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?

  • dendritus [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I live in a rural area, and it's reversed in this scenario. People here will go camping and hunting for a week, but they'll be terrified the shitass "town" 15 miles away will be attacked by antifa/BLM/Muslims.

    Basically, they'll always be scared, just the specifics change.

    • Multihedra [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I was in a really rural part of my area and I saw a woman jogging with a straight up 6-shooter. I couldn’t tell if she had a holster or if it was athletic wear specifically meant for firearms, but she was definitely wearing a sports bra and shorts lol

      I just found it funny because the chud depiction of “the city” is that it’s a place where it’s dangerous all the time, while you (at least until x years ago) don’t need to lock your doors where they live. But obviously this woman felt the need to be strapped jogging out in the country.

      To be clear, doing anything as a woman can be fucking dangerous because men can be unimaginably awful, so I don’t blame her at all for having a weapon. I just still think there’s a bit of irony there that I found funny

    • happybadger [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      but they’ll be terrified the shitass “town” 15 miles away will be attacked by antifa/BLM/Muslims.

      Libertarian roommate 1 was convinced that Antifa was going to attack a courthouse in a cattle town that is an hour's drive from any of the cities with BLM protests. That town is infamous for its smell and rabidly denying COVID so nobody in their right mind would go there. His plan was to load his car, with an infidel sticker on it of course, full of guns and drive around that town until antifa tries to carjack him at which point he'd get to save the day. He was personally motivated because he read they were lynching anyone who drives a truck and were killing any horses they could find.

      Libertarian roommate 2 was convinced that Antifa was going to attack the small businesses in our town, a farming town with one street. He, unemployed, had tears in his eyes as he asked to borrow one of my guns so that he could stand in front of a random business on the same street- the only street- as the police station.

      People of the land. The common clay of the new west.

    • Elon_Musk [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      My fat boomer boss got scared when he rode his motorcycle through the city. "anybody could just come right up to you" or something to that effect. He said he won't go back without his gun. I hope he gets [redacted]

      My boomer coworkers have done more to push me left than any leftist org.