The NRA angry-tweeted that a medical journal had a bunch of articles about gun regulation. Rather than thinking about gun violence as a public health issue, they said doctors shouldn’t talk about something they don’t understand.
Docs responded with many, MANY dunks, including photos of them after they’d just fought to save the life of ANOTHER FUCKING GUNSHOT VICTIM.
Considering afterwards they did the whole “city folks don’t understand thing” and then victim blamed abuse and assault survivors, I’m pretty sure it was a condescending remark.
Oooh yikes. Yeah, I just saw that.
Sure bro, I could TOTALLY have just switched schools, when my family got a transfer my doctor had to write a letter for just so I could GET physical therapy in school at all. There was totally somewhere else to go.
Which makes the city remark even weirder.
I’d imagine in a rural setting it’s even HARDER for a disabled kid who is being abused to get away from the one monstrous special ed teacher who is hurting them because there is literally no one else.
So
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This is actually a thing that drives me nuts every time I see “city people are just condescending classist dicks”
Like, it’s not that I don’t think there’s a problem, Im absolutely sure there is.
But I work in disability rights, and a fuckton of disabled people living in rural areas? Desperately want to move to the city, for access to medical care and accessible transportation.
I’m not saying “rural people have privilege” or something but… if you are rural and nondisabled, and you live in the country by choice… think please before you decide someone living in the city exists purely to look down their nose at you.
Having grown up in a rural area and moved to a city, most people I encounter who know I’m from a rural place aren’t bad. And moving to the city to access resources is something I totally get, since I moved so I could get a job, since there aren’t as many where I grew up.
On the other hand, I had a discussion with a friend about who needs guns who said something about areas like rural Alaska, where you may need guns to protect against animals as “outside civilization,” so sometimes people in cities have odd ideas about rural areas. Doesn’t mean they’re bad or mean, just that they have certain assumptions, like everyone.
Oh, I definitely understand that people in rural areas may need guns for protection against hostile wildlife! I just get very very tired of people assuming I don’t get that, because I’ve mentioned it several times. It’s like I have to say everything twelve times so people BEGIN TO notice they might be pattern matching.
Hell, my position on guns like ARs right now is “I get that ‘assault weapon’ was absolutely badly defined. While I remain unconvinced that most people need semiautomatics, I definitely think we need to define things better—and at a minimum, we need licensing that allows people to own them if they need them for fending off particularly dangerous and powerful wildlife.”
I’m tired of having to enumerate that in EVERY POST because lazy people like to automatically assume “she’s from the city, she thinks regulation needs to keep guns out of the hands of abusers, therefore she wants to ban guns and wants only cops to have them.”
Dude I can’t even talk to you if you think you know my position better than I do.
I know you get that, I’m not trying to argue your position at all. I don’t make a habit of that, since it is very rude. I’m just talking about people in cities in general and the way they relate to rural areas.
Considering afterwards they did the whole “city folks don’t understand thing” and then victim blamed abuse and assault survivors, I’m pretty sure it was a condescending remark.
Oooh yikes. Yeah, I just saw that.
Sure bro, I could TOTALLY have just switched schools, when my family got a transfer my doctor had to write a letter for just so I could GET physical therapy in school at all. There was totally somewhere else to go.
Which makes the city remark even weirder.
I’d imagine in a rural setting it’s even HARDER for a disabled kid who is being abused to get away from the one monstrous special ed teacher who is hurting them because there is literally no one else.
So
???
This is actually a thing that drives me nuts every time I see “city people are just condescending classist dicks”
Like, it’s not that I don’t think there’s a problem, Im absolutely sure there is.
But I work in disability rights, and a fuckton of disabled people living in rural areas? Desperately want to move to the city, for access to medical care and accessible transportation.
I’m not saying “rural people have privilege” or something but… if you are rural and nondisabled, and you live in the country by choice… think please before you decide someone living in the city exists purely to look down their nose at you.
Having grown up in a rural area and moved to a city, most people I encounter who know I’m from a rural place aren’t bad. And moving to the city to access resources is something I totally get, since I moved so I could get a job, since there aren’t as many where I grew up.
On the other hand, I had a discussion with a friend about who needs guns who said something about areas like rural Alaska, where you may need guns to protect against animals as “outside civilization,” so sometimes people in cities have odd ideas about rural areas. Doesn’t mean they’re bad or mean, just that they have certain assumptions, like everyone.
This seems like a bad idea re fire safety and just making sure kids get to where they need to be on time.
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