Feel this. Live in a really rural community. People I work with are ok but I have to commute 30 minutes south and most of them commute 15 minutes north froma a city.
When people ask me why I don’t do more to organize in my community it’s because if you get more than like 3 of the average people from around her together they’ll just start telling each other jokes where the punchline is a slur and then start talking about how minorities (none of which live within 30 miles of them) have it so easy compared to middle aged white men. Then talk about how the democrats are going to make it illegal to eat hamburgers and they’re going to take away your boot jacks.
My circle of acquaintances are basically the only decent people in town and I do volunteer where I can but it’s pretty disheartening to be working at a meal site, give somebody their food and they respond “hopefully Trump wins because if that commie Biden wins he’ll give all this food away to a bunch of slurs who don’t want to work.”
Feel this. Live in a really rural community. People I work with are ok but I have to commute 30 minutes south and most of them commute 15 minutes north froma a city.
When people ask me why I don’t do more to organize in my community it’s because if you get more than like 3 of the average people from around her together they’ll just start telling each other jokes where the punchline is a slur and then start talking about how minorities (none of which live within 30 miles of them) have it so easy compared to middle aged white men. Then talk about how the democrats are going to make it illegal to eat hamburgers and they’re going to take away your boot jacks.
My circle of acquaintances are basically the only decent people in town and I do volunteer where I can but it’s pretty disheartening to be working at a meal site, give somebody their food and they respond “hopefully Trump wins because if that commie Biden wins he’ll give all this food away to a bunch of slurs who don’t want to work.”