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[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 118 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I wouldn't go down this route, painting all rednecks as Maga supporters is not fair to them or conducive to a good outcome.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 51 points 11 months ago (3 children)

And there are plenty of MAGA dipshits who aren't rednecks. If you watched the Mummers parade today, you saw a bunch of Delco bigots who wouldn't know a tractor from a turnip truck. But those guys sure looked pretty in their dresses.

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

Exactly, and a lot of the people who were at Jan 6 were from upper middle class suburban white america who flew in to DC taking time off from their cushy jobs to larp as revolutionaries.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This is a big point. I briefly took a job in Northern California two years ago and met more openly-racist bigots and transphobes than I ever met in my Appalachian hometown

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I've made comments about how Mississippians are not what they're made out to be. Not a welcome comment around here.

[–] PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There's an important distinction to be made between rednecks and hillbillies. The south would like you toe believe that anything non-urban is redneck, this is not so.

[–] flicker@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Hillbillies are generally a specific type of non urban. Here in Appalachia we refer to them as off the mountain. You don't just run into hillbillies. You have to go where they go.

The rest of us are rednecks. I don't think redneck is "everyone south and rural" but it's pretty close.

[–] Tristaniopsis@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I had no idea what you were talking about but JFC what a cringy bunch of freaks. The Wikipedia article had photos that turned my stomach.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's a longstanding Philadelphia tradition with a problematic history of casual and overt racism.

[–] Tristaniopsis@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s problematic just because of the stupid shit they’re wearing. WTF?!?!

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Some of the costumes are rather intricate and impressive. And then sometimes they're racist. People who defend the Mummers try to pretend the bigots have been removed and prohibited frim returning, but this year some bigots attacked the crowd while waving MAGA flag.

The musical acts are good, though. Lotta fun for the kids.

[–] Tristaniopsis@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago

I’m sure the kids love a spectacle but the aesthetic of it all makes feel physically ill.

[–] eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's a joke about Green Day's recent concert where they replaced the line "I'm not a part of the redneck agenda" with "I'm not a part of the MAGA agenda" in their song American Idiot.

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago
[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Yep. I would say im pretty redneck and given the chance id kick him in his tiny orange cock.

[–] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Just carrying on the long long history of punishing the workers who dared take up arms to defend themselves a century ago.

Unlikely to change any time soon. That punishment has included the above derision, plastered all over all forms of media for decades. As well as generational economic punishment. GovCo shat on Appalachia from such a height they've never yet recovered and likely never will. Look at the response to the devastation from that hurricane.

Only people on this continent that got a worse hand are the indigenous and black folks in southern states.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It also didn't work for Hilary in spectacular fashion.