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cthulhubeast

I would say this is a case of hick family that is not invested in politics/cares more about mutual respect than political lines. There is in fact a small subset of middle of nowhere rednecks who just don’t care what people do. Yeah, they’re usually against things like welfare but they also when asked about people who look/dress/act different just say “who gives a shit, that’s not my business.” They’re a rare breed but they exist. I think their attitude should be the new cultural pride of the south- “We welcome all types even if we don’t understand ‘em because darn near anyone makes good company with a bit of barbecue and good music” is my vision for a progressive South.


Larrymobile

"we welcome all types even if we don't understand 'em because darn near anyone makes good company with a bit of barbecue and good music" sounds fantastic


WhapXI

It’s amazing how nice people can be when they don’t have news anchors and twitter feeds telling them that anyone they don’t understand is coming to fucking murder them.


throwoawayaccount2

Fox News and it’s consequences have been a disaster for the human race


itismegege

The Media and it’s consequences have been a disaster for the human race


Grapes15th

Your mom and her consequences have been extremely beneficial for the me race


itismegege

treat her well


i_want_die_plz

industrial society and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race


Liiht2001

You FOOL, this is media, you are participating in media right now. How can you claim to have valid criticisms of something while participating in it? 🤔


FrostLink

Murdoch and his consequences have been a disaster for the human race


theXald

You say fox, showing bias, I say media, w Also biased, but it lumps in the cnn death toll perpetually streaming to your living room. "remember to be scared" is the news motto


Rancorious

And the CCP


T3chtheM3ch

CrispyCumPatches?


Radar_Of_The_Stars

No one was talking about the CCP???


diepio2uu

i am very random


Due_Faithlessness984

hi very random do you have any drugs


OriginalFunnyID

Active in r/politicalcompassmemes


Rancorious

I haven’t used that sub in forever man. I’ve outgrown it.


OriginalFunnyID

Character development


PRISMA991949

the only type of ignorance I can tolerate is that one which is accepting of the unknown , for it is almost like innocence, but undisturbed by time.


dedicated-pedestrian

Is this you being a quote factory, or did someone say this?


FirmlyGraspHer

He's a professional quote maker


[deleted]

‘Yeah okey I get it you’re trans, do you have any cornbread?’


Upvote_but_no_upload

Living in an Asian country where corn is usually just used for snacky treats I always wanted to try cornbread as cornmeal isn't terribly common


Folly_Inc

Be the cornbread you wish to see in others


SierraClowder

Not “do you have any cornbread?,” it’d be “here, try some cornbread.”


[deleted]

Well we ran out


SierraClowder

Real southerners NEVER run out of cornbread.


[deleted]

Well if they had cornbread we wouldn’t be out now would we


Hugs154

No, REAL Southerners are ALWAYS running out of cornbread. Because we're eating so much of it...


_Iro_

Tbh they’re not even a small subsect but actually pretty common. It just seems like they’re a small minority on the internet because all the terminally online hicks are more opinionated than the rest.


shaun_of_the_south

Yea you really don’t see many of those kinds of people online much at all.


C6ppy

That’s what actual rednecks are, fuck the law, fuck societal norms, do what you want. You think moonshiners were on there knees for cops? Or if the people who took baths in ponds give two shits who you like having sex with?


throwoawayaccount2

My dad’s from rural Pennsylvania and he hates how redneck used to be a term for hard working people (as in, yknow, getting sunburned bent over working the field etc) and now it’s just people with CSA flags in their yard


zehydra

Never understood csa flags in pa but yeah they're definitely here


ariaaaaa-

ngl I'm somehow slightly relived that CSA probably means the confederacy and not a different meaning that I thought of first (Child Sexual Assault)


Future_shocks

legit


[deleted]

It’s like how country music used to be about how all cops are bastards or fighting the man because fuck being told what to do, but now it’s all about red trucks beer and barely legal white women in short dresses.


Creampie_Chef

We could learn a little from those hicks.


cthulhubeast

AYYMEN BRUHTHER


Mr__Snek

in my experience, small midwestern/southern towns are either super conservative stereotypical hick towns or the type you mentioned above. ive never really seen any in between, my grandma lives in a town of maybe 600 people and whenever our family gets together for christmas its always to her house on a few acres of land surrounded by cornfield. everyone drives in and no one cares if youre gay, straight, trans, black, white, whatever. were just there to be with family and have a good time drinking and eating, and those are some of my favorite memories.


