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@visakanv
Aella says "as you know", but I've noticed that a lot of the people who get mad at her when her polls go viral obviously don't know her backstory. Her backstory is actually fucking fascinating and almost perfectly positions her to be a social/cultural investigator
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@Aella_Girl
(as you know) I was raised in a borderline cult environment with professionally evangelist parents, homeschooled, limited access to media, taught 6k y/o earth, explicitly expected to be a housewife who homeschooled her own children in the ways of the Lord. 1/
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Visa ✈️ NYC (Feb22–Mar13)
@visakanv
Eg when Aella asks questions like "why is bestiality bad" – people say things like "wtf?!?! that's obviously a fucking bad-faith question, bestiality is OBVIOUSLY bad" – but you have to see that she grew up in an environment where that would've been true re: homosexuality
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Visa ✈️ NYC (Feb22–Mar13)
@visakanv
The funny & kinda exciting thing is that you can't really shame someone like that into silence for wrongthink. Again, think about her backstory. She broke free from psycho-cultural prison. She's not going to stop asking questions because internet strangers think she's out of line
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I like this. When I was growing up we were actively trained in being "warriors against the world." We were told the "world will hate you." We were told we would have to fight people thinking we were insane. I was really comfortable with that idea from a very early age.
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