Prepper Forum

563 readers

2 users here now

Discsussions about prepping and preparedness, including disasters, prepping communities, sustainability, situational awareness, supplies, skills, gear. This is a forum about knowledge sharing.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Why do "prepper" and "prepping" have such a bad rap? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

15 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I've been interested in this whole prepping thing for the past couple of years, and I noticed something: A lot of people seem to look down on it. The words "prepper" and "prepping" sometimes get negative reactions, and it got me wondering--why's that?

It feels like some people see preppers as paranoid conspiracy theorists or just plain weird. But when you think about it, there are a ton of reasons to prep, like natural disasters (earthquakes, storms) or a bad economy. Prepping doesn't necessarily equate to being a bunker-dwelling hermit, right?

What do you guys think? Why do you reckon "prepper" and "prepping" get a bad rap? Is it just how the media paints it, or is it something else? Any of you gotten weird looks or comments? How do you deal with it? And do you think folks are seeing preppers differently now with all the stuff going on in the world these days?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you want to play a fun game, go on youtube and start searching for basic self-sufficiency stuff. Watch a couple videos about canning food, gardening, first aid, composting, things like that. Then let youtube autoplay and see how long before you end up on a video that uses the phrase "white genocide" unironically.

[–] Ddubz 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh man, no joke. When we first were trying to figure out chickens that's exactly what happened. Went from learning how to keep foxes and racoons out of the coop to gold and crypto are going to be the only currency stopping the new world order and the leftists want you to eat bugs so here's how to make beef jerky at home.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is up with the far right thinking people are going to force them to eat bugs? Also why are they so squeamish that eating bugs is too icky?

[–] Ddubz 4 points 1 year ago

It's some opinion article that got picked up by Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson. Not only was it an opinion report, but it was largely taken out of context by right wing pundits to get rage clicks.

Also, right wingers are amazingly ignorant of the world and that people in many countries consume insects as a relatively normal part of their diet, and that insects have always been a pretty regular source of protein for our species and previous versions of humans. They're so obsessed with what "third world countries" do and what what they think makes a "superior" civilization that they can't see that they're being rage fucked by their own prejudices.