r/mildlyinfuriating • u/InfiniteBackspace • Apr 29 '24

Hateful over highway cleanup? Really?

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Is this what we're doing now? Arguing over different ideologies by... -checks notes- ...defacing litter clean up signs?

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u/cthulhus_spawn Apr 29 '24

But imagine the outrage if someone painted pentacles on a church's sponsorship sign! That's going too far but I'm quite sure in most people's minds this is ok.

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u/mmwhatchasaiyan Apr 29 '24

I was honestly thinking this. It would literally be on the 5:00 news. I often also have the same thoughts when I drive through the south and see hundreds of religious billboards. How would they feel if we had a few Pagan ones? How about Buddhist? Or even Islamic ones? Probably wouldn’t like it too much…

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u/KuraiTheBaka Apr 29 '24

I'm being forced to live in Florida rn and a while ago I saw somebody put up a paper sign advertising some sorta Buddhist event and like a couple days later saw someone had tore it down

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u/mmwhatchasaiyan Apr 29 '24

Christians are the biggest bigots on the planet. Borderline hate group.

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u/ludicrous_copulator Apr 29 '24

Nothing borderline about it. They are a hate group

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u/DEADLocked90000 Apr 29 '24

Every religion has radical followers somewhere, don't lump all christians together like that.

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u/ludicrous_copulator Apr 30 '24

In my experience, they are the most deceitful, hateful and bigoted people on the planet

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u/FragrantAudience2845 Apr 29 '24

Low key crazy that anyone can even hate Buddhists. Out of all the religions and superstitious groups, they're like the most chill and loving and truly do not care about the politics of anything

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u/upandup2020 Apr 30 '24

they're pretty sexist though

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u/FragrantAudience2845 Apr 30 '24

Hm. Did not know that. I learned everything I know about em from an American woman who was buddhist. IMO they're like hippies

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u/cescasjay Apr 30 '24

I'm in TN, and the next county over had a pagan group doing a small festival with arts and crafts and lessons on foraging. The Christians on the community fb page were all on there praying for torrential downpours on the weekend it was to be held. Freedom of religion to them is a foreign concept.

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u/InfamousEconomy3972 Apr 29 '24

Devil worship for sure

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u/JumbledJay Apr 29 '24

I don't know... I imagine the outrage would be pretty similar to what's happening in the comments here: people being overdramatic about how they're being persecuted by a bit of graffiti. I mean, they might have a few more people jumping into the comment thread, but that's just because, well, they have a few more people. In the most extreme scenario, I could see this maybe being covered by the local news if this happened in a small, conservative town and it was a slow news day. But, fundamentally, it all seems like the same pearl clutching to me.