After Jared Williams was elected Augusta DA, a lawyer and state lawmaker made an unusual proposal: that the whitest county split from the circuit

  • Mereo@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Prejudiced yes. Racist? No, American is not a race. And yes, I agree that to really know the USA, you need to visit many of its states, but the current state of the country doesn’t invite many of them to visit.

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      1 year ago

      Most states aren’t worth visiting even for people in the U.S. Stick to the national parks and major cities.

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          The problem, as Cody suggests, isn’t visiting them, it’s visiting them and treating them like shit. Littering everywhere, disturbing habitats, going off trails… That’s the problem. If you stick to the path to the waterfall that’s already well-worn, that’s different.

          I also like his point that we act like those were pristine and untouched lands when actually huge numbers of people lived and maintained them before Europeans arrived. They just knew how to keep the land in balance with nature when they exploited the resources.