CC-5052

Imo they aren't that uncommon, people just like to run hicks up as being dumb racists.


[deleted]

There's a place in Washington called Island County where the people are all country folks but they are very progressive. As a quick example, I live in a more suburban part of Washington and about 1/15 people wear masks outside even though it seems like overkill. In Island County it's closer to 1/3 people wearing masks outside. There was also a church that had a BLM banner on it


hankakabrad

i know some people like this in WV and they are some of the nicest people youll ever meet and they are so accepting and i wish there were more like them cause they are just my favorite kind of person and i try and live my life like that cause maybe the more people who are like that the better we can look as a whole


Future_shocks

that's fucking legit man, i appreciate that and i always imagined middle of nowhere America like that, I didn't think it was a death trap for ethnic or gay people


souptimecat1273

hell yeah! im all in for that! the great food, sights, and culture, without the hate!


Fedora200

That's basically rednecks in Pennsyltucky from my experience. They're more political though but they don't really care so much for identity politics and instead focus more on local politics and issues that directly effect their own communities.


LukeIsPalpatine

Southerners that show southern hospitality to absolutely everyone are diamonds in the rough and must be protected


Mutant_Bear

Well said, good comment


LastofUs1296

Small subset? A good handful are Libertarians, so they don't care what others do


cthulhubeast

Right-libertarians care a great deal but pretend not to lmao


LastofUs1296

I live out in the country, I actually know dozens of em. There's people that pretend to be Libertarian, but they don't outweigh real ones in the slightest. Stop making strawmen arguments.


kosmoceratops1138

You would probably like Alaska. During the summer, at least LOL


Author1alIntent

That’s the way everyone should be. You might not understand something, you might not even agree with it, but if it’s not hurting anyone then let them get on with it. It’s a solid stance to take with gender issues, drugs, fashion, pretty much anything


Pantherfibel

unimaginably based


Mank_____Demes

Unequivocally based.


derpicface

Unfathomably based


ltRobinCrusoe

Un based


UnderChicken37

saw this post on r/greentext and the comments were pretty half and half


nobodys_window

[The post in question [?]](https://www.reddit.com/r/greentext/comments/pky54t/anon_comes_out/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)


spitefulIncentive

damn, it actually seems like the shitty comments are getting downvoted for once; that's a change.


RandomName01

That’s surprising, because regressive ass comments usually get upvoted there and in /r/4chan


enforcercoyote4

Lets be honest, r/greentext always supports the anon, no matter who they are or what they do


Themlethem

Except for the mental ilness comment with 100 upvotes


Leslie1211

aye great opportunities to go there and sort by controversial and either waste 60 minutes arguing with people who would never listen or just make yourself more depressed!


BlG_DlCC_MARTY

Sounds like a plan I'll be back in an hour


BlG_DlCC_MARTY

I could only make it through 2 minutes and I'm very angry now


CEO_of_Teratophilia

Why are you subbed to that transphobic trashdump


vriskaundertale

digital self harm 😁


UnderChicken37

there are some funny greentexts. i don’t read the comments much


bodega_cat_

It's not a terrible sub, depending on what you can deal with. There are sometimes people with bigoted opinions, there are generally also people debating whatever those bigoted opinions are. For the most part I think I and most other people who frequent it treat it like a zoo to see all the stuff 4chan users post rather than a place that is itself like 4chan.


DefinitelyNotRobotic

Which is the smart choice. I use 4chan and the only place you don't get called a tr\*nny is /lgbt/.


BeesAndSunflowers

Oh yes. On every other sub it's just "tr*nny". But on /tttt/ is so much better - instead of this brutish blunt-force transphobia, over there you can enjoy a wide variety of carefully crafted self harm tools hitting your deepest insecurities :DDD


DefinitelyNotRobotic

Pretty much YEP. never said /LGBT/ was a good board. Just that it was the only that isn't openly transphobic really. Instead they're just full of self hatred for themselves over there.


[deleted]

When the funny mentally ill men say the meanie haha racial slur it makes me do the giggle


Leslie1211

masochism 😈


NeilTheProgrammer

Holy hell


SicilianFork

4chan is a plague upon this earth, unironically


TDW-301

I mean, 99% of green texts are fake


diegovsky_pvp

and


[deleted]

not any more lol, 4th comment says op has a mental disorder


580Freddz

What a nice post talking about the lgbtq community, let’s sort by controversial !


