The prejudice views on American Southerners should not be tolerated

[HomokHarcos]

People from the Southern United States are often treated as acceptable targets. I hate all kinds of stereotypes about them from being racist, overly religious and gun loving. Slurs such as "hillbilly" and "redneck" are often used. The thing that bothers me is that it's often just accepted.

 

[Joeytj]

Stephen Colbert is a Southerner and nobody thinks he's a hillbilly or redneck. Or Bill Clinton. Or Andrew Gillium. Or Stacey Abrams. Or Doug Jones.

Or do you mean that people that act like stereotypical Southerners are treated like stereotypical Southerners?

 

[Ponn]

You really want to do this today of all days?

 

[Aurongel]

Citation needed.

 

[faceless]

joke thread?

 

[Advance.Wars.Sgt.]

Back in my day trolling meant something.

 

[Bakercat]

Yeah, it's a little overused honestly. I live in rural Kentucky, and yeah most support republicans, but most are also good people who focus more on their work and family than stay in politics all day. Focus on the ones being hateful shitheads, not blame everyone in society.

 

[Cyanity]

This is a pretty bad troll thread, OP

 

[AoM]

Pre-Trump, I'd agree.

But post-Trump, as a southerner myself, let loose with the stereotypes.

 

[Bramblebutt]

have you tried not electing racist, overly religious, gun fetishising crazy people to represent you on the national stage

 

[Jag]

People from the Southern United States are often treated as acceptable targets. I hate all kinds of stereotypes about them from being racist, overly religious and gun loving. Slurs such as "hillbilly" and "redneck" are often used. The thing that bothers me is that it's often just accepted.

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I live in Florida, man. I don't take offense when people post Florida man shit. I know that isn't me, but the fucking idiots I see everyday.

 

[Puck Beaverton]

The south has always been mocked

 

[Bloodbathnbyond]

Well how about taking down all the signs permeating the south claiming you are going to hell if you are gay, have had an abortion, are not Christian, etc?

 

[Deleted member 17658]

You sure you wanna die on this hill?

Stephen Colbert is a Southerner and nobody thinks he's a hillbilly or redneck. Or Bill Clinton. Or Andrew Gillium. Or Stacey Abrams. Or Doug Jones.

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All raised southerners who you cannot look at and call a hillbilly or a redneck... hmm I wonder why...

 

[Jombie]

I'm from Alabama and it's true that most people don't look like extras from Deliverance, but that doesn't mean they don't have some nasty, backwards ass views. The south is ultra religious and conservative, that's just a fact.

 

[Fat4all]

the real victims

 

[Jebusman]

Jim Crow laws were a thing. The stereotype was earned.

 

[Kyra]

No-one does this. Deplorables get targeted before asking what region of the country they are from.

 

[Aviator Irelia]

Not All White People

 

[sredgrin]

Doing no favors for yourself when you think something like hillbilly is a 'slur'.

 

[Fat4all]

Doing no favors for yourself when you think something like hillbilly is a 'slur'.

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how dare you

in this home you call me hillwilliam

 

[makonero]

I thought "redneck" was a sign of pride these days to these folks?

 

[Strike]

 

[Necromanti]

If anything, people have been too lenient.

 

[Shroki]

Pre-judging a southern individual would be wrong.

Talking in general terms about the garbage fire that is the American south? Not so much.

 

[Bandage]

I was born in Texas. A lot of my family is from the south.


Fuck most southerners. So many actively push to make their own lives worse just to hurt minorities a little.

 

[Gleethor]

It's not that I completely disagree with you, it's just I can't believe that this is a priority for you right now.

 

[uzipukki]

Lol.

 

[John Dunbar]

the south will rise again.

 

[Razmos]

You are more upset about southerners being labelled as gun toting idiots than the southerners who are gun toting idiots?

 

[Fat4all]

they say "the south will rise again", but how can the south rise if its physically below the north?

will "the south" stop being "the south" at that point?

 

[IggyChooChoo]

White southerners wouldn't get such a bad rap if the majority didn't support white supremacist policies for the last 500 years.

 

[signal]

People do seem to judge anyone with a southern accent I guess.

 

[Anti]

I see all Americans the same.

 

[Dominuece]

As a person born and raised in the south, fuck the south. Hate going back.

 

[TaleSpun]

Slurs such as "hillbilly" and "redneck" are often used.

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Fuck off with this. They're not "slurs".

 

[Jombie]

There's still lingering resentment over civil rights.

 

[King Alamat]

I've lived my entire life in the South. It's fully deserved.

 

[HomokHarcos]

You are more upset about southerners being labelled as gun toting idiots than the southerners who are gun toting idiots?

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Yes, it's not any better than Arabs being labelled as fanatical Islamists.

 

[Doober]

I'm from a small town outside of Houston. This region is FULL of ignorant, arrogant, hick-assed rednecks that form the vanguard of Trumpism. They've fucking earned the stereotype. Hell, most are proud of it.

 

[Deleted member 17658]

I thought "redneck" was a sign of pride these days to these folks?

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It is usually

 

[International Iron Man]

Yeah, it's a little overused honestly. I live in rural Kentucky, and yeah most support republicans, but most are also good people who focus more on their work and family than stay in politics all day. Focus on the ones being hateful shitheads, not blame everyone in society.

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They enable and share 98% of the beliefs with the hateful shitheads and give them a nod and a wink when the shitheads get to being racist and sexist. Fuck them too.

 

[Zaheer]

People from the Southern United States are often treated as acceptable targets. I hate all kinds of stereotypes about them from being racist, overly religious and gun loving. Slurs such as "hillbilly" and "redneck" are often used. The thing that bothers me is that it's often just accepted.

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You must not have lived in the south for very long.

 

[Adnor]

Yes, it's not any better than Arabs being labelled as fanatical Islamists.

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Holy shit.

 

[Deleted member 7082]

I live in the south and I'll talk about rednecks and hillbillies when and how I want.

 

[Falconbox]

Fuck off with this. They're not "slurs".

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I mean, they are. Not racial or sexist, but regional.

Redneck is a derogatory term chiefly but not exclusively applied to white Americans perceived to be crass and unsophisticated, closely associated with rural whites of the Southern United States.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck

 

[jwhit28]

The only problem with these generalizations are that they leave a lot of people blind to others in their same state that think just like a stereotypical good ol' boy. It's more about rural vs urban. That's why people are flying confederate flags in New England.

 

[Deleted member 32561]

Troll thread or someone who genuinely doesn't understand the concept of institutional bigotry vs. individual prejudice?

Pre-Trump, I'd agree.

But post-Trump, as a southerner myself, let loose with the stereotypes.

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[HomokHarcos]

Holy shit.

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Labeling Southerners as gun-loving Christian fanatics is not alright.

 

[acheron_xl]

There are very fine people in the south.