Former President Donald Trump’s supporters say they hold him as a source of true information over their family, friends, and religious leaders, according to a new CBS News/YouGov poll out on Sunday.

  • @PRUSSIA_x86
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    11 year ago

    Firstly, I never made any assumptions about where you’re from. Secondly, I didn’t say “elites”, which is a far-right dogwhistle for jews, I said “elitism”, which is something I have absolutely experienced.

    My fiance is from Phoenix, I’m from Ohio. When I first met his (lower middle class) friends they treated me like I was amish or some shit. I received countless, condescending explanations for simple things, as though they thought I’d lived my whole life in a cornfield. I finally had to explain to them that, while no, I hadn’t ever seen a skyscraper as tall as that one, or street numbers as high as those, I still knew what a city was. I don’t blame them for not understanding when they’ve been told their whole lives that gestures vaguely at middle america is all flyover country and that’s where farming or whatever happens, but it was still a patronizing experience that left a bad taste in my mouth. I can absolutely see how someone more steeped in reactionary or fascist rhetoric would take it as confirmation and reinforcement of the idea that “they’re all a bunch of snobs who don’t understand us REAL folk”.

    • @webadict
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      21 year ago

      Those are not my experiences talking to people throughout the US. No one has ever snobbed me for never visiting a large city like New York or even Chicago or even for not knowing something obvious or speaking funny. But, I generally avoid talking to shitty people, so perhaps that is where I went wrong.

      I have had other Midwesterners shout slurs out of their car windows at my friends. Multiple times! I went to a school that had real problems not drawing swastikas on synagogues. I’ve been asked weird questions by complete strangers about my black friends. To have those experiences would also suggest to them that the Midwest contains bigoted idiots, and they’d be right.