I’ll forever remember my coworker who challenged himself to work through all of his episodes at work and whenever he talked about it his only response was:
Even taking off my commie and anti-racist hats… I cannot understand the uncontrollable urge some white dudes have to say the n-word (all the while telling you they definitely aren’t racist). Even at my worst, when I was a sort of a libertarian asshat who considered myself not racist but didn’t believe in institutional racism… never in a million years did I want to say that word. Like, even in a situation where there would have been zero consequences. I honestly don’t get it.
Oh, you had a libertarian phase too? Mine lasted maybe a month or two before ascending to the more ideologically consistent view of anarchism and then to being a full blown communist a few years later.
Yeah, same. Right libertarians say things about children’s rights/freedoms that sound right if you’ve never been into politics before and that issue’s really appealing if you’re a young kid frustrated at how society treats you with no more autonomy than your pet cat, sometimes less. But if that hadn’t happened I wouldn’t have drifted over to left-anarchism when I figured out right libertarians are self contradictory and bigoted conservatives, and if I hadn’t been interested in arguing with “them damn tankies” I wouldn’t have wound up an ML, so I guess I’m glad it happened.
This. I am ashamed to say that in my youth I used it semi-regularly to describe any person of color that pissed me off in the slightest, and I had a hair trigger. Just raging at the world in any way I could.
I’ll forever remember my coworker who challenged himself to work through all of his episodes at work and whenever he talked about it his only response was:
Even taking off my commie and anti-racist hats… I cannot understand the uncontrollable urge some white dudes have to say the n-word (all the while telling you they definitely aren’t racist). Even at my worst, when I was a sort of a libertarian asshat who considered myself not racist but didn’t believe in institutional racism… never in a million years did I want to say that word. Like, even in a situation where there would have been zero consequences. I honestly don’t get it.
Oh, you had a libertarian phase too? Mine lasted maybe a month or two before ascending to the more ideologically consistent view of anarchism and then to being a full blown communist a few years later.
Libertarian is the first obvious step as an American going “Wait something’s fucked up here”
Especially if you’re from the south
Yeah, same. Right libertarians say things about children’s rights/freedoms that sound right if you’ve never been into politics before and that issue’s really appealing if you’re a young kid frustrated at how society treats you with no more autonomy than your pet cat, sometimes less. But if that hadn’t happened I wouldn’t have drifted over to left-anarchism when I figured out right libertarians are self contradictory and bigoted conservatives, and if I hadn’t been interested in arguing with “them damn tankies” I wouldn’t have wound up an ML, so I guess I’m glad it happened.
This. I am ashamed to say that in my youth I used it semi-regularly to describe any person of color that pissed me off in the slightest, and I had a hair trigger. Just raging at the world in any way I could.
The caucasian urge to say the n-word.
I wish cancel culture was real