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Jax@sh.itjust.works 4 days agoSuperstition is superstition - you can try to paint this as a class thing but ultimately ghosts aren’t fucking real. Seems like one part of the country gets that, the other doesn’t.
Where does JD Vance come from, again?
agent_nycto@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Funny you say that when you have an entire state run by Mormons.
Oooo people who tell ghost stories and urban legends are stupid but we’re smart with our magic underwear oooo
Jax@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I think all religion is superstition - if you actually read what I wrote you’d be able to put that together, but you think I’m being racist because you’re missing a few critical brain wrinkles.
agent_nycto@lemmy.world 3 days ago
No, it’s just that you’re uneducated.
The trope of the religious, ignorant hillbilly is not only based off of classism, but also racism. There was a lot of mixing of races and cultures in Appalachia, because a lot of people were poor and poor isolated people tend to work together, so a lot of those “ignorant and inpure” hill folk started, horror upon horror, interbreeding instead of keeping the races pure. That’s where you get groups like the Melungeon.
Of course, certain types of people, usually with white hoods in their closet, didn’t like that, (and the fact these folks tended to unionize and fight back) so they spent a good amount of time spreading a lot of bad rumors about dangerous, ignorant, backwards religious people living in Appalachia.
So you, a judgemental and ignorant person on the Internet, fell for a long standing KKK propaganda talking point.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Incorrect, superstition is always based in woo woo magical thinking/ religion. I’m not interested in whatever bullshit this is, you can keep your ‘education’ to yourself.