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[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Small towns are terrible for this. And racism

[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago

There's a reason cities are more liberal. Turns out being surrounded by different cultures, races, sexualities, and beliefs shows you that maybe they're not so different. In a town of 15k middle American white folks, it's hard to see another culture equally, let alone at all.

Same thing with college. There's no such thing as a liberal or democratic college. It's just that people are simply surrounded by other people. You learn all of those weird rules and things you were taught don't actually hold up, and that everyone is kind of the same