One thing I don't miss about being in my early twenties is the arrogance I had about ideas, people & my place in the world. I'm comforted to know that there were black woman who wrote & theorized the very "new" & "revolutionary" fresh takes that I believe made me edgy.
Bc learning & unlearning happens in waves, many young people act as if we're learning about the world at the same pace as them. Baby, we been here. Having the prickly conversations with our peers. The people you're "debating" are the one's who've calcified & refused to grow.
People come on here dicks swinging about their "new" ideas that absolutely must not be copied. First of all, cite your sources. Secondly, you're the sweetest to think your rants about how things have to change are original. Generations of people, work & ideas come before you.
"No one is talking about this topic except me" - a 20 year old talking about socialism/ xenophobia/ feminist principles/ invisible labour/ workplace discrimination/ art/ queerness/ intersectionality/ shortcomings of the State/ Blackness etc.
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