‘We’ve become such enemies just because of this one man’: South Dakota Farmers Union president
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Brown people scary
Boo!
Farmers employ lots of brown people and even act as refuges for illegal immigrants. They may take advantage of brown people and be racist, but they’re not afraid of them.
Any other ideas?
Brown people with rights are scary
They fear brown people taking over (aka the ‘great replacement theory’) and doing to them what they do to brown people.
They also see PoC as lesser and therefore needing to be lower on the totem pole; if they get rights, or even (gasp!) high-level jobs then they move up the totem pole, which is a violation of the ‘natural order’. And they believe that if the natural order is violated, society itself will collapse.
This. They live in nearly entirely all white communities and rarely see anyone that doesn’t fit the community norm. They have zero empathy for brown people, queer people, etc. because they don’t know any and have been programmed by Fox News to refuse to associate with any even if they came across them.
You don’t even need to be that different. I showed up in a western farming town at 15 years old. My hair was long for a boy, and my ‘city’ clothes got me harassed from the first day I arrived in that town. Isolated morons. The lot of them. They fear anything that is not exactly like they are.