I’ve lived multiple decades inside white/trad bubbles with varying levels of ideological diversity, and I’ve actually developed a lot of sympathy for white people It’s why I can’t really get properly outraged at uncomfortable microaggressions, or even at open MAGA style bigotry
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Race is confusing AF for white people in The West Atomizing culture and abstruse online social justice movements are rapidly minting new concepts and creating semantic drift in terms that already existed
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New orthodoxies are emerging and changing too fast for anyone to have a comprehensive picture And each year the stakes seem to get higher—cyber-bullying in the early aughts was nothing compared to the brutal doxxing/cancel culture that we live in today
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I’m a Very Online digital native with a decent finger on the pulse of mainstream online discussion, as well as an intrinsic fascination with some of the communities on the fringes (communists, anarchists, queer radicals, revolutionaries, redpill/tradcon ideologues, etc.)
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As a Not White person, I also sometimes get invited into dedicated spaces where people talk vulnerably (and profusely) about their frustrations with race
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In other words, I have a medium-resolution map of the territory that an old person or a white person might have a very hard time replicating And I still have no idea how white people should talk about race
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As a White person, I think the best you can hope to do is find yourself a comfortably diverse subculture, learn their orthodoxies, and be careful not to broadcast too loudly (or at all) on other wavelengths
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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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Replying to @choosy_mom
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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After spending my whole life in the Midwest and South, I felt a surprisingly jarring culture shock when I moved to California There are a lot more Asian Americans here, but they relate with the identity differently bc they grew up with a community and a more legible history
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Replying to @choosy_mom
If I can ask, has that influenced your own sense of AA identity/history? Or have you mostly felt the same as you did before?
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