#Hillbilly Elegy

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[darkfrog24]

Wait wait wait wait WHAT?

Reading Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance.  He just said of his mom and stepdad, “Even though they as a couple had a combined income over one hundred thousand dollars, they always had money problems because they bought things they didn’t need [like new cars and vans].”

Holy WHAT?  Is that why people think we’d be buying houses if not for “stuff we don’t need,” like the avocado toast? There used to be an economy in which two adults who didn’t go to universities could just do that, and did?

#there's a reason for that #WHAT the?! #JD Vance #Hillbilly Elegy #original posts #economics #he wrote Elegy in 2016 and was born in 1984 #became a Trumpanzee circa 2018

[beezstudyoffilm]

Hillbilly Elegy 2020 (7/10)

Dir. Director: Ron Howard

tw: drugs, mental illness, addiction, poverty, sexual themes, language, violence

I wasn't a huge fan of the story by itself, like if I was reading the book, I wouldn't love it, but I rated it so highly because the acting and the cinematography are absolutely beautiful. I do think that this film definitely resonates with some people but it's a little trigger to me and not in a way that makes me feel seen, but in a way that makes me feel sad.

#book adaptation #hillbilly elegy #drama #southern #biography #romance #true story #7/10 #Youtube #coming of age

[alliswyattonthewesternfront]

started and finished Elizabeth Catte's What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia in an hour, hooting and hollering in vindication

I fucking hate being the face of "white poverty" and the patronizing, fake-ass pity of the right and the left. I hate that we are treated as a white monolith, when more people in Appalachia identify as African-American than Scots-Irish. A largely white population does not mean 100% white, and the history of black activists from here should not be erased. I'm sick of being treated like I must not be used to being around non-whites by people from western NY who didn't have a black student in their entire graduating class.

I fucking hate having to constantly correct people on coal industry history, because it IS important, especially in the context of U.S. labor history, but now most of us work at Dollar General, Pizza Hut, or Walmart and it distracts from the shit we need to deal with NOW.

I'm sick of having to explain about the history of anti-slavery and anti-segregation here, because you NEED to understand it in order to understand why Appalachia has been deprived of government aid since the Civil War, and no the War on Poverty does NOT count, shut the entire fuck up. But everytime I explain this to people they want to stop learning there because they want it to absolve them of any guilt, and smugly "not all whites" about it.

I'm sick of seeing the fucking endless stream of photographers that take exploitative photographs of us. That lecture us for being backwards, religious yokels, and then in the same breath condemn any woman who dares to be an unwed mother as morally base. who take photos of us covered in dirt and dealing with injuries we've wrapped up our selves, always implying it is distrust of "newfangled medecine" and not the lack of accessible healthcare.

talk all you want about us being violent, gun-toting hicks that hate outsiders. but if I was Hobart Isom and saw you in the mountains with a camera, I'd probably have shot you too.

Racism, homophobia, xenophobia, transphobia, these are ALL problems here, that need to be addressed and eradicated. But that's everywhere in America! Every single fucking place in this horrible country!! This is not a uniquely southern problem, not a uniquely Appalachian problem. If you don't know about the KKK's second wave and its roots in New Jersey, shut the fuck up and come back later after you've read a few books.

Nowhere in America is safe for trans people. Nowhere. I understand why people point out the especially regressive and dangerous policies that are spreading through the south, but don't act like I won't have to deal with this shit literally anywhere I go. There are more trans teens in West Virginia than anywhere else in the country, are we just supposed to abandon them?

I'm also fucking sick to absolute bastard death of hearing about Deliverance, of the incest jokes, from people who don't know the name Carrie Bell, and how the myth of "degraded pioneer stock" was used as justification to sterilize women against their will in West Virginia.

Don't lecture me about healthcare here if you don't know who Eula Hall is.

If the names Robert Payne and Huey Perry are news to you, maybe go fuck off before you treat Appalachia as your precious white ethno state and erase black activists here. Never fucking talk to me about Hillbilly Elegy unless you're setting up a cage match between me and J. D. Vance. I hope he dies. I hope he dies painfully.

And I am exhausted by these tired, played out caricatures of us being sold back to us. I'm as guilty as anyone of surrendering to shame, of poking fun, of perpetuating the stereotypes either to make money off tourists or to set myself apart from the "bad southerners"

Why don't more of us who can, leave? Why do so many young people here leave for college, only to eventually return sometime after graduating? Because we know our self-appointed social betters will not do anything to change things here. We want better for Appalachia, we want more for the people here, and nothing changes here until we start doing it ourselves. Just look at the eastern Kentucky grassroots prison abolition movement, the Appalachian Queer Film Festival, Appalachian OUTreach. It's exhausting and it never seems to change, and we will keep doing this shit anyway even if it's until the heat death of the universe

#no one is gonna fucking read this and i don't fucking care #Appalachia #east tennessee #blog #long post #hillbilly elegy #north carolina #j d vance suck my nuts challenge

[book51ut]

