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Until the age of about 13, when I met some queer folks (I was straight at the time) and some people with undocumented parents, I wore my grandpa’s red hat at school. I was proudly against undocumented immigration and didn’t care much about the environment, though I was friendly with my peers and left-wingers, I just kept my beliefs and they kept theirs.

Well, that eventually changed. My grandpa became more right-wing, I became more leftist and now I am a proud leftist

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[–] aGlassDarkly@piefed.zip 5 points 12 hours ago

You figured it out earlier than I did. I remember “voting” third party in my middle school’s presidential tally because the republican candidate wasn’t “conservative enough.”

It’s easy to be shaped by the opinions of your family when you’re young — your brain isn’t fully developed and they’re your unit. Once you started experiencing other perspectives, and realized they made more sense, you changed. It took me until undergrad to realize my previous beliefs made no sense. Give yourself credit, and stay curious.

[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 27 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

You're in a desert, walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise. It's crawling toward you. You reach down and flip the tortoise over on its back, atheqtpie. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over. But it can't. Not with out your help. But you're not helping. Why is that, atheqtpie?"

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 9 points 16 hours ago

Let me tell you about my mother.

[–] coolfission@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

How were you allowed to wear a cap (that too a political one) in school? I went to a public school and we weren't allowed to wear caps or pull over our hoodies when inside.

[–] atheqtpie@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 17 hours ago

Well i took it off when i entered at the beginning of the day, i should’ve said that

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 10 points 17 hours ago

Do you remember some of your earliest misgivings about going along with your families beliefs? Things that made you go ‘wait a minute…?’

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

What was the thing that made leftism click for you?

[–] atheqtpie@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

When I saw what people were doing to the environment, how bad people were treating other cultures and LGBTQ+ people/minorities, and realizing I myself was being disrespectful when I thought I just had common sense and was "patriotic". Also, I turned out to be bisexual

[–] atheqtpie@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 16 hours ago

Bisexual with a STRONG preference for women

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 12 hours ago

Nice. So basically listening to your built-in feeling of fairness and decency instead of stomping it.

Felt any class consciousness appearing or not yet?

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] atheqtpie@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 16 hours ago