kcdodger said: @kcdodger I’m not caping for the stupid fuck either. Reread. Honestly, if he’s from Ohio, that should make it even more apparent, the fact that they’re using southern stereotypes in a derogotory way. They’re treating these behaviors, traditions, and ways of being as inherently backwards. They talked about, “Extracting a Banjo” to rescue him. Rescue him from what? Obviously it’s a satire piece and I must state that I understand this – but you need to understand something. Why is it that we use southern stereotypes to make fun of JD Vance? Things that don’t even apply to him? That he has no claim to? Do you honestly not get it?
kcdodger said: @gobbledy-gluk-gluk I’m so glad that invalidates everything I said! I don’t care where JD Vance is from.
kcdodger said: This is pretty disgusting, Onion. JD Vance is absolutely a menace and deserves mockery, the entire Right Wing does. However, it isn’t really… okay. To just cast southern traditions and stereotypes as “Medical concerns”. Mountain Dancing, Hog Chasing, Banjo playing, there’s nothing wrong with any of that. But y’all are happy to use it to other and dehumanize someone – and you need to recognize that shit’s classist and perpetuates the bizarre North/South divide that does nothing but divide our nation. It isn’t helpful, it isn’t good, and honestly it’s not even very funny. Framing this as “regression” and “Needing treatment” tacitly implies that to do any of this is backwards and wrong and needs correction. This just contributes further towards making southerners dig in their heels – but it feels like y’all really do not give a damn ‘cause you’ve already written them off as, “Good for nothing inbred racist hillbillies”. As always. Despite the fact that the southern US is not a monolith of hate. Maybe if we didn’t contribute to the mindset that right wingers own these things, that it is simply a part of our nation’s culture that all can do – and should be able to do without shame – we’d be able to have a little more southern support. But we’re not about that are we?
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