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#my uni was liberal leaning but eh
the-prince-of-tides · 3 years
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Without getting into specific brands of each identity, without getting into the nitty gritty, the simplified version is this (based off American politics and sociopolitical identities), as of CDTH:
Henry Cheng: social democrat with a focus on economics and business (UBI, minimum wage, anti-corporation, etc)
Blue Sargent: social democrat with a focus on human rights and environmentalism (BLM, climate change, pro-indigenous/migrant rights, feminism etc)
Richard Gansey III: neo-liberal working his way towards social democracy (supports BLM but doesn’t agree with rioting, agrees that the police forces in America needs to change but hesitates to generalise all cops, etc)
Adam Parrish: libertarian (believes in the American Dream/idea of the self-made man, if he can do it you can do it, distrust in overall authority, has classist pitfalls due to upbringing and trauma)
Honourable mentions:
Noah Czerny: most likely finds politics boring but generally agrees with whatever Blue says
Ronan Lynch: finds politics gross and says anarchist things but in actuality, doesn’t actually give a fuck (as in he’s Very Apathetic) and would rather talk about something else because all politicians are liars and yeah. (If you took his anarchist comments seriously, I’m sorry but 😬😬😬😬)
There are loads of details and nuance and exceptions that can be discussed pertaining to each label and what each character believes down to the last spec of dust but yeah, as far as canon goes, this is about as accurate as it’s gonna get without making too many far-fetched assumptions.
So yeah. Adam IS the most conservative of the friend group. Nothing else really makes much sense. I’m glad I missed the era of commie memes that apparently circulated tumblr about him. No, I will not be accepting criticism. ✌️
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prynnehesters · 4 years
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where i went to uni, ppl were super sensitive and they were always on high alert for everything, but then that made people who were not that level afraid and it was more of (mostly) white cishet men feeling “othered” (even though they weren’t, they were just everyone that isn’t like them-phobic)
there was also people of all kinds of backgrounds being overly sensitive to others and then other fears going through peoples heads, but then again, the city i lived in was the liberal place in a conservative area, and even then, i was afraid and i hid a good chunk of my identities because of the fear of othering. i had lgbt friends, but i was afraid of being openly gay (or any of the identities i held at the time). i was in multicultural clubs, but i was afraid of presenting as that and i was so glad i was white-passing. i just remember being afraid of telling people that (at the time) i used they/them pronouns and that i wasn’t a white girl and it was just something i was so scared of, despite being in a liberal college setting
i’m more sure of myself now, but i feel like im in a more conservative area. i thought this area would be more liberal, but like, it’s pretty conservative. i live with a bunch of white christians who lean more conservative who seem to have a hard time of “understanding” gay people and then there’s people who constantly contradict themselves. there’s a crew of people who seem like my kind of crowd, but like...eh. i dunno. i just feel like people here are ignorant and they just...don’t understand
i dunno...it’s a weird thing. i remember someone asking about kids who aren’t sure about their gender identity and that being answered poorly. i also remember some people getting offended that kids were asking my gender and i was giving them vague replies. also, there was a trans staff member here about a year ago and they were treated poorly and the way they talk about this person is horrid. 
i feel like being a closeted gay person is hard, but being a openly trans person is even harder. i feel like people are weirdly obsessed with you because you’re different. i feel this as a jewish person and as a lesbian. and i hate it so much. i really need some lesbian friends. there’s one coworker i have, who is a lesbian, but in college, i felt like i was competing with other lesbians, so most of my lgbt friends were trans men and bi women. i just felt shunned by lesbians and gay men...and now i wish i was around those people so badly. 
please take me back gay people. i hate straight white christians. unfortunately, the field im currently in has so many of them
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