I lived in Arizona for many years, and it gets targeted quite often as well
Arizona is a super garbage state tho. Continue shit-talking at will. Nice scenery, terrible people.
posted by Squeak Attack at 11:56 AM on November 13, in thread 23915
Cortex and the Fuck Kittens. New mixtape dropping this January.
posted by Xavier Xavier at 11:14 AM on November 13, in thread 23915
"Klang, #notallmichiganders, dude. I've got good friends in Howell (aka "howelltucky", walled lake (aka " waltucky"), and Milford (aka "mildewtucky"). You can take howell's racist history and spin it up; you can call all Michiganders a bunch of teabaggers, you can have your own opinions, but keep that shit to yourself. You just put ME in that shitty little picture of Michigan, and that sucks.
I don't need to hear it and quite frankly it's what sciatrix is trying to address. Got problems with michigan politics? Great. Make a post. Got problems with racism in michigan? Great. Make a post. But please stop with the dismissive drive by bullshit, please, and thanks."
Dismissive drive-by bullshit? In the spirit of comity: learn to fucking read, Juggalo.
I didn't call all Michiganders a bunch of teabaggers รข€” I said they'd elected a generations' worth of them. Maybe you're defensive because you're a Kerry Bentivolio voter (you do have friends in Milford)?
The point wasn't that I was lumping all people from Michigan in as racists (though god knows Howell doesn't need me to "spin it up"), it was that many of the stereotypes about The South also apply to Michigan, which is far enough north that you can drive south to Canada.
So instead of borrowing trouble here and implicitly impugning the quality of the Michigan public schools by putting YOURSELF into that "shitty little picture of Michigan," how about spending more time reading and less time getting Better Made dust in your keyboard?
If you're not satisfied by this reply, great, how about you follow your own advice and make a separate MeTa post about it?
posted by klangklangston at 1:19 PM on November 13, in thread 23915
My sons are both Japanese citizens (as is my wife), and are functionally bilingual. I have been intimately connected to Japan and Asia for twenty years. I work as a Japanese-English translator (among other things).
My children have experienced some discrimination in Japan, and my wife has experienced racism in Canada. I'm interested in the construction of race, and how different cultures define race.
I'm also interested in how we raise "third culture" kids.
posted by Nevin at 1:07 PM on November 13, in thread 23916
"rap" "music"
posted by shakespeherian at 2:05 PM on November 13, in thread 23915
I just wanted to address the notion of punching up versus down. I live in New York, and from my point of view, such a huge amount of the worst parts of our culture in the US comes from the south. I look around me up here, and I don't see a bunch of perfect people, but holy crap, as a whole? We get it kinda right, sometimes.
To me, I feel like the south, POLITICALLY has been punching down on me and mine for decades if not centuries. I know there's hundreds of thousands and millions of amazing people there (many of which are my close relatives), but there seems to be a never ending tide of awful garbage spewing from the damn place that I don't know how anyone's gonna stop.
...ANYways:
Sorry, Southerners, I've said mean shit about you sometimes (never on Metafilter). I shouldn't and I'll try not to in the future. I know you've got some great people down there, and i know a lot of MUCH better people than me are caught in the crossfire fighting battles I thankfully never will.
Cheers!
posted by quadbonus at 7:51 PM on November 13, in thread 23915
I disagree with your framing of my comment, LobsterMitten. I explained where I was coming from, admitted I was wrong, and promised not to do something again ever that I've never done here before ever.
Whatever, I guess my tone of voice is just not allowed here.
Peace
posted by quadbonus at 8:13 PM on November 13, in thread 23915
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