I think the greatest common denominator of people who follow me on this account is being raised within an intense ideological chamber and having escaped in one way or another
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a lot of the people i respect the most know what it's like to feel betrayed by an ideology, and what it's like to deconvert. it's humbling to know you can be full of conviction for years and then realize you were confused the whole time. you take your own beliefs less seriously
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Iāve been recently through a month-long group working through āMe & White Supremacyā by Layla Saad, some of it made me uncomfortable. Per Saad, uncomfortable because white fragility, white apathy or some other white reason but rly it reminded me of church- Dogmatic proclamations
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Watched the group just accept whole-cloth the ideology presented as if itās the truth - the book explicitly tells you that if you donāt understand it or agree itās because of your original sin of whiteness. Trying to parse how much my religious trauma is affecting my exp of it
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