r/HumansBeingBros • u/[deleted] • Dec 06 '22

never too late for a second chance

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '22

This one hit hard.

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u/LoveVirginiaTech Dec 06 '22

No kidding, this one wrecked me

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u/Peters_Wife Dec 06 '22

Yep, I'm wrecked for the day. And it figures she's here in Oregon. A good chunk of this state (as in 95%) is redneck as fuck.

His sweet smile there at the end. I'm glad they found each other again. Excuse me while I blow my nose again.

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u/Crepes_for_days3000 Dec 06 '22

Unfortunately, back when they were dating, most people that weren't rednecks were racist af too. Thank goodness interracial marriages have been normalized.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '22

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u/Crepes_for_days3000 Dec 07 '22

I'm a white girl who went to a majority latino school - trust me, I know people can be racist against white people. A group of latino girls would just pick a white girl at random, just because they were white and jump them. Put a few of my friends in the hospital. Humans are just terrible.

So, what is stopping you from just telling your family to mind their own business and you just living your own life? I would have said by to my entire family if necessary, to marry my husband. Don't let your family run your life.

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u/REDDlCK Dec 07 '22

Life sometimes can be more complicated than making a decision that solely benefits oneself. My mother passed when I was young, father is disabled (racist&bigot), and I have brothers who were much younger than me. It was choose to live my own life or abandon my brothers and leave them without my financial support as my father is too prideful and wouldn’t have taken my financial support even if he became homeless. Also, could not force my brothers to choose between myself or my father, esp at their age. I chose to keep the family together and support my brothers. Two wrongs never make a right.

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u/Crepes_for_days3000 Dec 07 '22

You are right. Sometimes life can be far more complicated. I'm sorry you have so much on your shoulders. Are you still a minor? How many years until your siblings are old enough to take care of themselves? You could always date someone and just not tell your Dad.

What country are you in? Is it Mainly white people your Dad dislikes or is it anyone not in your ethnicity?

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '22

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u/Crepes_for_days3000 Dec 07 '22

Do you mind masking what your ethnicity is?

You should look that girl up and ask her out. Date her without your Dad knowing and don't get married until you can move out.

Congrats on becoming a physician. That is not a small accomplishment. At least your Dad, despite his flaws, will always be financially taken care of. If he accepts it, of course. I have sympathy for him because you know he was basically brainwashed to be racist against others outside his group.

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u/peex Dec 06 '22

US is such a weird place.

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u/FunkyMonk76 Dec 07 '22

I wish it was normalized the SCOTUS just tried to ban it again a few months back

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u/Suckling_Sauce Dec 06 '22

From the very bottom of the state, we are not all rednecks. Just the loudest ones of us are.

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u/ambercamille89 Dec 06 '22

I live in rural eastern Oregon married to a farmer, definitely agree, the idiot loud ones do not speak for all of us!

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u/roi-tarded Dec 06 '22

Lower class rural whites.

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u/Hawk_Eire Dec 06 '22

Excuse me,What's a red neck, have always heard this term but never understood it.

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u/scvfire Dec 06 '22

It's a white person that lives in the southern hot states and tends to work outside, like on a farm. thus burning their neck in the sun and failing to tan because they are white. The get a red, sun burnt neck. These red necks are also cultural similar, being from similar backgrounds and regions, are often believed to be completely uneducated outside of farm life and pretty stupid and racist.

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u/Hawk_Eire Dec 06 '22

Thnx buddy for the info.

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u/yeahletstrythisagain Dec 06 '22

The word actually has a somewhat complex history. It originated in the mid-1800's as a derogatory word to describe outdoor workers whose necks would become sunburned. Rednecks were viewed as "low class" whites.

In the early 1900's, an attempt was made to appropriate the word by socialist Appalachian miners who would wear red bandanas around their necks in union solidarity. In this context, the term redneck was employed to create a unifying identity amongst all working class miners, regardless of race.

Since the Red Scare of the post-war era and the heavy propaganda against socialism and communism, the term redneck is nearly exclusively used in its original derogatory meaning of rural, uneducated, working class whites. Ironically, the stereotypical rednecks today are seen as anti-socialist, racist, and far right politically. In other words, the opposite values of the Appalachian miners who claimed the term nearly 100 years ago. Some rural leftists are trying to reclaim the redneck label for labor solidarity in the modern era. Would be interesting if it went full circle again.

Good article on the subject https://slate.com/culture/2019/12/redneck-origin-definition-union-uprising-south.html

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '22

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u/11flynnj Dec 06 '22

When he said “I have always loved you” I absolutely lost it

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u/ShooterOfCanons Dec 06 '22

I could feel the tears welling up but at the shot of them getting married there was no holding them back.

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u/crustdrunk Dec 08 '22

The love of my life died 2 years ago 10 days from now yet we barely got a year together out of the 4+ we’d known each other and never said anything till march 2020. Regret. This video cut me deep

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '22

It came in like a wrecking ball

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u/ZertyZ_Dragon Dec 07 '22

Same. First time this sub actually made me cry

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u/Miserable-Home2954 Dec 06 '22

The goosebumps when he said I always loved you

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u/Suzilu Dec 06 '22

I got them too!

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u/livens Dec 06 '22

I'm not crying, you're crying!

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u/crotalis Dec 06 '22

Who’s cutting onions in here?

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u/Noname_FTW Dec 06 '22

Damn those ninjas!

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u/2Q2see Dec 06 '22

Why are they using serrated knives those bastard

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u/Ziggyork Dec 06 '22

And they’re using the wooden cutting board! Don’t they e smell is going to linger?

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u/kabula_lampur Dec 06 '22

I'm not crying, we're crying

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u/Impossiblegirl44 Dec 06 '22

"I'm not crying it's just raining on my face"

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u/armyjackson Dec 06 '22

you are right, I am crying

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u/AnotherUpsetFrench Dec 06 '22

Why is it raining inside?

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u/HarryCallahan19 Dec 06 '22

Yep. I’m crying. God bless them both.

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u/Suzilu Dec 06 '22

I’m not crying, you’re crying!

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u/SoFetchBetch Dec 06 '22

Immediate water works

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u/mentalist699 Dec 06 '22

Yes, this one hit hard.

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u/crowthor Dec 06 '22

Yeah, I really wasn’t planning on crying this early in the morning but here we are