Pretty skre even PSOL has MAGA friends
People have mistook me for conservative on more than one occasion because of me having “independent views” and I usually get along just fine even after political arguments with people.
Like, and I need to stress this, I get along arguing with extremely socially conservative or right wing people irl and am usually forceful in calling them out for their bigoted beliefs. I mean it helps that I was raised in a somewhat conservative household but even still I have been praised for my ability to get along with people and make a good impression.
Historically in my hood I’m always calling out bigotry. I remember calling out my neighbor for calling another one “resemblent of the greedy nature of the Jews” when I went to their house and I always argued with the lady who previously lived there who called Irish people micks. I’m always calling out the racist statements made against Arabs and Assyrians by my elitist mother and always am calling out the downright classicism and immigrant elitist attitudes of my parents.
What differs me from a lot of you is that I am very selective and carefully chose my battles and words. I realize that capitalist indoctrination has infected most normal people and that racism is normalized among the wider populace. But not all racist statements are the same and people’s complicated nature comes first. My prior boss is a great example as a black-passing Puerto Rican who kind of buys into slightly racist stereotypes like that black women have drama issues—which does not apply in that workplace with the customer base—or that black peoples bodies are “built differently” and says quite a few sexist things. In real life however he’s incredibly anti-racist as a guy with experience to racism, anti-sexist as someone who doesn’t like when women spoil him and does chorework and child care to help his family, and is otherwise a giant approachable teddy bear. I ultimately got fired from that job due to a misunderstanding that I awoke the worst in him, and guess what, that isn’t true because I’m always calling that bad behavior out. Another time I lost a peer because he was all afraid of a black person and covered for his racism by saying he likes punk rock, a supposedly racially-woke music choice with no baggage.
Unlike a lot of atlas, I can see the humanity of people and can look straight towards people. Of course on atlas and irl the truth is smeared as racist, antisemitic, spiteful, anti-American, and “an example of Cluster B personality”. I hold nothing sacred and using your identity cards on me isn’t going to work because as an immigrant I call out the motherland’s reactionary nonsense all the time. I know what bigotry and reactionary viewpoints look like and I know where it stems from in most people.
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