tfw a big account you admire RTed your tweets and you need to check them again and again to see if there’s anything problematic 
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Replying to @vec2_code_witch
I try to tweet every now and then something along the lines of "Hey, I'm an almost middle-aged white dude so naturally I used to be awful" and hope that anyone who goes back as far as March 2008, when I joined, takes that into account.
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Replying to @JohnSeaborn
Oh I do too. I’m only active on Twitter from 2016 but young adult me was, should we say, “ideologically diverse”. I was always fluctuating between liberal and libertarian and I watch a lot of US comedy so naturally absorbed some anti PC rhetoric.
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Replying to @vec2_code_witch
I was still in my 'edgy white guy' phase up until 2012 or so, and then I was still a pretty milquetoasty liberal until 2016. I could prevent future embarrassments by shutting up forever, but as a mediocre white man, I've been conditioned to believe my every utterance has value.
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Replying to @JohnSeaborn
I was conditioned to be the equivalent of a mediocre white man (I’m of the majority ethnicity in my country from an affluent region after all) and my English skills mean I read/watched a lot of US stuff. I actually am lucky I got out fine. In another timeline I could be like IMC
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Replying to @vec2_code_witch
Yep, same. If not for having the tiniest bit of empathy and listening to marginalized voices, I could've gone the way of either one of the Chuck Johnsons, both of whom are very bad.
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Yep. In my case it would be doubly worse. Cos I would be an incel sitting in my incel corner blasting feminists and SJWs, all the while repressing my gender identity. I still keep a screenshot from apparently such a person from 4chan to remind myself
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