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[yakalskovich]

When I first saw this, I thought 'Well, hee hee'; then I thought, 'Hey wait, saphyria and alchemistseraph  live there as well, and if anybody says they deserve tornadoes, I'll be up with an axe against them.

A related discussion erupted all over my corner of tumblr, with one lady especially chiming in again and againNow I wonder whether it might be the other way round:

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[silveraspen]

There is a significant difference between being a religious person and being a judgmental holier-than-thou ass. In part simply that the latter are noisier and draw more attention. I happen to be the former; I hope I am not and never will be the latter.

That doesn't mean I'm not utterly blind with anger and disappointment right now at the sneering misrepresentation of weather patterns and "you deserved it" attitude that's all over that "infographic

[yakalskovich]

Sorry, I didn't want to offend you (or anyone) personally by posting the link to that graphic.

And yes, I meant 'judgmental holier-than-thou asses', really. And didn't mean to imply that anybody deserves natural disasters, as that would be stooping down to the level of the people who said New Orleans deserved Katrina for its many and historical sins. I personally think anyway that we don't get what we deserve. Nobody gets what they deserve; people only get what they get, The End. When people says 'They got what they deserved', they really mean that they approve of what these other people randomly happened to get out of the randomness of one thing happening after another.

I was merely wondering about the correlation, which is very visual and quite striking.-

[silveraspen]

Correlation does not equal causation. :)

[saphyria]

*needs a Like button*

Being earnest.

[saphyria]

Coming from a largely poor, agricultural state and yet being a well-educated academic, I take offense when anyone assumes that I am ignorant simply on the grounds of being from the South and having an accent. Yet, they do. And, being a Progressive, Liberal, feminist, gun-owning, religious person (yes, my family tends to scare both sides of the aisle) who is nevertheless proud of where she comes from, I admit I tend to bristle whenever anyone seeks to oversimplify the situation of the South and its people

[yakalskovich]

Wales!! I must tell Sal that she lives in the safest place of the world. **grins**

And no, you're not coming on too strong. What you say makes a great lot of sense. Thanks for taking the trouble of writing all that.

[saphyria]

As a history buff, I had a section on why Arkansas came out even poorer than other Southern states after the Reconstruction due to the lack of loans from Northern states, which effectively ended Arkansas's reconstruction a decade early. But I cut it out for length. >_>

Seriously, Wales gets rain, mist, sun, snow, and little else. Just have to watch out for the occasional alien invasion. :D

[yakalskovich]

I would have been quite interested in that section.

(And against the alien invasions, they have Torchwood, of course.)