Why Republicans Are Terrified of Nonexistent Crime
They need an excuse to violently subjugate liberal cities.
They're not. They're just using disturbances as false flags to indoctrinate fascism.
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Fear and hatred of out-group is a pretty core part of conservatism. They are bad people
This goes both ways to a certain extent. I fear and borderline hate rural people as much as rural people fear and hate city folks. The difference is I have no interest in telling rural people how to run their one horse towns, and I can largely avoid ever going to them. Rural people should show city people the same respect and let us run our own shit. If you think the city is scary then stay home. Same goes for suburbanite morons
There is a codependency between urban and rural areas that mean that one would not work as well without the other, so I hope we can all learn to be accepting of one another.
Urban centralization creates a lot of economic demand with high populations and benefits from efficiencies of scale, but has a higher cost to use land.
Rural areas are lower cost, and the expansive areas have lots of natural resources that can be extracted or be used to farm.
Economically, people may be pushed out of cities either because of the basic cost or cost of the area that people want for themselves, so I think it makes sense why they would grow to resent the cities, disregarding cultural differences.
I see you reacting to that perceived hostility as a second or third order effect, but all that does it create a deeper problem.
I definitely agree with everything you said, but I would say my distaste of rural people mostly is due to detesting their ignorance. City people are far more cosmopolitan, largely because we actually are around all types of people all the time, and being cosmopolitan is something that I think is a valuable trait in people. Rural people often lack that, largely just because rural areas are more homogeneous culturally, which isnt really their fault. However, what is their fault is that their lack of cosmopolitan attitude is generally what leads to them abusing or harming people that are a different race, sexuality, gender ideology, etc.
I cant think of an aspect of city people that is equivalent
I speculate that one equivalent is that city people tend to be more accustomed to manipulation and generally interacting with other humans, especially strangers. Your average rural person probably never meets strangers in a typical day. So if you're a rural person in the city it'd be unbelievably overwhelming, forcing you into a defensive posture.
It also marks you as a rube. You might be perfectly intelligent and well educated but you're vulnerable to being taken advantage of.
City people may come off as cold, manipulative, scary because of it. Unscrupulous people can take advantage of you more easily. You're a mark.
I personally take issue with you continuing the in group vs out group mentality. You're continuing the problem by generalizing. How's your attitude grouping non city folks into one bucket helping anything?
I'd like to be more constructive than my initial reaction, or yours.
We're all people. Not all the people I've met in either area have fit in your boxes of cosmopolitan and non cosmopolitan.
I've known some very racist city people and the same thing from non city people.
You're being part of the problem, quit.
