There’s a truly surreal aspect of this that stretches beyond the needless disparaging and double standards: A lot of people in rural America genuinely believe that big cities are uninhabitable war zones, consumed by violence and controlled by unaccountable BLM militias
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RT @mollyjongfast
“I have to go to New York City soon,” tweeted J.D. Vance during his senatorial campaign. “I have heard it’s disgusting and violent there.” Can yo…
https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1619719510369472512
Large swaths of the population, whose brains are pickled in right-wing news, believe that every major city is a smoldering war zone, and we city-dwellers survive by running furtively between the husks of once great buildings, glass crunching underfoot, to get a soy milk latte
As someone who lives in the rural south I can 100% confirm this. There's a segment of the population that really believes that Portland, literally, does not exist anymore, for example. They're scared to go to Tampa or Miami or Atlanta because they believe that "BLM riots" happen every day. This is absolutely a thing and it's been blowing my mind for a long time.
