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The best way to reach other groups is to integrate with them. Living, working, and playing together. Sharing third spaces. Urban density and making stuff walkable makes it easier for people of differing groups to mix and interact, which tones down bad behavior.
I’ve thought some about the difference between car traffic and train traffic. When you’re stuck in car traffic everyone else is an asshole and impersonal. When you’re on the subway and “the train is being held by the dispatcher”, you have a moment of shared frustration with everyone around you. The white wall street guy and the black retail person can share a moment and humanize each other a little. Can’t really do that in separate cars.
A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transport
Urban density and making stuff walkable makes it easier for people of differing groups to mix and interact
It’s not enough, you need policy that explicitly attacks gentrification and the segregation of neighbourhoods by income. There are plenty of examples of ghettos in densely-populated areas, both rich and poor.
The white people who grow up and live in all white communities seem to blame non whites so easily, despite never interacting. Whereas the people who live in dense urban centers and other diverse places tend to be more supportive and vote for their rights. Go figure
Don’t make fun of them, you might make them uncomfortable and challenge their antiquated ideals
Wait actually, make fun of them
Bluegrass and folk ain’t bad. Modern country on the other hand…
I was about to say, Skynyrd is actually really fucking good. It’s a shame it’s permanently associated with racist trash
Well it’s kinda their fault for flying the Confederate flag. But I guess that bird you cannot change.
Oh, you’re 100% right. It’s just frustrating that Ronnie Van Zant died, because I don’t think Skynyrd were really associated with that ideology before the plane crash. They were white trash from the South, but they were also a bunch of hippies trying to show that there was more to the with than the racism decried by Neil Young in “Southern Man.”
Such is the duality of The Southern Thing.
Imagine if a modern southern band came out with Saturday Night Special, That Smell, or The Ballad of Curtis Loew today. They’d be outcast as “woke” and promptly disowned.
While true, this is such a boomer humor comic
You should see the other guys who do syndicated political cartoons, they’re freaking awful. I sometimes look at compilations of the weeks political comics and this guy is hilarious by comparison.
Better than Ben Garrison
Yeah but Ben doesn’t even get featured on regular news sites, while some other right wingers do. He’s like the Newsmax to their Fox News
isn’t that the point? it’s a spoof
I dunno, I enjoyed it. Wait, fuck
That’s not a foreign country’s flag. There is no country that ever had that flag. There never was a country that had that flag. That’s a traitor’s flag.
In this context, maybe ideological or non-american would work instead.
It’s the flag of hatred and in support of human suffering.
I said as much.
I had to rephrase it
It was also only the battle flag, and only for some of the Civil war. If they really wanted it to be accurate, it would be square. Unfortunately then it looks stupid and not like a country’s flag, which it isn’t.
I doubt accuracy is of much concern to those who identify as traitors.
Funny hats? You mean red dunce caps?
I left Reddit mostly because of how many obnoxious spambots there were but I’m finding Lemmy to have far more statistically. Literally people like this just spamming old submissions From Reddit. Come on man. Be better.
Did the comic hit a sore spot or something?
I see you have 0 posts. Be the change you want to see in the world.
Pfeffy wants less bad posts. By not posting, they are doing their part!
Hey don’t trash Skynyrd, they’re from the south but that doesn’t mean they’re pro-confederacy.
Yeah that’s why they target Neil Young for his song Southern Man…oh wait
“Watergate does not bother me. Does your conscience bother you”
Nah just okay with govt surveillance apparently.
Nope, try again.
Change multi cultural to American, America was always meant to be a melting pot
Don’t tread on my lack of herbs and spices!
