Fox news parents think every city is an active battleground at all times
I’ve said it before but it’s genuinely so insane to me, living in Chicago, that reactionaries are convinced this place is Mad Max or some shit. regardless of what neighborhood you’re in, even. I think if you sat one of them down and tried to explain that downtown Chicago is just office buildings and fancy bars, either their head would explode or they would accuse you of lying
I’ve lived in Chicago for over a decade now and my aunt and uncle are convinced that I am going to die in a riot. Before I blocked both of them on social media they’d constantly send me news articles about anything bad that happened “in Chicago.”
Places that were “Chicago” included:
Gary (Indiana)
Milwaukee (Wisconsin)
Madison (also Wisconsin)
The Twin Cities (Minnesota)
Fort Wayne (where they both live) (“STAY SAFE” “Aunt Tiffany what the hell are you talking about that’s where YOU LIVE”)
South Bend (Indiana)
East Chicago (that’s in Indiana btw)
Hammond (also Indiana)
Waukesha (Wisconsin)
Racine (the city in Wisconsin, not the blue line stop)
Inglewood (California) (Not Englewood, the neighborhood in Chicago)
Still images from various tv shows
Still images from the movie Chi-Raq (no, they did not see it, and explaining what the Lysistrata is to these people would have been pointless)
South Central LA in 1992 (during the George Floyd protests, my aunt texted me a youtube video she assumed was in Chicago) (it was the Rodney King riots)
