I'm trying to fathom this being an actual conversation and not some horribly, awfully scripted sitcom. How the hell is it this bad good lord.
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“Lady,” the Trump supporter said. “You don’t know what a tattoo is.”
^ That line baffles me
For people like this, Tattoos are only tattoos if they're on a less than white skin. On a white skin it's a stulish body decoration, on any other skin type it's a gang tattoo
The conservative mindset is kind of like a reversed No True Scotsman sometimes. In an inherently hierarchical world where you are OBVIOUSLY at the A, #1, top, “Made in the image of white Jesus” tier, it is a serious insult to question the realness of another. Getting “othered” when you’re one of the Real Americans, one of the Chosen Ones, is a tragedy!
I don't know what you're talking about. What does that have to do with a guy who assumes women don't know what tattoos are?
It’s the exclusionary language. It sticks out to me because it’s something I had to wring out of my brain after a conservative upbringing. My comment was probably an overreaction, lol, but you gave me that little target to pounce on.
“You don’t know what a tattoo is” sounds to me like it’s in line with “you don’t know what a REAL tattoo is” or “you wouldn’t know a decent tattoo if it bit you on the ass.”
It’s just basic immature gatekeeping and “me good, you bad.” So it varies from actual exclusion to generic offhand insult.
I can hear all the variations of it in my head from over the years. You don’t like the same thing as me, or you disagree with me on some unrelated thing, therefore you don’t know a damn thing about tattoos, cars, trucks, guns, fishing, hunting, sports, women, computers, games, and whatever else.
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Next time one your friends insists that Trump voters are regretful, or somebody mentions Trump's poll numbers, show them this.
Someone needs to bring these people a holocaust surviver to show them their tattoo and explain why fascism should never rise again
I'm afraid it would just give them new ideas.
Someone needs to bring these people to cecot, and do a little swaparoo with the current residents.
Going to the midwest sounds like going to the zoo.
It's fucking insane here. I live in a city where people's opinions seem relatively reality-based, but if you get out into the rural areas, the effects of brain drain and media balkanization are on full display.
I don't suggest actually doing this, but you would be absolutely fucking shocked by the overwhelming ignorance of the general population if you were to, say, stop at a bar in rural Iowa.
I just don't recommend going to Iowa, avoid it at all cost.
Every day you hear someone say the stupidest shit you’ve ever heard in your life. And then the next day someone says something even dumber. It’s absolute hell on earth but the plus side is my mortgage is cheap as dirt I guess.
Live here, it is.
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