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#but she grew up in the militarization era of taiwan when china was undergoing the cultural revolution
rubberbandballqueen · 3 years
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watching leftist youtube videos like “can i send this to my parents? wait nope youtuber mentioned they’re trans. wait nope youtuber explicitly supports sex workers. oooo this one focuses on the historical use systemic racism against chinese as a point of comparison against our current focus of systemic racism against latine people-- oh wait nope youtuber used internet slang i don’t want to explain to my parents”
#it's like 'hmm don't wanna have to argue w/my parents abt Whether Trans People Exist or why sex work is real work'#n how doing it doesn't make you dirty or a bad person or anything bc we all have to survive under the crushing weight of capitalism somehow#might still send the video i'm watching to my mom but i also don't want to have to talk w/her abt it afterwards#it's like i think my dad would really enjoy some of the stuff brought up by philosophy tube n contrapoints#but they're openly trans and i don't know how that will pan out with my dad like he'll probably still listen to the ideas#since he's generally pretty good with that sort of thing but i still can't help but get the sense he won't take it as seriously#n also he wouldn't rlly understand the humor they employ since a lot of it relies on heavy internet literacy which my dad is not#with my mom i think english is like her fourth language? after a family of like four different chinese dialects#but she's also not at all literate in internet culture also i meant three different dialects in the prev tag#but my mom's also like a lot more stubborn with her ideology. like she has a masters in philosophy apparently. and for this?#n i have to take very very careful consideration into her very strong national pride as taiwanese which i get i feel it too#but she grew up in the militarization era of taiwan when china was undergoing the cultural revolution#so lately i've been peeling back at the layers and going 'wooow so this is what you voted trump for? are you serious?'#//i'm never not gonna be salty over that she voted trump bc she thought he'd be harder on communist china WHAT THE FUCK MOM THAT'S ALL??????#the good news is that the video i'm watching is critical of biden which i think she'd respond well to#and again brings in a point of empathy with the racist anti-chinese immigration laws that kickstarted the concept of illegal immigration#and it cites its sources like all good youtube videos so like. maybe. maybe. maybe.#the worm speaks
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