Other times I feel like I actually *am* being centrist for real 'cause I listen to voices I trust on here from "the other side", and it's truly hard to know who is right. Feel like I'm experiencing some cognitive dissonance...
I don't even identify as a centrist lol, I just get called one so much that I start to internalize it and call myself one even though it's not what I believe
I remember this one time on reddit, I was reaching out to someone as I do, I said I was a centrist, they said what do you believe, i was like "i'm hardcore for bernie and progressive shit", they were "why are you calling yourself centrist then?" i was like "everyone calls me one"
by "reaching out" i mean i was being like "hey i'm someone whose on the other side from you, can you explain your views to me".
and by "everyone calls me one" i mean all the strangers attacking me for my opinions
i thought i'd learned my lesson then but still fall prey to this!
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To be clear, I was thinking not just of the pressure to stay relevant to your supporters, but also just the fact that being mired in this stuff is really toxic and bad for mental health. And also it's literally the same arguments rehashed over and over so it must get *boring*!
As someone whose social life was primarily online growing up, I have thousands of chat logs of myself from the age of 13 and up.
Not only should we not judge people too much for the past, but it can actually be *fun* to go back and look at it!
Or to track growth.
Essentially, what I am saying is, let's turn this permanent public record into a *positive*.
Your online footprint is like a journal of your life. It's all an opportunity to be more open with each other, which should theoretically be good if people can move past judgment.