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Your insensitivity doesn't make it not exist.
Nor does your hypersensitivity.
The vast majority of people are normal people.
The online world intensifies a tiny percentage of extreme perspectives and actions.
People on the right are very sensitive to picking these very specific types of bad vibes from social media and pushed to them from their algorithms and then attributing it to everyday reality. (Similar problem obviously exists on the left but focused on different issues).
The world is not that bad out here.
The argument that I should become more sensitive to online microagressions and less in tune with the actual social world I inhabit is unbecoming.
You don't need to be hypersensitive to understand that "As a white male, you are a member of a harmful group" is indeed something bad directed at you for being a white male.
We've been through this since ~2014. No, it is not just a few college kids on Tumblr, or whatever.
I just know that I’ve lived my entire life at the epicenter of what you guys seem afraid of, the bluest parts of the country and among college campuses.
I’ve never had anybody say anything or act in any way which would leave me to believe they harbored anything at all towards me for being white, nor have I ever seen this directed at anybody else.
So what am I supposed to do? Cower in fear of something I’ve only seen in extreme online videos? Or just live my normal life with my normal friends and not give a damn about the obsessions of the hyper political terminally online types?
Even if I were concerned with that sort of thing it’s a wave that already had its crest and has been falling since like ‘21. Which holy shit was now 5 years ago, time is moving too fast man…
In the end, just because I believe that certain people are race obsessed losers (sorry, speaking generally here, applicable to both sides), that wouldn’t change my views on things like healthcare spending, environmental protection, the value of scientific research, international cooperation, etc.
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