a lot of the time it feels like it’s a real sisyphean task trying to get the broader general public to care about BIPOC as actual people, rather than just topics of talking points or cheap “gotchas”.
one thing that I feel doesn’t get talked about enough is how marginalized people can too fall for ideologies that are hateful towards them. So many people assume that it’s only white boys who go down alt-right pipelines, and that marginalized people are somehow immune to them. As a marginalized person who has gone through an “anti-SJW”/“anti-woke” phase, I can safely say that that just isn’t true at all.
it’s one thing to witness a marginalized person pander to and degrade themself for bigots who’d have no respect for them either way. It’s another to witness this as another marginalized person who was once just like that.
navigating the internet throughout the mid-late 2010’s taught me that there are very few types of people more obnoxious than edgy white dudes who try way too hard to be funny.
I really wish I could get into more media targeted towards my age group without getting jumpscared by sex scenes or bullshit relationship drama.
I feel like there’s a point to be made about how irony-poisoned edgelord types often turn out to be incredibly miserable people deep down. Like of course it’s hard to believe that anyone who gets off on being offensive, bigoted, and mean-spirited all the time feels genuinely fulfilled in their life.
I find it funny how “no one would even care” is both a pro and a con of posting online as a total irrelevant nobody
I know things like this have already been said, but you’d have to be a total lowlife and shitty person to consider gawking at “lolcows” as something worth wasting your time doing.
The closest I ever get to interacting with fandoms these days is reading analyses and looking at cool fan art. Can’t be bothered with discourse or theories that, more often than not, end up being wrong anyway.
If all it takes for you to “become” racist is being called racist, then chances are, you were always racist.