And I'm not talking about "officer involved shooting" or language that would feature in a Citations Needed episode, I'm asking for niche. My example:
When you read a long form interview and the interviewer has to open the piece with describing them entering, what they ordered for lunch, etc in the most flowery language.
"Mr. Hex Bear greeted me with a comfortable yet quaint handshake. The disheveled, patchy beard paired with a stained hoody gave off the impression that he was a common man, but his lunch choice said the opposite. He ordered the Truffle Salad, a glass of 1989 Cabernet, and mentioned the chef by name, asked the waiter how his children were. From the moment Hex sat down, he never broke eye contact with me, but exuded a confidence that made it seem like he did this every day."
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I generally hate the "east coast writer visits rural Midwestern town". There was so much shit about this around 2016. "This town voted for trump, then one of their own was deported. We went fishing with one voter to get a deeper understanding."
I live in a tiny Midwest rural town with coal mines and whatnot. Just so much shit of "this coal mine voted for trump, now he regrets it." Wannabe Faulkner types waxing poetic about where I live, but straying far from the trailer park.
100000% this, my god. From 2016 to 2020 there must have been over a hundred of these stupid fucking articles about liberal journalists or just people in general going to the middle of Bumfuck Nowhere, Indiana and spending the day with an old man who's like "Well, I just don't understand all this gender stuff but I like to see the youngins have interest in fixing cars and going fishing on the lake!" and then the writer is like "Despite political differences, we had a great time together and we learned a lot from each other - and I especially learned a lot from him. Maybe if we all had these experiences and talked to each other without hatred and anger, we could heal the divides that so badly affect this country." and then I want to swandive into a fucking volcano.
Like, first and foremost, all the people living in flyover states are no more American than the average city dweller; an area having less people per square mile does not boost the Americanometer readings. Second, why not talk to people living in actual, deep poverty who need to work 3+ jobs to keep their families alive instead of 40-year-old white people who spend their time getting enraged by the internet and TV? Third, it's all a fucking lie anyway! The problems affecting America aren't because we're all politically divided, it's because our material conditions of all but the top 1% of the top 1% are declining and we're going mad because of it! It's because healthcare is prohibitively expensive! It's because we're all miserable and overworked at our jobs! Arguments between supporters of Capitalist Party A and Capitalist Party B make basically no fucking difference to anything at all! This is precisely the reason why the problem is always made out to be political division - because it isn't, and if we looked deeper and actually tried to find what the problems were and then tried to solve them, it would be to the detriment of capitalist profits! The smokescreen must remain!
Seeing this quite late, but great thoughts. Yeah, when I would hate read these articles, it was always pretty obvious to me that this political division was largely manufactured, because no one wants to address that what almost all people share politically in this country is a threat to capital.
I don't know anyone around me that doesn't believe in universal healthcare and some kind of public retirement system, but I never really see that talked about. Just the fact that like 80% of people in this country support it, but it's never brought up as a bipartisan way to heal. In fact, it has to be purposely obfuscated.
Lmao ignoring the vast swathes of suburban white Trumpsters who live just outside of every single city in America. Definitely just the midwest poors, not my coworkers and neighbors.