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[CortJstr]

At my high school some popular pejoratives (aside from gay) were texan, southern, and canadian.

[Bobby Isosceles]

Shunning? Well thanks for being all Quaker on us!

Quaker? You're Oat-istic!

[jay-ell]

At my high school some popular pejoratives (aside from gay) were texan, southern, and canadian.

There was a trend here for a while (long after I was out of high school) where some white kids were using "canadian" as a substitute for the "n-word."

When I was a kid, ours were the usual assortment of gay, fag, queer, dork, retarded, spaz, and turd. We occasionally heard Pollock, that's the closest we got to anything racial, but it was a pretty white town. I actually didn't know what the n-word was until I read Huckleberry Finn in the sixth grade.

[Bobby Isosceles]

Quaker? You're Oat-istic!

There should be more grain-based insults hinting at autism spectrum disorders. You have grass-pergers.

[pmcd9]

At my high school some popular pejoratives (aside from gay) were texan, southern, and canadian.

Basically anyone that wasn't you, in other words. Down here it's popular to use Yankee as a pejorative, but that's mostly because all Yankees are assholes.

[jay-ell]

There should be more grain-based insults hinting at autism spectrum disorders. You have grass-pergers.

Your aspergers is graspergers.

Basically anyone that wasn't you, in other words. Down here it's popular to use Yankee as a pejorative, but that's mostly because all Yankees are assholes.

I know you're joking, but when my father-in-law says this, he is not.

[KeithHernandez]

That is definitely a pejorative and not some jokey thing.  That is cause people in the south are closed minded dicks, in general.

[littlefallsmets]

You know, though?

I can at least wrap my head around Juggaloism.

It's an understandable kind of crazy. It's just a batshit extreme distillation of many people's heavy metal phase or something in high school.

I don't understand the degree but the kernel, I can understand the social shaping forces behind it.

Some of the darkest strains of Bronyism seem like things David Lynch thought about putting in a movie and then threw out because they were too unbelievable for a David Lynch movie.

[Bobby Isosceles]

The Darkest Strains of Bronyism is just the best phrase ever.

Sadly, the Darkest Strains of Bronyism are usually indicative of a extreme psychological disorder. That link is full of NSFW-evil.

[Choop]

That is definitely a pejorative and not some jokey thing.  That is cause people in the south are closed minded dicks, in general.

i think two things of that statement. 1) you haven't met terribly many people in the south; and/or 2) one reaps what one sows

[KeithHernandez]

Or I am from the South and A) know that to be true and B) am fuck*ng around. 

Over half of the people I went to high school with would probably just straight tell you they are racist, I once lived with a black guy with a pit bull and only because of this our house was under pretty severe and obvious police surveillance (police are racist, close minded pricks everywhere, granted...).  Lowest education levels equals stupidest people equals biggest sheep. 

Look, I've been a freak in the South and I've been a freak in Denver.  I have not spoken to a police officer or been seriously threatened to fight because of the way I look since since coming to Colorado.  That is not the case where I come from.  Look different, do drugs in a somewhat open manner and carry yourself like you don't give a fuck and see what happens to you in the south.  Then do it someplace that is decent and see what happens.  That said, if you see another freak in the South you know that person is a freak too, and not just some hipster fuck, so I kind of liked that part.

[AugustWest]

Oklahoma isn't the South.  Neither is Texas. 

Sigh.  One more time...

There are racists, morons and assholes everywhere.  In my experience, they're in about the same proportion everywhere you go.

You see, the reason racism is wrong is because you're judging people as a group rather than as an individual.  When you make blanket statements about a group of people based on where they come from or what group they belong to, that's exactly what you're doing.

People from Africa are lazy and dishonest = BAD
People from Asia can't drive = BAD
People from the South are ignorant racists = OK?

You know, the further I go the more I dislike any value judgements about any group of people.

[KeithHernandez]

Yeah, Oklahoma and Texas are like the worst parts of the south, mixed with the worst parts of the Midwest mixed with their own, unique shitty thing, you are right about that.  I'm just saying, I've lived in different parts of the country and at least in one part the racist shitbags feel like they have to hide.  Not true in ok or tx, is all.

[theinevitable]

I've actually always wondered about that asian drivers one. My sense is that driving in Asia is really intense and competitive and fast.  Why do they forget how to drive when they come over here? I have ridden in the car with some stereotypical Asian drivers and... DAMN.

I was reading somewhere that visitors from Asia and Africa are always surprised at the fact that Americans follow traffic laws/signs. Maybe that's part of it?


I am partially with Aug, but I think there comes a point where you can say "the South literally switched political parties because of racial integration efforts, maybe there is some characteristic they have which made this happen."

I agree, there are close-minded assholes in every place. But in some places that manifests in open racism more than others.

[pmcd9]

I've actually always wondered about that asian drivers one. My sense is that driving in Asia is really intense and competitive and fast.  Why do they forget how to drive when they come over here? I have ridden in the car with some stereotypical Asian drivers and... DAMN.

If you are in Asia and you have a car you are pretty well off. That's not your typical immigrant. I suspect most of those who come to America have never driven in their life previously.