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Southerner Logic Will Make You Lose All Hope - Rebel HQ (Original Post)
ItsjustMe
Mar 2022
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BlueSky3
(511 posts)1. People need to spend some time
in the South before making a sweeping generalization like this. Racism is not confined to southern states. Many people who are actively anti-racist are here, too.
CurtEastPoint
(18,641 posts)2. 72 years old, lived in NC and GA all my life. Don't lump us all together.
Turbineguy
(37,324 posts)3. Actually, it used to be
you'd hear a lot of good things about "the South".
soldierant
(6,857 posts)5. I seem to remember President Kennedy getting laughs when
he called Washington D.C a coty of "Southern efficiency and Northern charm." That wasn't how people expected the phrase to come out. And is was funny.
soldierant
(6,857 posts)4. I dount that Richard Ojeda would have let this get by.
He does a fair about of work for Rebel HQ and, I am sure, knows better.
The headline should have referenced "Racist Logic" without regard to place. Racism is everyehere, and everywhere, this is its logic.