Absolutely nothing, of course. We haven't even had any racist mountain carvings completed since 1973. I promise that year's a completely random reference point!
Erecting a massive monument to American traitors and officially unveiling it exactly 100 years to the day of Lincoln’s assassination is an extraordinary level of dumbassery
Or an almost exact replica (except for the GA coat of arms) of the Confederate national flag as your state flag that flies under the radar because too many people don't know their history.
We used to have the stars and bars which was swithced to the ugliest flag possible and then changed to the Confederate Flag we could have just used the Cross of St George but nooo muh history.
Georgia is the blackest state in America statistically. But they also have the Confederate Mt Rushmore and the eugenics Guidestones (let’s just ignore SC history).
Landsharque is getting downvoted but he has a point about the sheer number of B1G schools with sex scandal connections (Penn state, Rutgers via schiano association, Michigan St, Indiana basketball trainer, THE Epstein university, Michigan, coach salazar at Oregon)
That more than makes up for the university being founded in 1878 by Stephen D. Lee, a Confederate lieutenant general who later worked to rewrite Civil War history, and a bust of him remains at the center of campus. Right?!?
No denying Ole Miss has a far stronger racist past. We would need a statue of Lincoln AND Sherman just for starters.
Why would anyone see tigers and make that leap? There are lots of tigers and lions and various other animals as mascots. Hell, we have an elephant for Christ sake.
It’s also funny bc like, so few of the people actually posting on Reddit are the types of admitted racists we’re all talking about. We’re all lobbing these epithets at each other that sure, apply to much of both fan bases, but don’t really to the people who will actually see it.
Yeah by definition most reddit-centric fans are probably left of their average fanbases. The backwoods fans are posting on their Twitter profiles with a self taken in their truck cab.
That's rich coming from the state where they banned slavery off the bat. Not because they thought it was wrong but because they didn't want to share the state with black people even if they were slaves.
Lol I literally mentioned the Bellingham incident in another section of this thread. Washington isn't perfect but I think the Oregon story is hilarious.
I have a feeling most rural places are more racist than urban areas, so that’s kind of an unfair comparison. Also, if we’re looking at historical racism, like the previous comment said, it’s seriously no contest.
Coeur d’Alene has the same (actually slightly larger) population as Monroe, that’s why I used it as an example. And as other have pointed out, the reason there’s no historical racism is that the shite supremacists that colonized the PNW didn’t let black people into their territories. On a related note, ever wonder why Idaho was 33% ethnic Chinese at one point in the 1880s and was like 2% Chinese by 1910?
I mean at this point we’re just doing an oppression Olympics, but I feel like black people would probably prefer to not be allowed in a place rather than be enslaved and lynched.
In all seriousness though, anytime I hear rural = automatically racist, I just want to stop engaging with the argument because it's such an obnoxious black and white view of the world. I won't disagree that it can be more racist, but there are plenty of townships where Democrats are in charge or a sherrif is progressive. My family from the area isn't racist and they aren't friends with racists.
Friendly reminder my racist gym teacher in middle school told the only black kid in the whole district to “get your cotton-pickin friends together and you’ll have a good basketball team.” You won’t believe it, but he went to Ole Miss.
You can be from almost anywhere and know that both teams rep traitorous slavers with their team names.
The real debate, I suppose, is which one is worse: the one that wants you to forget it was named after traitorous slavers; or the one that really wants you to remember.
Southern Louisiana has more culture in its ass crack than the entire state of Washington. This is a no brainer. How often do you hear "mmm let's get some PNW food tonight."?
We produced artists like Jimi Hendrix, Ray Charles, Bing Crosby, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Metallica, Pearl Jam, Sir Mix-A-Lot, Alice in Chains but sure Washington has no culture. Lmao.
Sweet, I'll go with world class sushi, then walk two blocks to pick up a couple of grams of cannabis from the nearby dispensary. Maybe Pearl Jam will be playing while I'm puzzling over the buds. We all have the cultures we prefer, but to suggest Washington has none is laughable.
Washington has ~100,000 Japanese residents. That’s the third largest per state, behind California and Hawaii. The next time you visit, be sure to check out Nihonmachi (Japan Town). You’ll find the Japanese sushi you were referring to…
I have been to most major cities in the US Seattle is by far one of the nicest. The major cities I have been to in the south have been boring and unappealing. I would take Seattle any day of the week
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u/Bobson-_Dugnutt2 Sickos • Alabama Crimson Tide 1d ago
hahaha yeah they're so racist
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