• PugJesus@piefed.socialOP
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    As someone who’s white-passing and was trained from an early age to be polite and quiet, I’ve always known there’s a great deal of racism hiding beneath the public facades of many people. But fuck’s sake. The past ten years have been devastating for my general faith in humanity.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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      When you start life by seeing it from the very bottom and at its worst … nothing ever disappoints you because you always saw it for what it was and is.

      I have no words of wisdom for it all … just a profound acceptance that the world has always been like this