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I just had a really jarring experience that I’m cautious to tweet about because I fear it’ll hurt my career but I’m going to share it anyway

After a series of questions about it, the (male) presenter asked why anyone should care because politicians have been lying for years. And then — THEN — implied I may not know that fact (and that I only care about this issue because it’s on social media) because I’m too young

The direct quote: “speak to a few people older than you and you will see that politicians have been fabricating things for decades, it’s just it’s now moving to newly available platforms”

I can’t describe how weird it is to be live on a programme I was asked to come on because of my expertise and be patronised like this. If I was a white man, this wouldn’t have happened