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  • I don’t think so much that cities attract left-leaning individuals as much as the people who live there tend to be (or become) left leaning.

    In rural communities you tend to get a lot of families who have lived in the area for a long time, and not much movement. So they tend to be more homogenous. Cities tend to attract lots of different people (and more tends to happen), so you’re gonna be exposed to a lot more and it will be harder to stay isolated.

    Another factor is the white flight that occured after ww2. Lots of cheap housing was put up outside cities, and lots of white families moved out to live in them (in some cases they didn’t even let black people buy houses in these developments). So you get a lot of conservative, white people moving out in the suburbs, leaving a lot of minorities who tend to be more liberal.







  • Julian@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlAaaand now she is being sued.
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    11 months ago

    So we should bully everyone about anything they have autonomy over? I should bully people for not filtering their water because it’s unhealthy? I should bully people for having a car because it’s bad for the environment?

    I mean it’s not discrimination but it’s definitely just a dick thing to do. You mentioned haircuts earlier - if someone gets a haircut they like you shouldn’t make fun of them for it. They chose to get the haircut. They know how it looks. They know what people think of that style of haircut. Chosing to laugh at them for that isn’t doing anything and is just rude.

    If you disagree with that I don’t think I have anything else to say. We just have completely different views.


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    11 months ago

    You’re saying we should be blatantly discriminatory to prevent subtle discrimination? How does that make any sense? It’s like saying people with racist thought should just say them instead of shutting up. Or an better example: should we make fun of visibly disabled people? I’m sure plenty of people have “natural thoughts” when they see someone like that, but you shouldn’t say anything because that’d be a horrible thing to do.

    Again, most overweight people know they’re overweight. They are already affected by it in their daily lives. They don’t need you to be a dick about it.


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    Your oversimplifying. I agree I don’t think being overweight should be necessarily seen as a good thing, but that’s still someone’s personal business. They may be trying to loose weight. They may have a medical condition or an addiction to food. They may just not have access to good, healthy food, or are uneducated about how to eat healthy in the first place. Making fun of them is useless at best and hurtful at worst, because chances are, they know they’re overweight. They don’t need you to point that out to them.

    Even if someone chooses to be overweight, making fun of them for it can still hurt others. By all means, say that it’s unhealthy and that it shouldn’t be normalized but don’t take it out on individuals, especially if you don’t know their situation.