It’s become somewhat of a meme now when there is a story on crime, or other bad things happening in a city, people pipe up and say “That’s how it is in blue cities!” “This could only happen in a Democrat city!” However, I noticed they never say “… and that’s why only want to live in X” or “… that would never happen in Y”.

If living in “blue cities” are such a nightmare, where are all these Utopian “red cities” that people are apparently in favor of?

  • shalafi@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    As a middle-aged, white, gun nut in the South, I’m definitely not feeling that urban liberals want the best for me. I’m liberal to the left of Obama, many of us are! But social media tells me I’m a racist cunt who should die in a fire.

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      20 hours ago

      Did you vote for the racists and fascists? Vote for suspending human rights, kidnapping people off the streets with no due process? Current politics have really made me understand how much white privilege I have and this is the fullest time in my life that I’ve been “woke” enough to be grateful for my skin color. What is going on now is way beyond the pale.

      This is the first time that politics aren’t two slightly different positions where I can understand both, but one side is clearly anathema to everything we’ve ever professed as a country for the last 200 years.