#nearly the same amount of cyncism and distaste towards the fucking charade of a political process in this country among white people than I
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thevividgreenmoss · 5 years ago
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I stg I hate making "white people are like" comments cause it usually feels cheap and lazy to me but ykw truly white people love talking about how anyone averse to the idea of voting in general or for given individuals in particular is probably just an immature privileged white person with no skin in the game with a superficial self-obsessed approach to politics or whatever, and while that notion may seem to be contradicted by the (to this point unchanging) fact that people of color are generally way less likely to get involved in the electoral process than white people and also that likelihood of involvement in said process increases with one's wealth/income, it's actually not, it's just privileged white people that ever consciously make the choice to not vote under a given set of circumstances - any errant minorities and poors that may for whatever reason make that same decision instead of ritually playing their part in the election day pageantry and therefore helping uphold our sanctified procedural traditions can essentially be written out of this analysis either because they don't exist or because they're exhibiting privileged white person mentality which means both they and their actions and whatever possible motivations they may have are Not Valid. Or they're too helpless and stupid to know better, in which case they need to be cajoled into acting right by those who know better. I'm woke as fuck by the way
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