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Chuka Umana posted:I was driving around southeastern Ohio over the weekend and holy cow it looks terrible. just endless miles of abandoned buildings punctuated by dollar general and fast food places. everything including the people look run down and miserable. the poverty is more visible in the countryside the structural and infrastructural design of cities tends to make it less obvious, with the poors hidden away in tiny rat-infested apartments behind historic building facades upscale suburbs tend to rely on zoning, code enforcement, and police action to quickly banish any visible sign of poverty. happiness is mandatory, citizen. put it all on your credit card, and we'll evict you the instant you hit your limit rural areas don't tend to have existing structures to hide the poverty, and being less dense and more sprawly means they tend to draw less of that NIMBY spirit, and they're a lot less likely to draw gentrifiers. sorry if this is undermining any plans to draw the thread to a "wealthy urban ivory tower leftists just don't understand the real poverty that only rural conservatives understand" tack!!!!!
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FactsAreUseless posted:"Cancel culture" sounds like some right-wing "political correctness" bullshit, it doesn't pass the smell test. Someone post the Fox News screenshots about it of which I assume there are many. yeah, p much. it's started as an extremely online far-right meme that's only lately been picked up by Fox. originally referred to celebrities getting fired for being racists or rapists, but its meaning expanded as it spread, so now it's p much just a mix of "political correctness" and "another shot fired in the leftist war to end conservative free speech" example usages: https://mobile.twitter.com/riordainn/status/1128416225556611074 https://mobile.twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1170097496841785344 https://mobile.twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1170160691711553542
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Finicums Wake posted:that's how it's usually used. but i did read an opinion piece by a genuine leftist that used the term, and usefully juxtaposed it with discursive/social practices rooted in restorative justice this is just the usual "instead of being mean to racists and rapists, why don't we try being nice to them and winning them over with love" stuff
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Ace of Baes posted:why are you lumping racists together with rapists? they are very different concepts lol because that's what the article is doing, and what the "cancel culture" whine in general usually does
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