Sorry Joey, nothing grinds my gears more than people who live outside of KY who talk about how racist this state is.
I have lived and worked in many places, and I’d argue Kentucky is no more racist than any place else. (I will say, however, that Mississippi is wayyy more racist, so I assume Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana are pretty bad too).
This isn’t to say there aren’t racist people in KY, it’s just that it’s about the same proportion of the population compared to say Illinois.
::nodding::
People in Kentucky are generally impeccably nice in person. We aren't the most educated or pristine but we are usually kind to people of all colors. If anything, the fact that all Kentuckians are regarded as knuckledragging hilljacks by the rest of the world makes people less racist, imo. We are all basically ninjas because we talk funny and alot of us don't have much sense.
The point of Hillbilly Elegy was that the only people that can be openly mocked in polite society anymore are dumb, fat white people from the South and Midwest.
Pointing to idiocy doesn't give anyone knowledge. It just gives a spotlight and pedestal to the idiot who will interpret the attention as justification for folly and makes the person bitching about look like they think they are superior. It is Idiocracy all around.
I watched this clip this weekend. It is insanely long. I found it interesting because it is two smart people from totally different backgrounds than most on this board who reached the same conclusions -- people don't even speak the same language anymore. It is all two movies on the same screen. Idiots storm the capitol and feel justified. Idiots on twitter claim it was about race. Idiots in the capitol are like, "Race? we are talking about a global cabal of child molesters!" And we are all dumber for it.
Watch it or don't. I don't care.