#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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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
#like literally in my entire life I haven't encountered#nearly the same amount of cyncism and distaste towards the fucking charade of a political process in this country among white people than I#have among poc#and even then obviously we don't all have the same perspectives on this shit which idk maybe ties into how handwaving away a given behavior#as like being the sole province of a specific type of person is bullshit and no amount of invoking the specter of disengaged white people#stops that from being the case#but also yeah like what can you say to some argument that amounts to 'well trump's killed more people in the country you're from than obama#did so like i get that neither is ideal but at least one's the lesser evil :) nvm that it directly set the stage for the greater evil rathe#than even nudging things in a different fucking direction :)'#also obviously lower turnout among predominantly working class/minority communities is tied to voter suppression and disenfranchisement but#guess fucking what that shit happens in democrat controlled states too cause *surprise* they're actually really and truly into the idea of#amplifying the interests of upper middle class white people since working people/people of color aren't as big on fiscal conservatism so#actually responding to their needs would be too inconvenient and irritating god forbid actually being beholden to them in any way lmao
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