>>2907114I've been surrounded by them because I'm a homo who was raised by atheists in Texas (not Austin) which made me socially liberal by default as a general sensibility. Never went to church unless it was a funeral. I can sort of relate to Jennifer Welch who is this liberal wine mom from Oklahoma although I don't actually listen to her. I don't think my life story is very interesting but usually the people who I will reserve hatred towards are smug, corrupt, hypocritical megachurch preachers and people like that. Those guys are like my #1 enemy. Like if you had to pick a nemesis. It's like the villain from Escape From LA. That guy was a great actor because he brought out what is actually ping-ponging around inside the heads of these people. And I'm actually not an edgy atheist (I think maybe people who were raised religious and then become atheists can be edgier).
My attitude towards the average chud though is like whatever. Maybe I'm also a bit arrogant or it was a coping mechanism from pretty early on for me to not care what other people thought about me, which means it's difficult to
hate them like in terms of the emotional energy involved, idk if that makes sense. People I've actually had direct irl experience with either being called a faggot by random strangers on a few occasions (and I don't even come across as that gay) or being threatened (which happened once) have been of lumpen / criminal white guys. I'm pretty wary of guys like with the exception of bikers who are chuds too but I actually get along with them because they have more of an "honor" code in some kind of way I suppose.
>It feels like on this site there's an odd amount of sympathy towards /pol/tards that I just don't understand. Well I was thinking of Caleb Maupin who I'm assuming was raised in some mainline Anglo-Protestant church in the Midwest town where he grew up, and there's some kind of "community" that has been collapsing. But my experience is that the dominant power center of Religious Right politics (which has also been eroding in relative terms) is just comprised of some mean-ass sons of bitches. A certain premise of a lot of left-progressive ideology is built on a Spielbergian caricature of a decent honest Americana but if you allow that these people are just defiantly ignorant and malicious (and also craven and sort of pathetic), then the premise self-destructs. You can either pretend it doesn't exist or come up with some theory rather than actually grappling with it.