It’s funny, it is “the future” for them. Like it was a photoshoot or something of things to come. When in reality it was just a normal weekday in the likes of New York or London.
Whoever made this meme almost certainly doesn't live in the city so for them, it is a potential future if these ideals spread to rural areas of the country. Most of these rural people never leave their town, let alone state. And now they have the internet to broadcast their bigotry to the world. 30 years ago they would have never even known people like those in that picture existed.
Used to live in rural Oklahoma - long-ass time ago...
and it definitely felt like being trapped in a bad section of the 1950s for the first several years.
Then one night I was at the local bar and this dude enterd in the most amazing drag QUEEN full flow, and a CANDELABRA...
And I say dude because he had a full beard and mustache but his styling, make-up, gown, and shoes were full on Miss America.
Nobody even blinked.
And they let him light the candles.
Ran into him a few years later in the city - same deal - only comment I heard was the bartender walking up to him (with drink in hand) who said ~ Just remember you're not allowed to light those in here 'Ray' - And 'Ray' responded check it out, I got battery candles now!
People are people everywhere and just because an area is rural doesn't mean that it doesn't have guys like Ray.
I think this is what people misunderstand about hate, and mobs, and loudmouths on the internet.
Most people -rural or otherwise - are pretty much Live and Let Live.
But when we start categorizing people by ethnic background, or where they live, or what they do for a living and deciding that everyone who meets condition A must hold opinion B, that is also hate.
And it's not very difficult for that hate to spiral into ever-increasing divides, othering those who disagree and even coming to believe that the people with whom you disagree should be 're-educated', or put on a list, or locked up, or eradicated...
and when that spirals out of control you get Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
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u/FoxFireLyre Mar 14 '21
It’s funny, it is “the future” for them. Like it was a photoshoot or something of things to come. When in reality it was just a normal weekday in the likes of New York or London.