When Were You...
Added 2020-09-09 15:08:26 +0000 UTC
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I grew up in a household that is liberal but leftist ideas and pan Africanism weren't seen as silly or naive. I got radicalized in high school during the Iraq invasion and then after 2008 crash. I was able to find a home in leftists or "progressive" circles my city and community and online during Occupy and then Arab spring so things took a real shift more left in the last 10 years or so.Even though in Canada we have universal health care we still dont federal minimum wage or universal child care, vison care, pharma care or dental care. I was only able to get those things with full time employment after probationary period finished. Most of my cohorts are also finding live in the city very expensive and many industries wages have not kept up with inflation. Rent and food are very expensive. LIfe as a late 20s or early 30s is very hard and most people end up delaying getting married or having children. I one of the lucky oes
Maimuna
2020-12-20 21:13:15 +0000 UTCI was radicalized during the Obama administration. From when he did nothing to punish the people responsible for the meltdown, reneged on his promise to protect whistle blowers, did little to nothing to curb climate change outside of easily replaceable executive actions, expanded the wars in the Middle East, allowed for the brutalizing of protesters over the Keystone Pipeline, bombed a hospital via drone, maintained a "kill list" for extrajudicial killings and assassination, allowed a public option to die under the ACA, and failed to dismantle the post-9/11 surveillance state or ICE. I was also radicalized by participating in Occupy and seeing the response made by police at protests firsthand.
Clinton Taylor Gibson
2020-09-14 06:15:59 +0000 UTC
