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Things that don’t get as much hate as they deserve (hexbear.net)

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Idaho - when people think “racism in the United States” their minds go to the Deep South. The Deep South is absolutely pretty bad, and there’s of course the whole history with the confederacy so it makes sense that’s what we think of, but Idaho is let off the hook way too much given that it’s a hotbed of Nazis and Christian nationalists trying to form a white ethnostate. Idaho needs to be more closely linked to virulent racism like the Deep South currently is. And tbh I’ve been to the Deep South, I like it down there, it’s actually pretty diverse in many areas, if I had to live there it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world. You couldn’t pay me to set foot in Idaho.

Gen X - look, if we’re gonna do generational warfare gen x needs a lot more hate. Sorry to any xers out there but boomers have been punching bags for a while, millenials are starting to get a good amount of hate, and they’ve always been made fun of for their Harry Potter and office love, tbh a lot of millennial shit is just considered cringe these days, gen z obviously gets all the “ugh what’s wrong with the youth” hate and this new media cycle has them being portrayed as pretty much the new hitler youth. Gen x needs to start getting some more hate, especially now with all these weird gen x venture capitalists influencing the trump admin trying to realize their vision of a neo fascist network state

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

Yeah, the main reason it gets me riled up is that the domestic aristocracy of Scotland, which is from the same group of people that make up and have made up the vast majority of Scottish people for centuries, are treated as foreign. It is an easy way to wash your hands of any sins, just pretend that you're part of the outgroup. It is a bit like Swedish people or Norwegians claiming they were opressed by identifying with the struggles that Sami people endure at their hand.

The same courtesy is rarely afforded the English who were also systematically cleared off land during the enclosures of the commons so it could be "better exploited" by land owners. England gets treated as a monolith despite there being many outgroups that were similarly persecuted by the state (Quakers, Romanichal, Irish Travellers, Lollards etc).