As a brown Indigenous person … it doesn’t affect me because I’ve spent my life feeling this way about the world in Canada and the US. They’re great places … if you are white but disturbing, unsettling and sometimes even dangerous if you are any other colour. And it’s been like that all my life.
I’m half Jewish, so white, and able to fly under the radar very easily. I’ve always known there were evil and bigoted people in the world, but what is really knocking me down is watching my own damned family go down that rabbit hole. The non Jewish side are turning into hard core maple MAGA I’m sitting here thinking “What the fuck?? Were they always like this?? Were all the positive experiences with them growing up just an illusion??” These people would literally have turned me in to the Nazi regime in 1930s Germany. Realizing that half of everyone around me are like this just makes me want to quit living.
I’m all the Jewish and am drowning in family who can identify with Nazis. I’ve made documentaries for my family about those who we lost and found due to the Holocaust. But here we fucking are.
As someone who’s white-passing and was trained from an early age to be polite and quiet, I’ve always known there’s a great deal of racism hiding beneath the public facades of many people. But fuck’s sake. The past ten years have been devastating for my general faith in humanity.
When you start life by seeing it from the very bottom and at its worst … nothing ever disappoints you because you always saw it for what it was and is.
I have no words of wisdom for it all … just a profound acceptance that the world has always been like this
As a brown Indigenous person … it doesn’t affect me because I’ve spent my life feeling this way about the world in Canada and the US. They’re great places … if you are white but disturbing, unsettling and sometimes even dangerous if you are any other colour. And it’s been like that all my life.
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I’m half Jewish, so white, and able to fly under the radar very easily. I’ve always known there were evil and bigoted people in the world, but what is really knocking me down is watching my own damned family go down that rabbit hole. The non Jewish side are turning into hard core maple MAGA I’m sitting here thinking “What the fuck?? Were they always like this?? Were all the positive experiences with them growing up just an illusion??” These people would literally have turned me in to the Nazi regime in 1930s Germany. Realizing that half of everyone around me are like this just makes me want to quit living.
I’m all the Jewish and am drowning in family who can identify with Nazis. I’ve made documentaries for my family about those who we lost and found due to the Holocaust. But here we fucking are.
Sorry you’re going through that.
As someone who’s white-passing and was trained from an early age to be polite and quiet, I’ve always known there’s a great deal of racism hiding beneath the public facades of many people. But fuck’s sake. The past ten years have been devastating for my general faith in humanity.
When you start life by seeing it from the very bottom and at its worst … nothing ever disappoints you because you always saw it for what it was and is.
I have no words of wisdom for it all … just a profound acceptance that the world has always been like this