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I think it’s hard to put a finger on one thing. I grew up very privileged and very sheltered. I went to private schools. I didn’t know anyone who believed much differently than i did until i was until college. https://twitter.com/andrewtabner/status/1320919240568934400
And then i think it was a lot of little things. It was making friends who had been marginalized. Who had experienced racism. It was a law and justice class. It was seeing firsthand in medical school that your zip code has more bearing on your health outcomes than anything else.
It was seeing patients treated unjustly. It was hearing my best friend tell me his experiences with polo officers. It was long conversations over dinner with @BenJStone. And then it was watching the Republican Party turn their backs on everything i thought they stood for
Police* ugh
And it was a lot of people on here. Following people who believed differently than i did and weren’t afraid to engage with me. It was learning about how other countries had figured out better ways to do things and wondering why hadn’t we followed suit?
And it was a lot of people on here. Following people who believed differently than i did and weren’t afraid to engage with me. It was learning about how other countries had figured out better ways to do things and wondering why hadn’t we followed suit?
It was a lot of realizing the information I’d been reading was biased and that not everything was the way i thought it was. It was watching the people who’d taught me everything i knew forsake it all for temporary political power. Just one thing after another into a snowball.
This journey has made me uncomfortable. It has caused significant fights with my family. It has caused my father to block me here and literally storm out of dinner. My mom has cried with me on the phone. My grandmother has said i won’t have a fulfilled life in medicine.
It has strained my relationship with “the church” immensely as well. And to be honest i thought i was totally alone until i found @philvischer and his holy post podcast. So yeah. I can’t point to one thing, but the most defining thing was probably Trump being the nominee.
That was the moment where i changed my party affiliation to independent and just stopped believing there was any saving the Republican Party or conservative movement. And after 4 years of this, now i don’t want to.
