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I probably break a lot of stereotypes, or maybe I don't?
I'm a woke leftist who grew up "poor" (United States) in a rural farm area, yet I wasn't a farmer, and had two college educated parents.
My roots are redneck, I grew up eating hunted game and surrounded by corn fields and forests.
I watch Democrats where I live now mock rural people, which is a shame. You should mock their bigotry and their stupid ideas, but you shouldn't mock their existence or scorn all things rural.
These people are the downtrodden workers we're supposed to stand for, they just need to be reached with the right messaging to break the chains of decades of propaganda and education, but no one really seems to want to do that.
I've always been a misfit, didn't fit in with the red necks, but I don't fit in with the cultured people, I guess I am the intersection of two borderzones of American culture, and it kind of fucking sucks.
People make tons of assumptions about me from first glance, but I don't even know where I fall on half of the scales of sexuality and gender, I'm just me - I like to dance, I like good music, I to look at beautiful versions of the human form.
Thanks for reading.
you sound like you belong in one of those leftist small cities they have in the midwest.
the coastal elite leftists would eat you alive. they hate poor people more than anything else.
Yeah I live amongst a lot of coastal elites, they don't get it at all.
Spouse and I have Michigan as one of our five year plan possibilities!
i went to Harvard and i come from a poor family that is uneducated.
I've regularly had interactions where I was told I should kill myself my entire adult life but supremely bitter rich kids who are super angry I'm smarter/more driven than they are. basically only made friends with international students because they didn't care about how rich my parents were.
But I like living in a big city, so I just suck it up. There are no people like me here. They all got priced out, but I make enough to afford it and I 'pass' but as soon as anyone finds out my upbringing they HATE me. It's so bizarre how much resentment they have towards poor people. The whiplash of 'oh you went to HARVARD you must be so AMAZING' to 'you poor rural piece of shit you should just die' is wild.
I didn't go to Harvard, but I hear you words - I don't have an accent or sound uneducated so I get "passing".
I think because of it we see the worst - we see their scorn without any kind of filter, why would you hold back if you're talking to someone who isn't a part of that class?
There are more of us out there!