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I think you might have a bias in there as well then, because I got out of my small town, and I agree that very few make it out physically or culturally, and they are like black holes.
However I was never punished, or harassed. I had people make fun of me, question me, give me weird faces as to why I would want to leave, but never anything extreme like you're saying. I think you may represent the other extreme side.
Yeah, I do. I went to Harvard. There is a intense hatred of working-class small town people in places like that and the social class that dominates it.
The 'liberal/worldly' perspective is it's own intensely insular and smug/superior bias that sees anyone who can't afford to go on international vacations as inherently inferior and stupid to those who do.
I think the problem is that you went to Harvard. I get what you’re saying, but the non-elite don’t really care. We can’t afford international vacations and yacht clubs either. Don’t get me wrong, liberalism is its own disease, but you met it on a whole other level.
My beef with rural people has nothing to do with them being poor, and everything to do with their ongoing fascist temper tantrum.
I think rural culture should be generally marginalized and mocked until it stops doing fascism. Pretty simple tbh.