Mr.Unsmiley

maybe it's me being a brown woman but i can't comprehend how & why people treat having a racist phase as a teenager as smth okay or a norm

it's def not good but treating people who got better like they're still shitty people is a good way to make them turn back into shitty people

To be fair, as a person of colour myself, I see it like not as a greater moral backbone that I didn't become racist because I came from a community that was against. It was against my own self interest. I'm not saying it's good but if someone changes and grows in a world where racism is a dominant social message then they will always be a fish swimming up river. Good on them for fighting against it.

Fool me once I kill myself on the spot

i think one of the worst things the left wing internet ever did was push the idea that oppression is basically a virtue, and being oppressed is a sign of your morality. it has made it like…impossible for some of you to hold the idea that most people are privileged in some ways and oppressed in others. AND a lot of you seem to have it in your mind that terrible people cannot be oppressed, and that oppressed people cannot do terrible things, which is a dangerous rhetoric to hold imo.

i recently had a thought. which, as you can imagine, was stressful