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Aella
@Aella_Girl
I've always had an undercurrent of "we just need to try to understand each other" with people I disagree with. Forever. But I'm starting to feel myself losing it with the woke infection. I'm watching myself shut down and curl up and go "actually no just go away." 1/
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
It's surreal and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I think I'm starting to view them as an enemy as opposed to simply misguided. I feel a little grief over this, but this is coming after a *lot* of charitably-attempted interactions with these people. I feel exhausted and done.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
I know this isn't fair. I know that I've always wanted people to try to interact charitably with me. And to be fair I do think I would be happy to have conversations with seemingly Infected people if they were charitable! But I'm absolutely biased now upon just subtle signaling.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Like, I've noticed I've mostly stopped following people with BLM in their bios - not because I disagree with BLM, but because it's been associated with this terrifying and brutal infection that's claiming the minds of so many of my friends. I hate it.
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Alan Lopez @ 🏠
@AlanWritesStuff
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@Aella_Girl
Imagine thinking BLM, a societal expression of disgust over centuries of systemic racism and government sanctioned violence, is philosophically disqualified because your friends seem rude about it.
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Alan Lopez @ 🏠
@AlanWritesStuff
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@Aella_Girl
Yeah well, framing blm as personally cringy to you (a white woman) is exactly why you’re getting (and seeing) those reactions. Being able to hand wave an entire social movement is the ultimate privilege and people get viscerally angry at that FYI
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