My girlfriend and I were planning on going camping today, but my girlfriend's white suburban middle class parents wouldn't let us, saying it was 'dangerous'. Both her and I agree that white middle class people are way too afraid of everything for some reason, but I don't know why. Any ideas?

    • RedArmor [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      In school we were always conditioned to think that getting in trouble and if the law is involved your life will be ruined forever and have no chance of success.

      • tim [he/him,they/them]
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        4 years ago

        I got hired at my current company while I had an arrest warrant out. Background check my ass

        • RedArmor [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Was it for a violent crime? Not trying to pry, just curious now about your that situation. That’s my only reason why they wouldn’t say anything about it (if it wasn’t) or they just didn’t outright do it. Lol

          • tim [he/him,they/them]
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            4 years ago

            It was not a violent crime. I know they didn’t check because I got called in months later by my manager to ask about it. Apparently someone had found my name in a public database of arrest warrants and sent it to him. It would have shown up at time of hire if they had checked. So here we are lol

    • tim [he/him,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      If someone owns a forest and doesn’t want campers there, they will put signs up lol