• BanMe@lemmy.world
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    I bet if I sent this to either one of my parents, they’d be like, “yeah? me too.”

    I am super glad even as I came from white cis parents into a white cis town, I rolled homo and got the minority perspective because otherwise I’d be one of them. My mom really believes “democrats buy off blacks with welfare so they keep voting for them” and other such mind-bogglers I can’t anymore.

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      This is the problem with people who don’t understand social control. Welfare is not a handout from Democrats, it is a mechanism of social control the government uses.

      People are so brainwashed they don’t understand the issues anymore. I wonder why Fox News doesn’t tell the the truth.

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      Not always true, I’m white, cis, and straight born to conservative Christian parents but fell out of that line of thinking by my teenage years. A lot of it really was just learning and understanding history and politics. Making friends with black kids early on might have helped as well.

      As long as you are intelligent you likely would have figured it out on your own.

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        I know I was figuring it out myself even before I had any idea I was queer. This was back in 2018 or 19 when the big outrage was Ukraine aid being held hostage. It took until the second term for me to no longer be civil with anybody who did support Trump. Figuring out that I was queer just put another nail in the coffin that was already sealed shut