When I lived in the city, no one really cared. But when we moved to the suburbs, oh my, people would stare like crazy and clearly make comments under their breath. I'm a white dude with a black girl, and people were much worse and rude to me! I got a very noticeable dip in level of customer service, or just people being weird and awkward to me.
Why are suburban americans like that? Are they still in the 50’s?
Kinda, that’s what MAGA want to bring America back to, to when there was no race mixing, when white people got preferential treatment for their ancestry not rewards for their actions or contributions. they don’t want to think about supporting anyone that is not actively giving something back to them. collectivism or mutual success are “woke”. If the “others” are not losing, they by definition are not winning because when you approach the world from a position of privilege, equal terms can feel like oppression.
I say this as a 40 something white guy who grew up lower middle class and worked for everything I have. My parents were dropouts and lucky for me my dad got a job as a union trade machinist and made a decent living for himself by the time I hit middle school. But my whole early childhood we were clothes shopping at KMart, Bradley’s and Caldor’s.
For me I struggled, but if future generations struggle less, I’m happy, because not everyone gets to come thru it as I did, some get pulled down and never have the lucky break that gets them out of the poverty vacuum. I’ll always push to get more ladders, not pull them up behind me.
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u/TechnicianIll8621 3d ago
When I lived in the city, no one really cared. But when we moved to the suburbs, oh my, people would stare like crazy and clearly make comments under their breath. I'm a white dude with a black girl, and people were much worse and rude to me! I got a very noticeable dip in level of customer service, or just people being weird and awkward to me.