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What a free-thinker!
(lemmy.world)
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I wanna coin the term Mississippi self-awareness. I've grown up in rural Mississippi, and I credit it for my extremely left leaning political stances. Im surrounded by the awfulness of conservative mindsets. I hear coworkers complaining about fast food workers making too much money, with the knowledge that Mississippi has the highest rate of poverty in the country, and Im seeing why firsthand. The awful state of health, and the constantly espoused home remedies and junk medical advice that their diabetic mama swore by. So much talk about kids not getting hit enough nowadays. The gun worship, the truck worship, the Jesus worship despite not practicing a word of his teachings, yet no one here seems to be aware of the results of all these awful ideas.
So, the term is Mississippi self-awareness meaning a total lack thereof?
No idea personally, but I spent my youth living in Alabama and there's a common saying they had about Mississippi: thank god for Mississippi. If it weren't for them, alabama would've been the most obese state and the least literate for a few years, though I think they've traded places again now.
Mississippi is just Left Alabama.
Same formula, different chirality
Thanks to Hideo Kojima I understand this comment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_God_for_Mississippi
Ideally, more people like me.
Oh! I think I understand, the self-awareness born from being surrounded by ignorance?
same principle as to how people growing up in religious households are more likely to end up atheist i'd presume
You skipped being a self-awarewolf and went straight to just being self-aware.