HandBreadedTools
Dude deadass you are either ignorant or disingenuous if you think the South is not a special kind of evil. I hope it's the former.
Point fingers? Why are you being so dense?
It's not like the corridor of shame was some unforeseen possibility caused by a lust of lowering taxes. It is intentional, by design. It is no coincidence the schools are entirely for predominantly Black neighborhoods and counties. The schools are so bad due to the state intentionally cutting off access to funding for Black students. Obviously, they do not claim this is the reasoning. However, at the exact same time these students are discriminated against to an unimaginable level, other students are enjoying the luxuries of multiple $1 billion buildings at some schools, like in Summerville, a predominantly white area.
But no, let's not "point fingers" lmfao. Occam's Razor is that you should never attribute to malice what you can attribute to ignorance. Well, this cannot be attributed to ignorance. The state of SC, and many states in the South, are full of malice.
I could literally go on and on if you want, I study political science in the South. The hatred on display here is different from the rest of the country, it is not the same as prejudice or racism in other areas, though it does exist all over, of course.
I grew up in South Carolina. OP is absolutely correct. If you do not believe them, or I, I do not know what to tell you.
I can say that all areas of the South (they mean the Southeast, btw. So anything East of Texas) are historically fucking evil. My family here goes back over 200 years, I can conclude that the history here has been consistently the worst part of the US.
Obviously, nearly anyone can experience discrimination or prejudice in any state, but it's a different story when you have a history here of people who got into power by bragging about partaking in massacres of minorities, like Benjamin Tillman who governed SC and was a senator to Congress after that.
Or you can look at more individual situations, like how Louisiana sentenced a 16 year old to death in 1947 for a murder that he never committed (look up louisiana ex rel. francis v. resweber). In that situation, Francis' case only made it to the Supreme Court of the United States because the best friend of the person that was murdered happened to be a lawyer who took Francis' case after the State's attempt to electrocute him failed the first time. I encourage you to look into this case, as it is obvious it was framing a child for the murder of a white male, a murder likely knowingly committed by a sheriff from a neighboring town.
You could look at the histories of discrimination and hatred and the use of people as hostages for political power, or even the civil war itself.
You could also look at more recent examples, where the South has continuously acted against their own people politically and physically through violence or barring people from education. Currently, right now, TODAY, there is a place in South Carolina referred to as the "corridor of shame" due to how abhorrent the schools are there. Yet, the majority of people that live in South Carolina actively support this violence.
Anecdotally, before I left the community I was able to talk with southerners, being a white AMAB person, where they would speak as though it was behind closed doors. The amount of extreme racism, hatred, homophobia, xenophobia, and anger towards anyone wanting to better themselves was overwhelming. The blatant disregard for human beings was never in short supply.
Yes, there are examples of northern states doing horrible things to their people, and examples of northerners themselves doing their own atrocities. The difference is those atrocities were recognized as such by more recent generations. Today, people here still praise the past as a better time, wishing they could go back to Black codes or Jim Crow Laws.
Most importantly, there has never been a single good thing the US has done that can be attributed to a Southerner or Southern state.
Ask the slaves that lol. That argument is moot because it relies on legitimizing the oppression committed by slavers by not seeing enslaved people as part of the population/group. Their history was not recorded the same way the slaver's history was, yet they were still humans that thought about, talked about, and theorized about morality too. You don't get to claim to know the group consensus of a past society just because slavers used oppression to erase the viewpoints of those who disagreed.
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This is the dumbest shit I've ever read
That's not how mental health stuff works. People do not really develop anxiety in adulthood like that. You won't wake up one day and have suddenly developed a mental health disorder. Mental health disorders require both genetic predisposition and real-life experiences, but those experiences really only affect someone in that way before their brain is fully developed.
This is the most idiotic whataboutism I've ever seen. You know there are other countries that focus on rehabilitation, countries that do not have repeat offenders like we do, right? Stop justifying a clearly broken system with theoretical nonsense, especially when that nonsense is already disproven elsewhere.
I believe that is the case where the defendant was found guilty, unlike here. In this case, the person was found not guilty of murder, yet still was held for 10 years.
Here's an article where strike leader Tony Cardwell, President of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way of Employee's division, explains that 4 sick days was the lowest offer they were willing to accept. I wish Biden did things differently in general, and they have every right to be unhappy and to push for further change, but Biden did actually work with them to get the minimum they wanted.
The minimum is not exactly worth an endearing compliment, though. But the situation is more complicated than just that Biden fucked over unions.
This is objectively false. Please, just look it up. In recent times, a majority of Israeli people do not support it, but a majority did before the last five years or so.