When I express things like this to white friends, they often react a little defensively. To them this sometimes sounds like “Fuck white people!” Which is something they hear a lot in movies, TV, and pop music, not to mention literal “race politics” in “the discourse”
This is why I can’t get *that* upset with my racist old piano teacher in Missouri for somehow getting more racist in the last decade She made the same choice as my progressive white friends in SF—find your bubble, then disengage And she had a lot less mobility than they did!
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The “culture war” turned Boomer tradcons into refugees, ideological outsiders Just a couple decades ago, they were the righteous mainstream, and now everyone is (somewhat justifiably) pointing the finger at them for our problems re: race, climate, business
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And even though I think her politics are selfish and unworkable beyond her narrow, homogeneous in-group— I still *like* my racist piano teacher, and she likes me too
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Anyway, 1. We live in a society 2. Love thy neighbor 3. Maybe the real racists were the friends we made along the way
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to add onto the "disengage" part: *most* people do this with *most* things -- get "good enough" and coast. Reasonably so, bc of opportunity cost, marginal returns Unless the sociopolitical 'training' is baked into your bubble (activist friends, etc), unlikely to continue forever
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This is maybe part of the push to have public education material on topics like transgender issues, race and class barriers Wonder how I'd have felt, learning in school a reason I always felt a bit illegible growing up in Literal YT Suburban America, learning how to express that
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