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@Daojoan

"I'm not an activist by my choosing.
I'm one because people won't let me live the blisteringly mundane life I dreamed of as a kid."

~me explaining to a coworker that I don't have a choice of ignoring bigotry and politics

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@VVitchy @Daojoan I'll never get over just how much influence republicans/conservatives still have over america. That whole identity politics thing? Literally manipulated/shaped the vast majority of american minds.

Along with their definitions of what is and isn't "politics". It's crazy. Laws have always determined who lives and who dies. Who is allowed to attack whom. And who gets attacked. It's always been that too.

But somehow they've been able to convince people that targeted groups are..playing the race card, doin a identity politics and/or are jamming politics down people's throats.

It just...is unreal how even today the very concept of self preservation is seen as a political stance. The i don't want to be murdered, left to die, have my rights taken away being seen as..being political.

And i'm talking liberals falling for it. Not republicans. People straight up avoid calling themselves feminists now. Avoid being labeled as social justice warrior, etc.

@VVitchy @Daojoan I'll never get over just how much influence republicans/conservatives still have over america. That whole identity politics thing? Literally manipulated/shaped the vast majority of american minds.

Along with their definitions of what is and isn't "politics". It's crazy. Laws have always determined who lives and who dies. Who is allowed to attack whom. And who gets attacked. It's always been that too.

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@VVitchy @Daojoan Republicans made self preservation for traditionally targeted groups a bad word. And a good 98% of america agreed.

One of the worst parts? You can have a white trans person calling blacklivesmatter a hate group. Women saying feminists are destroying america. Jewish and muslim people pushing against religous freedom for atheists/satanists.

With all of them collectively agreeing that identity politics is a bad thing somehow. Not only giving self preservation the finger. But helping to make sure all our lives are worse off. Even their own.

@VVitchy @Daojoan Republicans made self preservation for traditionally targeted groups a bad word. And a good 98% of america agreed.

One of the worst parts? You can have a white trans person calling blacklivesmatter a hate group. Women saying feminists are destroying america. Jewish and muslim people pushing against religous freedom for atheists/satanists.

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