@moonman @matrix I am currently screaming in my head. These are people that are smug about what they perceive is their intellectual superiority to stupid "country folks".

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>be coal miner
>hard work every day
>some of your friend dies in accidents or because of black lung disease
>one day you can't go in the mine
>you're too sick
>you ask the owner of the mine if he can let you have a pay until you get better
>he doesn't listen
>tells you that if you wanted too you'd be doing it
>get home
>your 20 year old son replaces you
>he dies a week later in an accident
>your wife goes in the mine until you get better
>your wife gets black lung disease
>you're not completely healed but you go back and let her rest
>she dies the next year
>2019
>you survived
>you see an old photo in a pub
>your son is in it
>you point it out to someone
>he begins to insult you of being a racist
>you try to explain to him how the conditions were in that time
>he doesn't listen
>he says that if you wanted too you wouldn't be racist
>you don't insist
>you get back home
>dog welcomes you
>you sit on a chair while patting the happy fellow remembering the good times that you had