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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh please don’t be so dramatic no pearl clutching about. I don’t even own any .  That may have been your experience but I bet if you speak to many other white people say In rural meth infested West Virginia they would not have had a similar experience. Love the generalizations[/quote]

I grew up in a town of fewer than 1,000 people in rural Idaho. Our town was absolutely decimated first by the 1980s timber crash, then by meth. Our schools were terrible, to the point that we actually had to sit on one side of the room one year because the ceiling was caving in on the other side, and eventually enrollment dropped so low that they combined the MS and HS. There was about a 30% drop-out rate, and a quarter of the graduating class was either pregnant or already had a baby. Every single family was impacted by either drugs or alcohol or both, and gun violence was distressingly common. I am the person you are talking about above, or the PNW equivalent.

So, yes, I know something about rural poverty, drugs, lack of opportunities, and just how hard it is to break free from a cycle of poverty.

You know what, though? If I were to make a list of my privileges, white would still be on the list. I experienced many other marginalizations, but my race wasn't one of them. Don't use me, and people like me, to prove your rhetorical point because you don't know us and I'm confident you don't care to. [/quote]

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