therapists before finding mine. FIVE. Sometimes it takes a while to find someone who works for you, but you do NOT have to be stuck with a therapist you don’t enjoy seeing or you don’t feel is helping you!
Also even if you like your therapist, if you feel their method is not helping you, talk to them about it! They may be able to find you someone with a different method that can help you more. I’ve had 3 different therapists and none of them were bad or wrong they just each had a different style of therapy and one worked better for me than the others.
I think even people who have been in the psych system for years need to be told this, because a lot of people feel trapped. They feel obligated to stick with the one they have or they feel all therapists are the same. (And of course after years of experience, a lot of people can end up with a lot of therapists that are bad in the same ways.)
And, unfortunately, a lot of people are trapped. Thanks to long wait lists. Thanks to therapists not taking their insurance. Thanks to not having much variety in their area. If this happens, you need to way if the therapy you’re in is hurting more than it’s helping and make a decision based on whether you think no therapy would be better than what you’re dealing with.
I’d also like to point out age rarely has anything to do with how much they understand a topic. The best therapists are willing to listen and learn, and being younger doesn’t mean they understand the shit you’re going through. A cishet 20 something whose never faced cyberbullying isn’t necessarily going to be better on those topics than someone in their 50s, especially if the one in their 50s is more open to listening to what’s going on in your life. And *especially* since lgbt+ middle aged people exist.
My best therapist was middle aged, but he actually listened to the shit I was dealing with and asked me to clarify things he didn’t understand. My case manager is in her 40s and is similar. But I’ve dealt with plenty of mental health professionals closer to my age that dismissed things because they didn’t fit their idea of how things work. Because they’re not poor, because they’re not bi, because they’re not disabled.
So willingness to listen is way more important in how much someone’s going to understand what you’re talking about. If you feel more comfy with a younger therapist than an older one, that’s fine, but don’t automatically assume that an older one is going to not get where you’re coming from and that a younger one is.
I’ve been thinking about the pathological classification of asexuality, and why I find that so creepy, ever since I replied to this post.
It’s the idea, I think, that if you’re not, on some level, sexually (or romantically) available to fulfill someone else’s desires.
It’s best, of course, if you make yourself available in the right way to the
right sorts of people. But if you’re not making yourself available to anybody, then there must be something wrong with you
…
And that’s just …
No.
*(Meanwhile, sexual people who choose to be celibate trading sexual relationships with humans for a relationship with something bigger – often God, but it might be some other ideal. So that’s “okay,”).
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