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Or, and hear me out, that's all bullshit carried over from a time when people still burned witches.
Just saying, it makes no sense for all the scary shit to be isolated in the most easily accessible mountain range in the U.S. yet you never hear people treat the Rocky's with the same mysticism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin-walker
Almost every place has its own myths.
Idk if that carries over to modern perception of the place - nobody every talks about Four Corners being spooky.
I haven't been all over that area, but at night when there's nearly nobody on the road it does have a feel to it.
I'm just saying there's a different vibe to the fears people have of the region, and by saying the Rocky mountains don't have the same vibe you kinda proved my point.
No, I'm saying people who live in the Rocky mountains aren't as superstitious as those who live in the Appalachian mountains.
Ah, the traditionally (and mildly classist and racist) assumption that people out west are somehow mentally superior and more educated, while the people in Appalachia are poor dumb hicks.
Funny how culture shapes our perspectives, innit
Superstition is superstition - you can try to paint this as a class thing but ultimately ghosts aren't fucking real. Seems like one part of the country gets that, the other doesn't.
Where does JD Vance come from, again?
Funny you say that when you have an entire state run by Mormons.
Oooo people who tell ghost stories and urban legends are stupid but we're smart with our magic underwear oooo
I think all religion is superstition - if you actually read what I wrote you'd be able to put that together, but you think I'm being racist because you're missing a few critical brain wrinkles.
No, it's just that you're uneducated.
The trope of the religious, ignorant hillbilly is not only based off of classism, but also racism. There was a lot of mixing of races and cultures in Appalachia, because a lot of people were poor and poor isolated people tend to work together, so a lot of those "ignorant and inpure" hill folk started, horror upon horror, interbreeding instead of keeping the races pure. That's where you get groups like the Melungeon.
Of course, certain types of people, usually with white hoods in their closet, didn't like that, (and the fact these folks tended to unionize and fight back) so they spent a good amount of time spreading a lot of bad rumors about dangerous, ignorant, backwards religious people living in Appalachia.
So you, a judgemental and ignorant person on the Internet, fell for a long standing KKK propaganda talking point.
Incorrect, superstition is always based in woo woo magical thinking/ religion. I'm not interested in whatever bullshit this is, you can keep your 'education' to yourself.
I'm saying that you assuming people from Appalachia are superstitious and backwards is part of a racist propaganda campaign that you fell for.
No point in arguing with fools I guess, enjoy your high horse.
Appalachia is at least 80% white. It is one of the least racially diverse places in the country. Trying to suggest I'm somehow being racist is fucking brain damaged - educate yourself on critical race theory.
Edit: Melungean is a slur by the way, congrats on outing yourself
Weird you're telling someone that something is a slur when you don't even know our culture or are even from here.
Get bent ya KKK brainwashed bigot, you're the one thinking people from Appalachia are all ignorant religious idiots.
Don't need to, wanna know why?
Ghosts. Aren't. Real. Monsters. Are. Human.
Actually, quick question - what's your skin color?
Stories. Shape. Culture. People. Are. Still. Spooked. By. Fiction. You. Bigot.
So you're white, got it.
Whatever dude, make what assumptions or ad homonyms you want, you're still a bigot.
Nope, enjoy your superstitions and acting like you're oppressed.
You're the idiot who read only the first line of a Wikipedia article and assumed something was a slur.
You're the one who thinks people from specific regions of the US are stupid because you fell for Confederate era propaganda.
You're the one who thinks religious people are stupid.
You're the one making negative assumptions on groups of people over things like race, heritage, religion, and location.
You don't get to say "nope" to being a bigot when you're basically textbook.
Superstitious people are stupid, religious people are hit or miss - they're pretty fucking stupid though, by and large.
I can absolutely say nope to all of this because I've heard only white people paint my problems as class struggles. You think you have any room to call me a bigot when you handwave minority issues under the big umbrella of 'class struggle'?
Nope, you're white and part of the people who are desperate to be oppressed - likely because you're a Christian with a victim complex.
'Reclaiming' words doesn't work - that's been proven to be true by the current state of the U.S. . It's historically a slur. Even if it had been reclaimed - you're white. Stop using it.