• Jax@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    4 days ago

    I think all religion is superstition - if you actually read what I wrote you’d be able to put that together, but you think I’m being racist because you’re missing a few critical brain wrinkles.

    • agent_nycto@lemmy.world
      11·
      3 days ago

      No, it’s just that you’re uneducated.

      The trope of the religious, ignorant hillbilly is not only based off of classism, but also racism. There was a lot of mixing of races and cultures in Appalachia, because a lot of people were poor and poor isolated people tend to work together, so a lot of those “ignorant and inpure” hill folk started, horror upon horror, interbreeding instead of keeping the races pure. That’s where you get groups like the Melungeon.

      Of course, certain types of people, usually with white hoods in their closet, didn’t like that, (and the fact these folks tended to unionize and fight back) so they spent a good amount of time spreading a lot of bad rumors about dangerous, ignorant, backwards religious people living in Appalachia.

      So you, a judgemental and ignorant person on the Internet, fell for a long standing KKK propaganda talking point.

      • Jax@sh.itjust.works
        11·
        3 days ago

        Incorrect, superstition is always based in woo woo magical thinking/ religion. I’m not interested in whatever bullshit this is, you can keep your ‘education’ to yourself.

        • agent_nycto@lemmy.world
          11·
          3 days ago

          I’m saying that you assuming people from Appalachia are superstitious and backwards is part of a racist propaganda campaign that you fell for.

          No point in arguing with fools I guess, enjoy your high horse.

          • Jax@sh.itjust.works
            11·
            3 days ago

            Appalachia is at least 80% white. It is one of the least racially diverse places in the country. Trying to suggest I’m somehow being racist is fucking brain damaged - educate yourself on critical race theory.

            Edit: Melungean is a slur by the way, congrats on outing yourself

            • agent_nycto@lemmy.world
              11·
              3 days ago

              Weird you’re telling someone that something is a slur when you don’t even know our culture or are even from here.

              Get bent ya KKK brainwashed bigot, you’re the one thinking people from Appalachia are all ignorant religious idiots.

              • Jax@sh.itjust.works
                11·
                3 days ago

                when you don’t even know our culture or are even from here.

                Don’t need to, wanna know why?

                Ghosts. Aren’t. Real. Monsters. Are. Human.

                Actually, quick question - what’s your skin color?