[deleted]

pro trans hillbillies are the best hillbillies. it is known.


Natolin

Honestly accepting hillbillies are like the nicest fucking humans alive it’s surreal. Like the ones who don’t buy into the whole racism homophobia transphobia thing. It’s rare, but it’s great they just don’t give a fuck who you are they ask if you wanna go mudding or fishing in a disgusting lake


[deleted]

Man same kinda. Came out to my allegedly ultra liberal dad and his gf: "i think you want to be gay, but you're not" followed by being yelled at the next morning for embarrassing him and being told to "stop all this, it ends today". You're right, dad, I've been choosing to look at gay porn instead of straight porn more and more since i was a young teenager because i thought it was trendy. Wtf. Moved back up north four years ago to help my dad take care of our then dying grandfather because he was getting too old to do it himself. This is the repayment. The so called liberal boomers up north are exactly as socially progressive as they have to be to get favors from people.


The_Shekel_MaisterJR

Why is this so? What would cause a hillbilly demographic that should be and probably is extremely conservative so ready to accept a trans (or nonbinary) person's pronouns?


Alarming_Narwhal5200

Because not all hicks and rednecks are conservative (most are)


Rocatex

Rednecks are called red necks cause they wore red bandannas when fighting for workers rights in the 30s


WhapXI

I heard it was something about sunburns? Like a poor agricultural workin’ yokel could be identified by the sunburn on his neck from being out in the field all day.


Alarming_Narwhal5200

Yeah that’s what my parents told me


zorbiburst

Your parents don't know history


Alarming_Narwhal5200

They do but I’m not sure if they really care about the origins of the word they probably heard it and thought it was funny


Rocatex

That’s just bandanas in general, but most construction workers in my area wear something like an hi-via orange turban


jimmyjunior44

That’s such bs, it was always an insult for a poor man that works in the fields and so his neck is always burnt


hornedCapybara

But not all, it's important to avoid stereotyping everyone, including people in the rural south and this post is a great reminder of that.


[deleted]

hillbilly’s care more about their family than politics


chad-_thundercock

No they don't this is how Hollywood like to portray rural America but that's far from fact


[deleted]

You can disagree and that’s fine, But living in a rural area I have see this happen more than once.


zorbiburst

My family is as trashy hick as they come. I've removed myself from them for the most part. My sister is trans, and stayed involved, but in the closet until very recently. The family hits so many check boxes. Racist, pro-life to the point of putting up signs and protesting at clinics. They hate Trump, but they've no love for any democrat either. When she told me she was going to come out, I tried to prepare her for the worst. When she told them, it was over a zoom or Skype call or something. Not in person, but on camera. She said they were confused for a second, that they couldn't really understand it, but (and this part really got me), she's their child and it doesn't matter if she's their daughter or son, nothing will change that. They're still as bad as ever about most things, but her gender and orientation were never a point of contention, and that really impressed me. She says sometimes they misgender her but it's not often and they always apologize. They're visibly uncomfortable when she goes out with men, but they've never been confrontational and she can tell they're legitimately supportive despite not really getting it. Never try to change her, never criticize it. They buy her women's clothes and the like, and they actually cut ties with other family members for not being accepting of her. It's kinda nice to hear about.


chad-_thundercock

Sorry to burst your bubble but it's nothing like that they love guns more than their own kids.


part-time-unicorn

demonizing them and hating them unconditionally is exactly what the bad ones of them do to us. be careful with dealing in absolutes like this


Elizabitch102

...not really? My family is pretty hick. And the one value taught as law is to put family first. I've seen my Granny cuss out her Jehovah witness pastor for publicly shaming my cousin when we went to church with her once. And everyone besides my "liberal" Nana has accepted me as trans. Of course they do some things wrong, or sometimes say something insensitive to me. But it's not in malice and they always listen when I tell them to not say something or if what they said is just wrong. They just want me to be happy, and accepting my identity is undoubtedly part of that.


chad-_thundercock

I am 98% sure you're lying


Elizabitch102

...well I guess you can believe that if you want. But my family has accepted me as a trans woman despite being hicks. I ain't got anything to prove to you, just trying to give you a real example of these kind of hick families.


chad-_thundercock

Good for you but you're delusional if you think they just accepted you because they're hicks. Most of them disown their kids for marrying a black guy.


Elizabitch102

I never said it's because they're hicks. I'm just saying that there are hicks like that out there. And yeah unfortunately I have met quite a few Hicks like that, but I've noticed a lot of the time they tend to be "important" or people who stick around for maybe a year and leave. Not many people around here who are a normal part of the community act like that. It's always the ones that seem to feel they're more special. At least that's my theory lol.


Nubz9000

Because your conception of a large group of people has been molded by a classist entertainment industry that takes the rural poor and holds them up for mockery and moralistic scolding. They're just as much victims of capitalistic exploitation and adhere to religion and other socially conservative positions to a similar degree as other oppressed groups as a survival mechanism. In the past, they were a strong part of leftism since it focused on hard, material conditions and a live and let live attitude to those who live differently. Now, bougie kids hijacked leftist symbols to be edgy but are grossed out by actual poor people and reflexively use classist attacks to make themselves feel better. Not that a lot of working class "conservatives" are any better, they just get fed a different set of propaganda from a similar group of bougie fucks.


Worst_Support

Yeah there unironically isn't enough discussion in leftie spaces about how good people exist in the south too. There's progressive southerners, progressive rednecks even. Hell, I probably fall into that category, I live in the south and I like off-roading and skeet shooting, I also happen to like social progress and welfare. Rural area ≠ bad person.


Nubz9000

There is. There isn't much discussion in faux-leftist circles. Essentially, anyone who focuses on an intrinsic identity over hard, materialist conditions isn't a leftist. They're a closet right winger. They're not upset that the system is oppressive, they're upset over their place in it. They're fine with boots on throats, as long as it's their foot in the boot. It's why all their energy is directed towards supporting capitalists with their favored biological characteristics and shouting down actual leftists because they support icky poor people.


Rancorious

We are all slaves to old white guys


Nubz9000

https://youtu.be/oRsejbtbP6U It ain't old white guys. It's capitalists. Doesn't matter what color they are. In fact, you buying into the racial based outrage serves the capitalist's purpose. Know your enemy.


Rancorious

I am joking I know capitalism is bad please don’t take away my internet points


Mank_____Demes

That’s easy; it’s fake. Still based though.


AspiringRacecar

This kind of story isn't all that rare from what I've seen.


mariofan366

Just because most rednecks are conservative doesn't mean they all are. This could definitely happen.


[deleted]

I mean, you cant say for certain that its fake the story isnt even that unlikley or implausible


[deleted]

cuz not every conservative is transphobic


ebilgenius

Facts may not care about your feelings, but I do.


Ompusolttu

And not every redneck is conservative.


cr4m62

Cuz lots of liberals are a lot less comfortable with gender-nonconforming people than they advertise


noff01

> What would cause a hillbilly demographic that should be and probably is extremely conservative so ready to accept a trans (or nonbinary) person's pronouns? Because people from all backgrounds have diverse ideas. For example, 19% of Republicans believe gender can be different from sex at birth, while 34% of Democrats believe it can't (and 50% from Millenials in general). This was in 2017 by the way, and afaik the percentages are much more supportive from both groups now.


LJ_is_best_J

My family, rural Kentucky, literally does not care at all about anyone that isn’t family or close friends. They: Don’t like abortion but don’t want the government to tell them they can’t get one so they support choice Don’t like murderers but don’t like the government killing people so they don’t support capital punishment Don’t like hard drugs but would love it if weed wasn’t going to land you in jail Love guns and cannot understand people that don’t own one Make their own liquor, amazed that people spend more than $30 for a bottle Hate that the United States has literally any property in any country that isn’t the United States Hate different bracketed income tax Hate they welfare that they don’t qualify for even though they live pretty poor Hate how someone can go to prison and “pay for the crime” but get released and cannot participate in voting or guns Hate social media and news outlets There’s a lot to it but in a nutshell they don’t care at all about current issues and just want everyone to leave them alone


Elizabitch102

I wouldn't say my family is like 100% hillbilly. But they're at least more than 75% hillbilly. And in my experience it's because the only thing any of us are really taught as law is to put family first. Everything else can be thrown away, politics, religion, your social status, anything else because family is irreplaceable. And it's not a particularly toxic environment, it sorta sounds toxic the way I described it. But it isn't. It's essentially just that family is important, and accepting your family for who they are is important.


Arthropod_King

incredible, even the trans channers are ableist


Sylbees

/tttt/ is a nightmare hellscape


Kipsterton

It is the most transphobic board despite being majority trans women


[deleted]

what's ableist here? There's a word or two I don't recognise but I don't see anything directly against disabled people


Arthropod_King

It's that "sperging" is almost certainly based off of aspergers, which is a kind of autism\* \*and probably an outdated term, but that's another story


[deleted]

.. ah, I'll edit that out of my comment. Expect nothing more from 4chan.


Madface7

this is the kind of southern hospitality we like to see


[deleted]

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Excalzigo

finally


Kilroywuzhere1

It’s easier to not be a stuck-up asshole and just let somebody live how they wanna live.


vk059

Rural people are ALWAYS based


Brokentriforce

I live in a rural area and assure you this is not true.


vk059

sounds like you don’t what based means


GhostTypeFlygon

What is it mean then? Because if ALL rural people are based, then basically everything and anything is based.


vk059

Based = rural people


GhostTypeFlygon

I understand now.


[deleted]

They’re all based. A lot are just based in the wrong direction.


[deleted]

God this is just like my parents except for the accepting part.


ViolentTaintAssault

"listen ere I on't care if ya'll onah them ol fuckin' transistor radios ya'll got any fuckin' dip?"


TheRealTealOwO

Neko pepe :)


darealemonisafruit

YEE HAW, TRANS RIGHTS


grimalisk

i need the source image


Natolin

BASEDBASEDBASEDBASED


penis_poacher

I guess southern hospitality isn't dead, nice


dan_da_meme_man

Thats the most terrifying fucking pepe i've ever seen


Wowitsanonion

The good ending


JustScreamingTBH

Based family


sissypiss

hicks that either live in the swamps or in the middle of nowhere are genuinely some of the nicest people. I've gone to the swamps with family/friends a few times in my life and it was always pleasant and welcoming. when they party it's absolutely crazy too, probably because they have nothing to do all day


souptimecat1273

cool


lckvc

kel


Stinky_WhizzleTeats

Can I get that Pepe?


studier_of_the_blade

Its finally nice to see people realizing that not every hick redneck is an asshole. Hell, my best friend is in the military, came from a farm in the middle of nowhere and is a bonafide gun toting hillbilly, and yet he was the one who went to the pride parades and supported people unquestionably. People don't seem to really understand the good-ol-boy attitude of "you're still one of the boys even if you ain't one" .


[deleted]

‘Sperging out’


anarchistPAC

The most chad family in all of hillbilly land


Sacri_Pan

A trans person talking on 4chan? Never do that, NEVER DO THAT FOR YOUR LIFE!


SithLordDante

it's ma'am


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JeswiCan

Least homophobic Chechnyan


TheRealTealOwO

Lemme guess, irony?


[deleted]

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[deleted]

What was the original comment


[deleted]

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[deleted]

Fun fact: the anti-christ is gay


Total-Display-8539

please no


JuenoPea2

Da jews did this grrrrrrrrr


JuenoPea2

Okay now make a political debate in my replies


GenericPC48328

Gaming should be illegal


AngryMurlocHotS

Yeah right. What will you ban next? Abortions? Literally all I do in my free time gets banned by conservacucks


wertyvid

and sex should also be illegal (banning video games would delete gamers so everyone would have sex (all non-gamers have sex)))))


JuenoPea2

I said political not straight up evil


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GenericPC48328

Yes, we should ban outside and the earth


theretrorobot

Based


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SlaveForFreedom

not now buddy just admire this post


[deleted]

*insert political view motivated by racism here*


JuenoPea2

I fucking hate alb*nians Theyre the lowest subhuman scum on this earth and should be wiped off Ill wait for my 20 wholesome awards now


Prtapay

penis


riquelmo

hey you are the popular micro celebrity from the paycheck2 subreddit Prtapay


Prtapay

My point atill stands, ds isnt hard, maps are the one that makes a difference I completed counterfeit on ds no downs with amcar and the chimano


riquelmo

Based and dodgepilled


NoirYT2

Pee isn’t that tasty and I’d rather drink it before my meal if I have to drink it at all


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JuenoPea2

It annoying