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People really think the south/rural areas have people being giant racist homophobes to strangers... No they save that for people they know or think will agree with them
Here's where you're wrong
Their litmus test for "people they think will agree with them" is just: be a white man.
I am a burly white dude. Tall, big beard, I look like I walked out of the mountains.... Unprompted, some white people will casually say some unhinged rascist shit to me. And have, many times.
One time there was a shooting nearby, a white maintenence worker told me about it, and then without missing a beat goes "it was two black guys shooting at eachother, so much for brotherly love, right?"
Another time, in a gas station up in the sticks, Im buying a can of monster. Some white stranger, unprompted, taps me on the shoulder starts telling me about how the logo is a Jewish letters for the sign of the devil.....
So, no, you dont have to be someone these people know.... you just have to a white man. They assume any white man (especially masculine presenting) is one of them.
Yep this has been 100% my experience too. How do you deal with them?
depends on how much you want to fuck with em, in the case of jewphobia i like to give em a l'chaim.
"oh shit, the jews really are everywhere"
I tend to look like a hippie that was forced to dress up for church and people definitely just assume I'll agree with their racist bullshit because I'm white.
Haha, I would disagree with that. I've had "fuck you, fag" yelled at me many times in rural areas.
Yep, a few feet of the Purdue campus and suddenly started getting called a removed by random drivers
Why is this one removed but the others are not
I had a very similar experience on campus a couple years back, Indiana is not the place to be.
i'm pretty sure i give off "hey, whatever your views whoever you are i'll accept and validate you" vibes in person then, because jesus the titties on a walrus on a jetski christ the things some people have confided in me.