I love outside of Gary Indiana, and yeah it can be dangerous if you look lost or like you have no purpose for being there, but there's also good working people just trying to eke out the same shit living we all are. I hear my mom and sisters say this kind of shit and it's just like. Sigh
Edit; for some fun examples look on any reddit thread about dangerous trips or some shit and people will constantly talk about how badass they were for driving through Gary or St Louis or some shit.
It's not a warzone mayos.
There are neighborhoods in my city that are referred to by mayos as "The Planet of the Apes." Some of my own relatives have used that phrase. But don't you dare call them racist because they'll get offended and go on a spiel about how not-racist they are.
On that note "The Planet of the Apes" comparison doesn't even make sense when you actually think about the movie. You have a society run by a religious patriarchy that doesn't believe in evolution, is okay with animal abuse, covers up scientific discoveries, silences progressive voices and is propped up by an elite police/military caste.
If anything POTA satirizes the far-right. But the right are horribly media illiterate so the messaging just goes over their heads. :wonder-who-thats-for: