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Some politics?
May. 11th, 2012 10:18 amI know I don't talk politics too often, but I had something of a revelation.
So I was watching this. Which, is pretty fantastic and Rachel Maddow is AMAZE.
But a while after I had a revelation: I'm not liberal because I'm a queermosexual or female. While that helps, I've mostly more liberal because I am actually out in the world.
It's incredibly easy to espouse conservative beliefs if you are in a bubble. And this isn't necessarily a privilege bubble or anything like that; it's a bubble where you cannot actually see the hardship of anyone who is not you. If you've ever been in any sort of rural community, they typically aren't liberal in any way, because they are isolated. And they can be some of the people that the system has shit on the most. But it's about not being able to see beyond your own hell.
And the longer I am out in the world, meeting teachers from defunded schools, choosing friends that didn't go to the same high school as me in the same rural part of a state, the more liberal my thoughts become.
I don't even necessarily want to completely tear the system down and replace it with something else. I'm not even near experienced or compassionate or wise enough to be able to make those kinds of calls.
But I would rather face that there are things that are broken and things that are wrong than pretend they don't exist because I'm benefiting just fine from what is going on.
Because conservatism is really the idea that no matter what, things are just fine, so be quiet and do as you're told.
So I was watching this. Which, is pretty fantastic and Rachel Maddow is AMAZE.
But a while after I had a revelation: I'm not liberal because I'm a queermosexual or female. While that helps, I've mostly more liberal because I am actually out in the world.
It's incredibly easy to espouse conservative beliefs if you are in a bubble. And this isn't necessarily a privilege bubble or anything like that; it's a bubble where you cannot actually see the hardship of anyone who is not you. If you've ever been in any sort of rural community, they typically aren't liberal in any way, because they are isolated. And they can be some of the people that the system has shit on the most. But it's about not being able to see beyond your own hell.
And the longer I am out in the world, meeting teachers from defunded schools, choosing friends that didn't go to the same high school as me in the same rural part of a state, the more liberal my thoughts become.
I don't even necessarily want to completely tear the system down and replace it with something else. I'm not even near experienced or compassionate or wise enough to be able to make those kinds of calls.
But I would rather face that there are things that are broken and things that are wrong than pretend they don't exist because I'm benefiting just fine from what is going on.
Because conservatism is really the idea that no matter what, things are just fine, so be quiet and do as you're told.
