(((Digimon Is Forever)))

“What are you?” “Where are you from?” “No, I mean where are your parents from?” “I mean what’s your ethnicity?”

Well, you could’ve just asked that in the first place.

basically the tl;dr of that is it’s extremely easy for people to picture and dismiss rural communities as white, straight, cis, and dumb, racist, homophobic, anti-environment, incapable of change, and the “enemy” of progress, because tweeting shit like “just cut off the southern states,” or “why do we let states who can’t read vote lol” is a WHOLE lot easier than observing and admitting to the bigotry, violence, and environmental havoc being wrought in your cute neighborhood with a good school system and an organic grocery store.

It’s scary to know the problem is everywhere, that in a lineup, every other person could be part of a bigger issue that needs to be unpacked an addressed. It’s scary to accept that it’s going to take a lot of work to fix things.

So you identified the problem. It’s those dumb poor people out in the country. Now you just need to assign them damnable qualities that make them inherently deserving of your ire. “Racism” works if you can ignore all the people of color living here. “Homophobia” works if you forget about all the gay people here too. How about “uneducated.” Ignore how access to education is a privilege, not a choice we’re denying. On and on.

Do whatever it takes to make hating us the moral high ground. Don’t think about it.