#31124 I lose a bit of sleep over why we have become so politically divided and I'll tell you why. When we get into a classroom and start trying to navigate around what we're told are the most cutting edge political and social issues, you start to see it happen.
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#1 person who is legit trash expresses veiled racism and hurts the feelings of person who isn't ####
#1 because that's how humans feel when their humanity is invalidated. ####
#2 person starts venting about microagressions, like how Apu from the simpsons made their life a living hell because some kids called them Apu in highschool. They feel enraged because microsoft spellcheck puts a red squiggly line under their last name. Truly this is what it means to suffer, eh? Teacher confirms that you are a piece of garbage who needs to sit with the racist kid if you disagree.
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#1 kid who never had these discussions until now, says something ignorant. They're told they need to check their privilege. They don't know how to react because they lived their entire childhood in a trailer and became homeless as a teen before their father was killed in a car accident and left enough life insurance for college tuition. Lucky fuck, but too stupid to realize they should've been applying at Interpublic Group immediately and specifying they're ####
#1 instead of cleaning tables at Dairy Queen.
This is what happens when people start making their ethnicity and even skin color an IDEOLOGY that defines most of how they feel in life. And what really kills me, is I've seen so much candid footage on social media of people like that hanging out amongst close friends and family and they act EXACTLY as ANYONE would. Exactly like you or me do around friends and family. When we let our guards down and speak heart-to-heart to one another and see each other in that context, it’s amazing how little we care about each other’s flaws, eh? Why can't we learn to just go into that mode whenever we start coming together instead of comparing who experienced the most microagressions this week, or why that one guy needs to be fucked off forever for having the audacity to harass a girl by asking for nudes in a text five years ago?
When we all start to focus on each other's flaws and mistakes OF COURSE we're going to start disliking each other more. But unless you're an infallibly perfect purely ethical being who deserves all the fucking respect in the world, YOU also have flaws. Most everyone tends to, and that's ok. Nothing wrong with loving someone for what good is in their heart. Obviously if someone's ACTIONS are fucked up, like they molested someone, beat up a gay guy, went on a racist rant, joined an alt right messageboard, voted for trump because they think he's a wonderful person who isn't a covert muslim like Obama, treat women like objects, etc, then OF COURSE they need to be taken to task.
But most microagressions...and stuff like expecting someone to think you are important JUST for being ####
#3, or expecting your ego to be stroked JUST for being a straight ####
#1 guy who works hard, or telling the autistic fat guy with a beard to fuck off because he mansplained twice at work, etc...these kinda sound less like examples of oppression and more like...personal problems. While it must be exhausting to feel the need to be stressed out over trivial stuff like that all the time, you can make the choice to either let it get to you, or use things like EMPATHY, HUMOR or CONSTRUCTIVE reactions to those situations to make things better, right?
I feel like this is what's going to bring us together again. If someone really has gone too far and did some fucked up repugnant shit...sure, maybe they shouldn't be invited to ever hang out again. And yes, conservatives, if you voted for trump because they genuinely like his stance on social issues, your political and social opinions should probably never be valued again. Sorry if that stings a bit, but you'll be fine. But it's all these bullshit papercut first world problems that make us fuck each other off at the slightest sign of a potential traitor in our midst...caring about any of this shit is what's got to go. Then maybe we can start TOLERATING each other’s annoying quirks again (instead of making the broad assumption that any negative quirk is a systemic tell of that person being unredeemable dog shit. PEOPLE ARE MORE COMPLEX THAN THAT) and see each other the way we see our closest friends and family. As long as we aren't heartless...as long as we have basic common goals in life (positive, constructive ones), why not support each other?
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#1 - Racial classification specifier, used for people of Caucasian ancestry, with the exact implications dependent on context.
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#2 - In racialist anthropology, the color brown and the term brown people were used to describe a series of hypothesized racial groups that included various populations from North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Western Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, North America and South America.
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#3 - A term used in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification or of ethnicity, to describe persons who are perceived to be dark-skinned compared to other given populations.
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