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What radicalized you?
I've seen this question a lot and I'm sure that on this website there are plenty of open minded and empathetic people, personal experience has just lead me to assume that. Anyway, for me, growing up as a person of color, overweight, and conventionally unattractive, I had experienced more ridicule than any child should ever have to endure. Never approached, always excluded, that was life for me. Constantly being overlooked and unappreciated by others because of the way you were born is such an absurdity that I've never been able to comprehend. I abhor the idea of people being evaluated on their appearance alone rather then their contribution to their community, ideals, ambition, or even personality. Experiencing discrimination at a young age created such a solidified foundation of empathy for me. A good heart is all it takes to be a great person.
Getting treated as porn categories by men i deeply trusted and cared about, men thinking I owe them sex just because they treated me like a human being once or twice, seeing blatant violence against women so normalised, a six month old baby girl getting raped to death in my country, female foeticide, acid attacks, the goma prison outbreak, the rg k...... 3 reply
Being a child of immigrant parents and seeing other kids like me living in poverty and garages. Fearing ICE at 9 years old and watching young kids now feel the same anxiety. I will never be anything close to a deadbeat MAGA.
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The way the mainstream has treated Gaza and the 2024 election has pushed me significantly further left; I used to avoid labeling myself a democratic socialist, now I openly am. Seeing the supposedly moral party that opposes authoritarianism fully embrace a far right country's genocide, fully embrace the far right's immigration policy, and spend an ...... reply
reading this honestly felt like you were talking abt my childhood bc that was how i grew up [sob] i was constantly told to lose weight, grow taller, become 'normal' and shit like that by the adults in my life; my mom, dad, grandma, uncle, aunt, etc. i was overlooked because of how i looked, (lowk ate with this line) and it really became engraved in...... reply
I have a very similar background to you and I completely understand, so I would also say the same! To add, for me it also made me realize I have to love and live for myself because no one else could do it for me. 2 reply
