Baltimore's burning

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by killtrocity

Now that the daily lives of the bourgeois are being affected, the plight of the oppressed will change, right?


Nope, it's all "obey the law and the police won't bother you" or "blacks being blacks", etc.

if ppl riot, they invalidate their grievance

if they are peaceful they are ignored or mocked

[Trotskilicious]

when will we learn to stop talking about race!!

[Trotskilicious]

transplant cities like new york and boston and austin and san fran and portland etc etc etc etc

how come yr such an authority?

[MyOneAndOnly]

Apparently Sherman should have skipped Atlanta because NOT THE SOUTH

[MyOneAndOnly]

[MyOneAndOnly]

somebody ban this stupid fuck

[MyOneAndOnly]

Originally Posted by Poots

Scotty, I'm sure you can count on one hand the amount of times you've ventured outside of your whitewashed gated community, so I'll forgive your ignorance in thinking that I'm talking about geography.

I live in a neighborhood that's one third African American. Half of my wife's family is black, you shit-stain.

And we've traveled all over the south. i've spent a great deal of time over the past 15 years in Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee. We have many friends in Atlanta.

[Shallowed]

Originally Posted by scottytheoneand

I didn't realize how racist the Quebecois were

I think he's doing that sarcasm without a hint of subtlety thing.

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by Poots

That's exactly what I'm saying. It's just an American city like those you listed. Not much too special about it, unless you like Coke or 90% humidity. It's not like by visiting Atlanta you would be able to get a feel for the cultural uniqueness of the South.

atlanta and athens have a history of producing a boatload of musical talent from rem to outkast to mastodon to deerhunter.

but anyway back to b-more

[vixnix]

isn't atlanta where the walking dead is set?

[Dogfighter28]

Originally Posted by Poots

Atlanta isn't unique and distinct from other major American cities. It's just a transplant city filled with northerers or Florida type southerners. Everyone who moves there from the surrounding areas tries their best to lose any sort of accent or anything that makes them unique as southerners as fast as possible.

Yeah let's not mention all the black people that have lived there for a hundred years cause they don't matter and aren't southern

[MyOneAndOnly]

based on what Poots is saying, Minneapolis and Chicago are not Midwestern Cities

[Dogfighter28]

Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of bad things about Atlanta. It's the worst planned city I've ever been to. But it's definitely got culture going for it and is very southern.

[Dogfighter28]

Yeah never mind the hip hop clubs, southern food on every corner, festivals celebrating southern culture, low country boils, civil rights exhibits, and general racial diversity. It's not southern at all, you're right.

[hnibos]

Let's not argue with the most racist boarder on here.

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by Dogfighter28

Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of bad things about Atlanta. It's the worst planned city I've ever been to. But it's definitely got culture going for it and is very southern.

have you been to houston? they dont have zoning laws. dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains.

id say the nil culture city would be someplace like dallas or cleveland or phoenix or anaheim. id say that a lack of transplants is bad for the cultural vitality of the city

I see Atlanta frequently listed as one of the better cities for queer people and my northern bias keeps telling me that can't be right
Meanwhile I'll probably get a bat to the head on Saturday in liberal NYC

[Trotskilicious]

when are you fucking yanks gonna figure out that its blue city/red county?

[Dogfighter28]

Yes, my family is from north Alabama, other side Montgomery, I went to school in Tuscaloosa, and lived in Gulfport, MS.

And since people consider it so, Virginia as well.

[Eulogy]

The more interesting question is have you ever lived outside the south

I don't have experience with southern cities but the rural areas are insufferable to me. Moreso than northern rural areas. Can't right now pin down why that is. Home-region bias maybe.

[Eulogy]

Oh I guess I've been to New Orleans but that was during the sugar bowl and I didn't see too much. Never been to Atlanta or charleston or austin or Houston or Dallas or Charlotte or

Knoxville and Memphis but Knoxville is a college town and all I know of Memphis is Beale street and mud island (woo pumpkins)

[Trotskilicious]

houston and dallas suck

[Trotskilicious]

memphis grizzlies

screw calm and grind on

#thegrindfather

[Eulogy]

I've not immersed myself in the culture though so maybe I'm wrong about everything. I'd entertain that.

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

houston and dallas suck

That is what I've heard. I tried to explain the zoning law thing (not because I've seen it but I've heard) and I explained it so poorly that the person I was talking to was like "chicago is like that too"

I could never teach

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

when are you fucking yanks gonna figure out that its blue city/red county?

I have
I admit it's just my inherent bias and I don't like it, I just have to make a conscious effort to knock these thoughts out of my head
I mean everyone acknowledges that like upstate New York is extremely backwards and there's the whole "Pittsburgh and Philadelphia with Alabama in the middle" routine re: PA
and I did bring up that my own state currently has a literal sack of shit as governor

[Eulogy]

Mine too!

[sppunk]

Rural north and rural south is largely the same, IMO. Different accents, different weather,sane people.

[Trotskilicious]

p. much

the red state blue state thing was always bullshit

pa is full of hillbillies i talk to them on the reg

[Dogfighter28]

Yes I have lived out of the south. Military family growing up.