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I’m happy to be white, conservative and well educated.

Stay in another state that’s more… culturally enriched.

What does that mean? Because it sure reads like a euphemism for "non white".

These are people who, to put it politely, subscribe to Neil Stephenson’s thesis in “In the Beginning was the Command Line”

I happen to think Stephenson was dead wrong, and his example of composite culture was a strawman, and I’m not the only person who does.

Or, you know, they could just be racist.

What? I was replying to the guy that essentially said that the people in Austin are white, Conservative and NON-educated. I went to on explain that there also educated white conservatives…

“Culturally enriched” is a common right wing dog whistle even if you didn’t mean it that way

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