On Being Midwestern: The Burden of Normality

Re:On Being Midwestern: The Burden of Normality by eli_gottlieb on Thursday November 16, 2017 @02:38PM (#15715804)

I don't think it's a proxy for racism. I think it's its own form of xenophobia. I don't care which one is the "white" truck, I care that someone's drawing major social distinctions on the difference between one truck and another.

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Re:On Being Midwestern: The Burden of Normality by stillsut on Thursday November 16, 2017 @04:30PM (#15716814)

Well if the truck is your work then obviously people are going to draw distinctions over it. Which operating system shows you're smart: Windows or Linux? Is it "xenophobic" to prefer linux people?

Also, Milton "ked" here. Of course I'd treat somebody from Milton differently, we share a whole unique culture which you clearly don't understand. You're the one being culturally ignorant: speaking of Milton and Medford as equivalent because of skin tone is the same as comparing a Sikh to Arab, cause you know, the funny hat and facial hair and stuff right?

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Re:On Being Midwestern: The Burden of Normality by eli_gottlieb on Thursday November 16, 2017 @04:35PM (#15716865)

>Also, Milton "ked" here. Of course I'd treat somebody from Milton differently, we share a whole unique culture which you clearly don't understand. You're the one being culturally ignorant: speaking of Milton and Medford as equivalent because of skin tone is the same as comparing a Sikh to Arab, cause you know, the funny hat and facial hair and stuff right?

My wife is from Milton. She has nothing but nasty things to say about its "whole unique culture" ;-).

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