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?

  • DirtbagVegan [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Extreme isolation from any actual community as well as nature combined with a media that is built to sell fear.

    I think millennials and younger don't understand how bad the media environment in the 80s and 90s was for breeding fear of roving bands of crack-using robbers who were breaking into homes nightly, stealing everyone's hard earned SUV's, and stealing children off the street.