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Cake day: December 7th, 2024

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  • I don’t like being associated with anti-racism for a single reason - not everyone agrees that both black and white people suffer, and the blame is often shifted on white people as “carriers of systemic racism”. Besides, it is originally about black people fighting for their rights, not white people, and at any point in time black people can note that it’s for and about black people, effectively shaking off the very white people who promoted it - and to some degree, they will be correct.

    We can do better by building a wider anti-racist community. At the end of the day, all we want, as long as we act in good faith, is for everyone to be equal in their rights and opportunities. Black people face racism. White people face racism. Some of it stems from systemic racism, some of it might come from other angles. We should come together not under the banner of Black Lives Matter, not under the banner of White Lives Matter, but from the neutral ground if we ever hope to achieve a society that treats #AllLives as equals.

    This is how these comments come across to me.

    There’s a power imbalance. Feminism is about bringing women up and redistributing the power.

    Men should be able to talk about their issues. And I feel like they usually are. It’s not a problem.

    It’s a problem when it’s done to hijack a conversation about women. Or when it’s done without awareness of the history of the power imbalance.

    A lot of it isn’t to be taken personally and if it is, I think that says something about you. When I hear blame and anger towards privileged groups that I’m a part of, even if I suffer too, my gut reaction is never “but…

    I understand that these movements are reactions to the power, the history, and the general picture.









  • I’ve done this for the past several years. Not on purpose. I keep telling myself I’ll settle down.

    I got a new job a year ago. It looked promising and I was ready to make a life here. But I don’t see myself in it. Leaving soon. Saved enough for modest living and adventurous cheapish traveling for at least a year.

    Before that job I was mostly on the road for a year and a half, with some temporary odd jobs here and there.

    It has its pros and cons. It’s exciting and adventurous. Sometimes it’s intense. I basically have no retirement savings. Super hard to find a partner.