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Trump shares racist image of the Obamas. White House says backlash is 'fake outrage'
(www.latimes.com)
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This.
Unlike the people I went to highschool with, I have been able to travel the world, back in highschool they all seem smart and cool to me, now they all sound like hateful stupid people. Stuck in their close minded deeply red and religious surroundings the propaganda did its work on them. It's like a horror film, they're completely different people it seems.
It breaks my heart, as there's no saving them.
What's funny is those people likely view you as the one that is twisted, or tainted, etc, especially if you also went away to go to a university.
I grew up in a similar area though I was spoiled by having parents (and friends of my parents) that had a much broader view than most of my neighbors and other school children.
I would mostly keep my thoughts to myself unless I knew the other peer rather well, since all that high-falutin' thinking and open mindedness was viewed as dangerously subversive by the local hicks.
But I remember going back to visit a few times during university and in the years shortly after completing university, and...it was always a trip to engage with some of these types again. They don't seem to have any awareness of how benighted they really are. I still see a few of them on Facebook when I peek in on it. It's so incredible how these people manage to remain so provincial even after the online world became a thing. I just don't get it. I was one of the cyberoptimist types in the early 90s that thought the information superhighway would illuminate these types, even if only a little bit. I think the exact opposite happened.
I worked with a guy, who grew up in the US Deep South. He told me he joined the marines after Sept 11, 2001 to (and this is the quote he used) to get revenge on, and kill the "ragheads" that attacked his country.
He told me the cure for his racist idiocy was going to Afghanistan and meeting the people there and discovering they're just normal people like the ones he knew back home and it wrecked (and fixed) his world view.
Honestly, I wish there was some kind of travel program that was required for all children/adolescents somehow. Or at least a well-funded option.
Something where virtually everyone travels outside the country. We could start slow, and maybe just have people travel even within the country at first. If you live in the burbs or in a rural area, you are sent into some metro areas (ideally multiple states), put up in hotels and taken to various things to be seen. If you live in the cities, same thing - you visit some deep rural areas and learn something about that area.
I grew up with people that were proud of the fact that they never lived outside the county, and had not even left the state. Their whole lives. And didn't really go into the cities within the state. They were just as provincial as you might imagine. They had all kinds of ideas about people in foreign lands, and within American cities, and within states (like California), but had never been there and didn't even have any kind of interest in learning more via books or documentaries, etc., even if travel was too cost prohibitive.
Oh they see me as all that Fox News has told them I am, and they behave like pack animals any view that doesn't fit in. It's kind of scary.
I too, enjoyed the brief period of the enlightenment and renaissance of the early days of the internet before it became weaponized. I even thought in 2007 the first iPhone was a true moment of change, I was right, but very very wrong at the same time.
Smartphones killed the internet we once thought possible.
And here we are like refugees in a tiny corner of the internet, trying to stay away from all the awful, yet still be connected.
I'm grateful I knew that fleeting world.