growing up in chicago i always found it very insulting whenever i went to summer camp or whatever and suburban kids and rural kids made jokes about “chiraq” and asked me if i needed to carry a gun to take the train (real question that was asked to me by an ADULT when i was 14). like it was rude and distasteful and obviously rooted in racism and it always pissed me off.
and now in this current moment i’m just so mad. even more mad than i was then bc i was RIGHT those jokes were EVIL that all the propaganda about big cities being these crime ridden warzones are now being used as a pretense to fucking invade my city and terrorize my community. chicago forever
“Chiraq” in particular always makes me so crazy bc it manages to be racist about two places at once
