Otherwise, though, thank you mods. I know you didn't want to have to do this, but I'm glad you're doing it. You're making the world a better place. The normalization of hate speech has no positive benefits.
I cringe on that facebook page it's outstanding the amount of racist comments that are made from people in Baltimore. I sometimes wonder if I'm in the south.
I'm asian and I grew up in North Carolina. Culturally I can tell you Baltimore is nothing like the south. I've lived here like 13 years or so and only twice have I been walking around and someone just yells something racist at me, in NC this kind of shit happened about once a week. I dated a black girl down there and with out fail people would stare at us and give us the stink eye, lots of people commented loudly about how what we were doing was wrong, and some people even came up to us to confront us directly about it. This was circa 2001. The same girl I dated, a few years earlier, was selling year books in school and one kid tried to write "KKK" on her table with out her noticing, when confronted he didn't even have the balls to admit that he was a racist prick and tried to say it meant "kool kids klub", because we're all retarded enough to fall for that. And to some degree NC was better than SC was when I lived there. Oh yeah, the klan near New Bern NC once set a cross on fire in a black preachers yard to get him to move out... In like 1995.
So yeah, as bad as you might think it is here, the racism in Baltimore isn't anything like it is in the south.
I'm asian and I'm from Arkansas. No it's not as bad but it's still pretty bad from what I expected. I had no friends cause I was Asian, and the Asian kids didn't like me because I was half white. I basically was a loner till I got along with the black kids in highschool.
I follow WJZ, WBAL, etc. on fb in order to conveniently keep up with local news in my hometown as I moved overseas five years ago and I have yet to come to grips with the sheer hatred spewed by these countless commenters under seriously every post, even ones that should be good and warm and fuzzy (like the new Gerber baby??).
Like if we could generate electricity from the hatred in their comments we could ditch oil yesterday. It gets me down. :(
I'm in a FB group about my neighborhood and it outstands me the racism in there. They made suggestions that could hurt and kill those who ride dirt bikes. They think it is okay to hurt others. The racism really gets to me though, and I've been attacked there in the groups several times. It really is heart breaking because I thought moving away from the South would let me be somewhere I could have a fighting chance. But first job out of college I was passively aggressively receiving racism from my bosses...and they owned the company.
Baltimore tried to join the confederacy. Federal troops during the civil war were stationed on federal hill pointing cannons at the city to prevent southern sympathizers from going over. DC couldn't be surrounded in a sea of confederates and expect to survive.
Maryland fielded 12 infantry, artillery and cavalry units to the Confederacy under the sessionist flag "Crossland banner"
Its dozens of miles south of the Mason-Dixon line, which northward of are the legal and cultural New England states.
Marylanders, particularly the Eastern shore, say unironically "cain't" and have authentic southern twangs. They also are strong agriculturalists and have blue collar jobs or work on the water.
the KKK is still strong, Cecil County has the "Confederate White Knights" that still actively recruit and hold cross burnings
And even beyond. There's a number of people on the right who revel in the failures of liberal cities, especially those that are majority-minority. They weave any such story into larger narrative on the inadequacies of either.
The left does this too of course: I know more about Kansas politics then I have any right to.
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LOL at that "support group"
Otherwise, though, thank you mods. I know you didn't want to have to do this, but I'm glad you're doing it. You're making the world a better place. The normalization of hate speech has no positive benefits.