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I’ll start:

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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[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Scotland is one of my hobby horses.

Now you’d think that they were a poor uwu wittle baby who were conquered instead of willingly joining in order to get more of that colonial pie as they spectacularly failed at establishing their own colonies. Scottish people have deluded themselves into thinking that they went through the same thing as the Irish rather than acting as the attack dogs of the English for the last 300 years, ironically also in Ireland. Being marginally less bad than the English is no great feat.

[–] Lemister@hexbear.net 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Usually its people conflating lowlands with highlands. Lowland scots are northumbrian anglo saxons who became part of the Kingdom of Scotland and therefore identify as such, but they arent celtic (well no more than northern english). While Highland Scots are the norse-celtic "victims of english oppression" (the oppression was done by lowlands scots in accord with "true" english officials)

Also there were "catholic english" migrants in Ireland that sided with the irish and got oppressed by england as well, while the scottish settlers in the north, well acted as settlers.

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[–] Lemister@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Btw Idaho used to have the largest percentage of mandarin speakers in the united states. Boise had a vibrant chinatown. Its absolute whiteness is a recent construction. (Ignoring all the natives besides)

[–] elderKettle@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Boise's chinatown was reincorporated (read: ghettoized) into a separate town government in 1967, in backlash to the growing Chinese population flipping a mayoral election the wrong way. The resulting Garden City is almost completely surrounded by Boise.

[–] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

You know what, autocorrect. Sometime in the last 5 years autocorrect on my phone started suggesting the dumbest shit. I can literally type out a full word that grammatically makes sense and autocorrect will replace it with some other bullshit.

[–] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Things that don’t get as much hate as they deserve I’ll start:

Idaho

The post is off to a strong start. I'll add Nebraska to it

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 day ago

all i know about nebraska is that it's where the corn is

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (11 children)

millenials are starting to get a good amount of hate

Bro people have always hated us, boomers hated us, now gen X and zoomers hate us lmao. We are cheesy as fuck nerds because advertising tried too hard to sell us "cool" when we were kids so when we hit our twenties we instead embraced being cringe as shit. Well, some of us did, the others became Ben Shapiro's.

gen z obviously gets all the “ugh what’s wrong with the youth

Which is funny because gen Z aren't even that young anymore but they do seem super obsessed with generational warfare

Anyway no, I'm not going to hate gen X because generational warfare is stupid and phases like 'gen -insert letter-' were just invented by marketing to categorise advertising demographics.

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[–] DinosaurThussy@hexbear.net 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Foster care. I don’t have a leftist analysis of this. Just a lot of personal experience and bitter hatred. It’s a violent ass institution that’s rife with abuse, racism, and class warfare

[–] ratboy@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think something like 65% of foster children end up homeless as adults if not more. I agree, it is totally fucked. Child Protective Services as well. I couldve been taken away from my mom when I was young... I lived a very traumatic childhood but who knows what the hell couldve happened to me if I was placed in foster care

[–] TheSpectreOfGay@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

CPS is also racist as shit. anecdotally, im white, so when they visited me they had no interest in even asking me if anything happened. then this black kid i knew growing up got taken from his mom for basically nothing (don't remember what it was exactly i met the guy years ago) and put in a shitty foster home where the lady running it was also racist

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[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Foster care and the welfare of and for the children need to be rebuilt from the ground up.

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[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Hey Soul Sister by Train

Absolute dogshit

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[–] TheSpectreOfGay@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago

okay i'll go with the first thing i thought of. people who gatekeep/fake claim other people's mental illnesses. especially if it's just behind official diagnosis (which is classism). doing that does so much harm to vulnerable people in service of trying to make it seem like people with your mental illness aren't "cringe" to weirdos who like eugenics

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago (4 children)

To be honest, MOST of the US is similar to Idaho. Most anywhere that isn't within an hour or so of a large city is a complete backwater filled with racist white assholes.

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[–] Sasuke@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago

home printers

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I will never forget doing a cross country road trip with my friend from Canada who had never been to the US, and as we cross the border from Idaho to Montana, and we're stopped at a light and he turns to me with a complete straight face and says, bewildered, "So Idaho is not a real place right?"

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[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago

Right wing politics: most overrated garbage one can imagine. This applies to leftists too. You don’t hate the right and everyone part of it nearly enough.

Hard agree on Idaho, though. As far as I’m concerned, any part of the US that isn’t Hawai’i or maybe some parts of NY and San Francisco are “the deep south” it’s all the same and none of this dogshit culture matters.

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