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Is this about Hillbilly Elegy?
JD "Appalachians are just lazy welfare leeches" Vance
I fucking hate Appalachia as only someone who grew up there can hate it, but God, what a dogshit fucking take from someone else who grew up in that shithole and should know better. Of all the many sins that can be laid at Appalachian regional culture's feet, 'lazy' and 'welfare leech' do not feature.
But it was condescendingly paternalistic enough to please liberals and victim-blaming enough to please conservatives, so it was so highly fucking praised when it came out.
Goddammit.
I thought it was about that. I listened to the episode of "If Books Could Kill" on it. And holy shit, JD's full of shit lol
Michael Hobbs reading the bit where JD questions his sexuality cracks me up.
Thanks for the new podcast recommendation.
You're welcome lol. I first heard about it here on Lemmy too
Yeah, both I and my father grew up in Appalachia before finally moving away, and I'm not saying it's a bastion of intellectualism, but that grifting piece of shit doesn't represent us.
I fucking hate Appalachia as only someone who grew up there can hate it
As someone who grew up in Florida, this resonates with me so fucking much, lol.
My family traveled quite a bit when I was a kid, and I often found myself riding through Appalachia, and honestly I loved the area around Chattanooga, I genuinely think it's the most beautiful part of the country, in spite of the kudzu. But it's probably the only place I could have moved to in the US that would be definitively worse than the place I left a decade ago.
I'm a proud Appalachian. We have some solid history. It's a shame what's become of the place. I still live here in West Virginia. Didn't that lying sack of shit grow up in a suburb of Cincinnati though?
I love and am proud of the history in the place. But as for living there? Man, I was born after right-wing talk radio started inundating the airwaves. Unfortunately, it was never been a pleasant social environment for me to exist in.
Rare case of the past actually being better in some small detail. Bring back labor radicalism in the mountainfolk, please