It’s always been this way. You’re just upset you have to be confronted with it rather than having it be hidden and silent. Protestors have always been killed or hurt. Immigrants have always been persecuted.
And everyone is political, they just don’t care to make it a everyday of every moment facet of their identity, activist do. Most people are not, and never will be, activists. And that’s fine.
And you don’t win average people over by screaming, crying, and lecturing them how awful they are for not being ‘as upset’ as you are. Or why they aren’t ‘doing anything’. You push them away from your cause.
9/11 is really where the modern world was birthed in terms of American politics.
Sure it’s been terrible in the past, but it hasn’t always been this terrible and for about 30 years or so it has been restrained (Rodney king protests). It went Cold War during this time and most adults 40 and below have known relative peace in the U.S. in conjunction with government sanctioned violence towards our own people.
Don’t twist these ideas with a flawed concept of we “always have done it this way ” as if human society hasn’t progressed whatsoever. With this outlook we would have been living in caves and fields all the way up to now. It’s like oppressive defeatism, and it’s just utterly pointless.
Just because things have been one way doesn’t mean it can’t be changed.
The world is not binary and we can always push forward for positive changes.
Everything is normal.
It’s always been this way. You’re just upset you have to be confronted with it rather than having it be hidden and silent. Protestors have always been killed or hurt. Immigrants have always been persecuted.
And everyone is political, they just don’t care to make it a everyday of every moment facet of their identity, activist do. Most people are not, and never will be, activists. And that’s fine.
And you don’t win average people over by screaming, crying, and lecturing them how awful they are for not being ‘as upset’ as you are. Or why they aren’t ‘doing anything’. You push them away from your cause.
You’re just wrong, but that’s alright.
9/11 is really where the modern world was birthed in terms of American politics.
Sure it’s been terrible in the past, but it hasn’t always been this terrible and for about 30 years or so it has been restrained (Rodney king protests). It went Cold War during this time and most adults 40 and below have known relative peace in the U.S. in conjunction with government sanctioned violence towards our own people.
Don’t twist these ideas with a flawed concept of we “always have done it this way ” as if human society hasn’t progressed whatsoever. With this outlook we would have been living in caves and fields all the way up to now. It’s like oppressive defeatism, and it’s just utterly pointless.
Just because things have been one way doesn’t mean it can’t be changed.
The world is not binary and we can always push forward for positive changes.