#and that’s the bare fucking minimum but for a bumfuck conservative hellhole town it was impressive at the time

[athetos]

Remembering how vile and fucked up it was that my senior year of high school we had to take a government class and every student had to do a presentation on a “controversial” topic and show both sides to the argument and debate each other. Beyond fucked up that me, a closeted non-binary lesbian, and one of my best friends, a closeted pan trans man, had to sit there and listen to our peers - our friends even - say the nastiest homophobic and transphobic shit and if we showed any passion in our comebacks we would risk outting ourselves to people who were violently prejudiced. I had to listen to one of my best friends at the time say that she thought same sex adoption was immoral. I had to hear slurs left and right and the teacher didn’t even reprimand them beyond “don’t use that word in the classroom.” We had to listen to the most insane right wing rhetoric for an entire month, not to mention a metric shit ton of racist bullshit since all but one kid in my class wasn’t white.

We even took a political alignment test and lined up in the hallway according to our scores. He would read them off and our names and tell us where to stand! Do you know how fucking nerve-wracking it was to be one of only 3 kids out of a class of 25 on the leftist spectrum at all, watching people you are forced to interact with every day glare at you from where they were standing with scores that firmly put them in the Nazi range?? That class was living hell.

#I hate mr basil I hate him I hate him #the ONE good thing he did was that at prom the following year (my ex had been a senior while I was a freshman in college) #he pushed for her and I to be able to go to prom together as a couple #and that’s the bare fucking minimum but for a bumfuck conservative hellhole town it was impressive at the time #anyways #homophobia #transphobia #racism #saving… do not turn off power