US Politics on Yik Yak | The left has a subgroup of people (mostly coastal elites) who look down on the lower working class for no reason. Southerners, farmers, blue collar workers, etc. They are the backbone of this country and they deserve all the respect they can get.

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The left has a subgroup of people (mostly coastal elites) who look down on the lower working class for no reason. Southerners, farmers, blue collar workers, etc. They are the backbone of this country and they deserve all the respect they can get.

Anonymous 1w

We need farmers, and many farmers are intelligent people. Same for blue collar workers, I’ve been one before. It’s miserable work, and I respect anyone who does it. That said, the religiosity and restrictive culture of the south TERRIFIES me and makes me fear for my freedom if it creeps up here. I want to keep southern ideas away from my region at all costs.

Anonymous 1w

Yeah there’s a lot of very classist urban lefties meanwhile I’m a leftist from Virginia trying to tell them to cut that shit out

Anonymous 1w

Probably because they tend to vote against their own best interests

Anonymous 1w

The biggest contradiction when I was younger that the group that always talked the most about the class struggle always seemed hell bent on putting me into a subjugated class and in ranking themselves above others in a higher class based off their alleged enlightened views. The conservatives never kicked me out of places for being “impure” of thought, race or otherwise. The liberals I knew did

Anonymous

#1 1w

That’s not what I am talking about. I’m more focused on the fact that they will formulate conclusions about individuals based on their labels. They over generalize and assume just because you are a farmer, you are stupid without even knowing the individual. I’ve noticed that many are black and white thinkers.

Anonymous

#4 1w

That being said I have a lot of criticisms of aspects of my own southern culture, and also as someone whose mom grew up on a small family farm which was priced out by industrial farming, I am very critical of the hero worship Americans have of many farmers. It’s a flawed industry.

Anonymous

#4 1w

And there is a legitimate point to the lack of education in many rural areas. But the takeaway there is that marginalized rural areas need better education access, not to be like shitty and bigoted about it.