Maybe the solution is to stay off Twitter, but it’s very disturbing to see the normalization of slurs happening in real time on there. White people saying the n-word with approval, the return of saying “gay” as a pejorative, lots of casual racism against Indian men, using the r-slur to describe something seen as stupid. I don’t know whether this is a larger cultural lurch to the right, or whether it’s mostly attributed to Musk’s elimination of quality control and monitors on the platform.
I’m a cracker who grew up and lives in a conservative crackerburb outside a coastal city. This stuff is all said by relatively soft, though gender conforming, cishet white guys. Mostly PMC and petite boug, so it’s simultaneously ridiculously bigoted shit while not considering themselves bigoted.
Ah, I’ve never really dealt with that class strata.