This is the scariest part tbh and also the reason why I couldnât care less what racist anons have to say
Keep in mind that a lot of these notions of rednecks/hicks/lower-class white folk being racist is often not-so-thinly veiled classism, which is a tool rich white people use to divert attention from the systems they control. While many low-income southern white people are racist and it needs to be addressed, there is no reason why they in particular should be singled out among all classes of white people.
For more on the system of white class politics and the way it relates to race, Iâd recommend White Trash: the 400-year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg and White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism by Kevin M. Kruse.
It bothers the fuck out of me that adults try and take away creative outlets for kids, but would never think about doing that when it comes to sports.
All little kids are actors. All little kids are story tellers. All little kids are musicians. All little kids are creative, are artists.
And to see it just slowly be torn from them so they can âgrow upâ and settle for whatever life the adults want for them, is heartbreaking.
my mom trains teachers and one of her specialties is creativity, and when you give kids creative outlets their performance in everything else improves, including sports. when denied creativity, their grades go down, they act out more, they even have behavioral problems at home, mental illness flourishes- because creativity is a necessity for a developing brain. developing brains NEED that creative outlet.
being told exactly what to do every single day for 12 years genuinely results in different brain chemistry because it creates the same kind of fear that occurs in people like me with ptsd. over time, having others control every aspect of your life results in ptsd. we see it in prisoners and weâre seeing it in students now. our school system requires a lot of rigidity, so the only relief a child may have is music or art class and those two seemingly useless classes can make a world of difference.
in denying kids creativity, weâre literally destroying them. weâre giving them anxiety and depression at alarming rates, and setting them up to fail because we think sports are better than art and music.
And then because we took away that creative freedom, when you let us out of a rigid structured environment to fend for ourselves , we donât know how to handle it .
I graduated trade school a few years back and Iâm STILL struggling to find direction in my life because suddenly NOBODY IS GIVING ME INSTRUCTIONS
Do you know how jarring that is to a kid whoâs spent the last 18 YEARS being told how to do ,what to do, when to do ?!
I was raised to follow directions,not to think for myself.
When you take away the rules and rigidity from someone whoâs programmed to think that way , itâs like youâve flipped their world upside down.
To this day Iâm more comfortable with other people deciding my life than making my own choices because THATâS HOW THEY RAISED US
Iâve heard that this is called âPinkwashingâ, when a company claims to support LGBT issues to sell merch but actually donât care.
the tumblr âtâ in the upper left corner of the website has been flashing pride flags all month as it censors posts with wlw content and deems them âtoo adultâ for minors.
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