The only place I can think of is Minneapolis and that’s only because whenever I see people protesting there they’re always saying the coolest shit. Feel free to tell me I’m wrong because I’ve never been there.
Don’t doxx yourself obviously. I’m just tired of being surrounded by these people all the time.
Maybe breaking down everyone into broadly defined stereotypes is a shitty way to live. People are more complex irl than on reddit or whatever.
This is fine and good until like the 200th person you encounter who openly says something transphobic, or says homeless people should die, or is casually racist. I know people are products of their upbringing and surroundings, but eventually it wears away on the soul to be around so many people who express the most disgusting things and know there's not much you can do about it.
What am I gonna do, make a scene at work every single day? Find another job just to find people who are similar? Never talk to my family again?
I wouldn't even call most people I encounter politically oriented except a rare few. The bigotry though is absolutely endemic and flows out of them so easily that I just can't handle this. Saying something transphobic comes as easily as saying good morning to these people.
I don't even get angry at them anymore, I just get sad.
I live in the south btw
Your just going to encounter some assholes in life no way around it. If yr odds are 1 in 200 that's pretty good imo.
I live in the south too in a pretty rural area. People are pretty chill, there is kind of a libertarian "you do your thing, I do mine" attitude. There are a bunch of transplants moving here from NYC and Cali and honestly I like the locals way better. Most of them at least think the system/ the government is fucked up, whereas the lib transplants are just insane pod people, marketers/entrepreneurs/spreadsheet makers.
They're not even assholes, that's the problem with it. They're normal, everyday people and the normal, everyday attitude I encounter isn't chill, it's that homeless people are less than human and that trans people are monsters. I wish people had some kind of do your own thing attitude here. I live in a big urban area, the attitude is you should hustle, grind and work. Become an entrepreneur or get a master's degree or you're scum. It's destroying my brain.
I've met leftists here and have worked with some of them and they're the only people I've met around who are somewhat normal.
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Liberal ideas and right wing ideas are woven in everywhere. How visible they are is another thing. Libs just know to keep their homophobic or racist thoughts to themself imo, or couch them in some glossy idpol.
Anyway, from my experience, so called progressive cities are just expensive/gentrified/yuppy echo chambers. And they have all kinda mushed together into very similar cities at this point.
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lol