I fit the internet SJW stereotype to an uncomfortable degree, but I don’t really identify with it (which makes sense, given that it’s a shallow idea of a person designed by people who dislike them).
At the same time, I absolutely do not fulfill the stereotype of the American in Germany, and people are often very surprised when they hear that I am.
Do you fit or break a lot of stereotypes?
you sound like you belong in one of those leftist small cities they have in the midwest.
the coastal elite leftists would eat you alive. they hate poor people more than anything else.
Those smug coastal elites made me become a black Conservative during my time in college and two years after.
I’m glad I grew up since then.
Yeah I live amongst a lot of coastal elites, they don’t get it at all.
Spouse and I have Michigan as one of our five year plan possibilities!
i went to Harvard and i come from a poor family that is uneducated.
I’ve regularly had interactions where I was told I should kill myself my entire adult life but supremely bitter rich kids who are super angry I’m smarter/more driven than they are. basically only made friends with international students because they didn’t care about how rich my parents were.
But I like living in a big city, so I just suck it up. There are no people like me here. They all got priced out, but I make enough to afford it and I ‘pass’ but as soon as anyone finds out my upbringing they HATE me. It’s so bizarre how much resentment they have towards poor people. The whiplash of ‘oh you went to HARVARD you must be so AMAZING’ to ‘you poor rural piece of shit you should just die’ is wild.
I didn’t go to Harvard, but I hear you words - I don’t have an accent or sound uneducated so I get “passing”.
I think because of it we see the worst - we see their scorn without any kind of filter, why would you hold back if you’re talking to someone who isn’t a part of that class?
There are more of us out there!