Review of Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance

oof i have a lot of opinions on this. let me start by saying i picked up this book from the library because it was on my list of books recommended to me over various years. i don't even know who suggested it. i'm quite glad that i got it from the library, because about halfway through the book i got the vibe that Vance was someone who i differed with greatly politically and would not have wanted to support financially in any capacity. after a google search, i was right.

that being said, the book itself really resonated with me. i come from a blue collar neighborhood in new york city, mostly italian and irish american. we are white people, but we aren't WASPs. my parents were some of the only parents i grew up with who went to college. they were the only parents i grew up with who went to graduate school. my parents had me at 33, basically ancient by the standards of my neighborhood. the neighborhood has strong mob affiliations. we are white trash. in this way, the "hillbilly elegy" is very resonant with me. i saw the people around me growing up blame everyone else for their problems. i saw them report no income on their taxes, and take benefits that could have gone to those less fortunate than themselves while driving porches. i see their inherent distrust in the elite. when i was growing up, i resented my background and my accent. i tried my hardest to lose it, to turn a cold shoulder to those who raised me. i saw my parents feel the same way. my parents scorned our own people the same way that Mamaw did. i also saw how generational the mindset of the people in my town was. how generational MY mindset is. my only goal in life is to make my grandparents proud by achieving more than they could. i also feel like i don't see enough conversations around this specific group of people.

that is why this author is so disappointing and ironic to me. he criticizes people for blaming others for their problems, but he does the same. he abandoned all of his ethics and his values to personally get ahead. it seems damning to me. no matter how hard you try to get away, that hunger to benefit yourself at the expense of others comes back. it stays in your bones long after you've treated the infection. i worry that it hides out in me too.

#book review #bookblr #hillbilly elegy #jd vance

[royai]

i know hillbilly elegy is problematic or whatever but i identify so much with this movie on accounta yknow also being from redneck county and a first gen college student. and the addict parent etc etc it just hits so close to home for me (literally)

#text #hillbilly elegy

[passed-out-real]

Amy Adams Filmography Part 5

Sharp Objects (2018)

Vice (2018)

Hillbilly Elegy (2020)

Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)

The Woman in the Window (2021)

#amy adams #Sharp Objects #Vice #Hillbilly Elegy #Zack Snyder's Justice League #The Woman in the Window

[cinematopeia2]

Hillbilly Elegy | Era uma vez um sonho 2020 Ron Howard

#Hillbilly Elegy #Era uma vez um sonho #2020 #Ron Howard

[travsd]

R.I.P. Bo Hopkins

Just heard from Candy Clark that her American Graffiti (1973) co-star Bo Hopkins (1938-2022) has passed away. Why I feel compelled to memorialize him while everyone else is mourning the loss of Ray Liotta (as am I) is articulatable if perhaps a little alienating. While everyone is talking about Liotta, I simply have more to say about Hopkins. For example, while the South Carolina native was…

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#actor #American Graffiti #Bo Hopkins #dead #Hillbilly Elegy #movies #obituary #westerns #William Hopkins

[hanginghope]

hillbilly elegy unlocked trauma i didn’t realize i had

#hillbilly elegy #the mother addicted to opioids bc she was abused as a child and never had a moment to heal or grow #the kid working so fucking hard to do better and the goddamn guilt that comes with #the fucking unrealized poverty of it all #bc you’re in the woods and that’s all you know #fuck fuck FUCK

[cleopatrachampagne]

the prioritization of saying what’s ‘right’ over doing what’s ‘right’ is so painfully obvious sometimes, tbh, and it’s the main reason i’m disillusioned with the idea of the internet as a platform for political change. for example, so many online liberals are extremely concerned with stopping people from using derogatory language about intelligence but so few of them make any effort to do things irl like fight for unionization, labor rights, funding for trade schools and affordable higher education which all actually help people who don’t excel as much at formal education or don’t have the tools to pursue it. i’m not saying language is unimportant or what we say doesn’t have weight but i think using the internet as our main political arena has made armchair activism into an extreme sport which is a very damning flaw to see in modern cultures.

#politics #activism #social justice #unions #workers rights #affordable education #hillbilly elegy #armchair activists #idk

[thatwritererinoriordan]

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[erickaclay]

An audible heartbreak.

I walk a quiet life. Internally, everything’s abuzz, but on the outside, I wonder how nondescript I pull this whole thing off. I was raised on pleases and thank yous and don’t know how to handle voices that accelerate beyond a normal mode of volume. I wonder if this stitching in my fabric will be my undoing. If I can’t stand up for what’s right to simply maintain the peace, then I think I’ve met…

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[don-lichterman]

HILLBILLY ELEGY Official Trailer (2020) Amy Adams, Glenn Close Drama Movie HD

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[ayat-mazloum]

Twice I Needed To Be Rescued. The First Time It Was Mamaw Who Saved Me. The Second, It Was What She Taught Me. That Where We Come From Is Who We Are, But We Choose Every Day Who We Become. My Family Is Not Perfect, But They Made Me Who I Am And Gave Me The Chances That They Never Had. My Future, Whatever It Is, Is Our Shared Legacy.

#hillbilly elegy