Ask Lemmy
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, toxicity and dog-whistling are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !uspolitics@lemmy.world
7) No Hit-and-Run questions.
Please don't delete your post for no apparent reason. If you plan on deleting a question later, say so in the post, or if you feel that you have a good reason to remove it, message a mod beforehand. It's not fair to the ones who took their time to answer, and it's not in the spirit of the community.
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
view the rest of the comments
I've known a handful of juggalos. I can't claim that the ones I've met are necessarily representative of them as a whole.
But I will say that overall the ones I've met have been really solid people. Not the brightest bulbs out there, but also very aware of that fact.
I think the best way to think of them is they're the weird kids you went to school with who weren't smart enough to be nerds. They're a pretty welcoming and friendly group as long as you give them some basic respect, and they really look out for each other. There have been two occasions where one has literally offered the shirt off his back.
Some of them definitely have some drug issues, but the ones I've met are mostly just regular stoners in clown makeup, most of them haven't even been big drinkers.
Juggalos get a bad rap, but I think it's mostly a handful of loud assholes making all the rest of them look bad, I've never had a bad interaction with one and I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.
One of my former best mates is a juggalo, and let me tell you, if you e got a problem they're absolutely the guys you want at your back. Every single one I've ever met has been a stand up sort.
I'd back this up entirely, I know none of them well, but I've met a bunch and none that I've met land outside your characterization.
In fact the awareness, like you said, of being both permanently "off the beaten path", but not usefully so and basically involuntarily - that's such a common thread, and yep I've seen those folks be super generous, too.
Idk I'm ready to start treating juggalos almost as a protected class of some kind lmao, juggalo hate seems to come exclusively in the "I've never really met one but they seem gross" variety.
Maybe a fun way to think about it - give me a choice between dinner with any random juggalo vs dinner with any random American voter, if I really think about it, rolling those dice, I'm picking the rando juggalo every time...
So I sorta see this with subcultures that get negative attention. Back when being gay was looked at as bad generally in society every gay man I met (so uncloseted) was generaly very nice and like you describe with juggalos. As it became more accepted more and more where willing to come out of the closet and now I would not say the typical gay man I meet (I say man because I have not met a whole lot of gay women) is just typical of anyone. Most nice enough, some jerks. I have seen that in furry interactions now a days. Generally nice if you accept them as they are.