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TheCaptainDamnIt t1_j5tthn9 wrote

Reply to comment by app_priori in Gov. Moore announces his transportation secretary by GovernorOfReddit

Ha, Yea that’s the same feeling I get when browsing it. In my head it’s As you say very high stung people living in a city for the first time. It’s like a bunch of the sub grew up in the DC suburbs but upper middle class. Another bunch came from the suburbs of some small Midwest city like Tulsa or something and have never seen real city problems. And the rest are leftovers from the last presidential administration. It gets real dog-whistlely in there sometimes.

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CaptainObvious110 t1_j5vys3k wrote

Can you imagine how it comes across to someone that's actually from there? When chocolate is always being complained about by vanilla? It gets so old real quick and it's why I respond the way I do to it.

These are people that don't know what it's like to go to a school that absolutely sucks. They don't know what it's like to be treated like you don't belong in the very city you grew up in. Or being pushed out of a neighborhood where many of your family members once lived. I experienced that and it really, really sucks.

It's not even about race per se, at least I don't want to think that way even if it's being incredibly naive. I think it's a class issue. They treat DC natives as if they are better than us and that absolutely rubs me the wrong way.\

Here in Baltimore I have met people that are a lot more welcoming and friendly. Ironically enough, I was able to finally find peace despite the awful reputation of this city and that truly makes me smile.

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