autismdragon

autismdragon , 6 months ago to Politics in Young voters explain why they’re bailing on Biden, and whether they’d come back

Conservatism isnt “when you are rude”.

autismdragon , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to Politics in Child poverty in the United States just more than doubled. You can thank Joe Manchin.

If we gave them a 52 seat majority, the two most conservative Democrats in the Senate would suddenly become Manchin/Sinemas.

Anyway, its not up to us to .serve the party with our votes. There is no doing our part. Its up to them to earn it by being a useful party.

autismdragon , 10 months ago to Politics in AOC leads call for federal ethics investigation into Clarence Thomas

The best I can say about this is that it might grab the attention of people who aren’t yet aware of Thomas’s corruption, because yeah otherwise this isn’t going anywhere.

autismdragon , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to Politics in Newest "anti-woke" tantrum: Right-wingers don't think kids of different races can be friends

My mom’s anti-racism was very liberal white savior but I will always thank her for the fact that she actively encouraged me to make friends with our black neighbors when I was like 4. I unfortunately still lived mostly in white dominated areas growing up and had very few black acquittances and no close black friends. Though I did have a few close asain friends in highschool I guess. But still, I went to a highschool with like a grand total of two black people, and the one I was friendly with had been adopted by a white family. So while my mom did instill that racism is wrong, i still lacked necessary perspective for a long time. Pretty much didnt really get interested and involved in race issues until I was on tumblr when Mike Brown happened. And I still haven’t really had as many one on one conversations and friendships with black people as I would like.

Idk, maybe I’m being weird about race even with this post. I just kind of regret the fact that being in white dominated areas meant I didnt get to have the kind of experiences that would help me have been better on race earlier. I did at least have no open racists in my family growing up, which was good. And in addition to my mom my paternal grandma has always been proactively anti-racist. Both in a liberal way, but better than the upbringing a lot of white Americans have.

Sorry for the info dump lol.

ETA: OH I should mention that one positive experience with racial diversity in my life has been working with POC children in my past jobs with kids. Thats been beneficial I think. For example I specifically remember viscerally feeling the anxiety my latine students had during the rise of Trump.