The Prolific Nature of Social Politics on Persona and the People:

An Adolescent’s Imperfect Opinion Piece

Overtime, as a teenager, I (among others of my kind) have began to notice the emotional and logical societal matrix that we have become to acknowledge as ‘modern politics’. Every four years, or in that duration, there is a strong familiarisation with scandals and facts in elections and debates. Of course though, these are only for the necessary purpose of selecting someone to make the general statements and calls one to be decided by more authorative parties. Nevertheless, never mind opinion, there is a phenomonal influence politics has over our acknowledgement of society, culture and the whole concept of ‘having an opinion’ on its own.

However, is it possible we’ve denounced the presence of opinion as a whole and only considered generalisation? Has this kind of unconstructive stereotypicalisation affected on how the mainstream perceives progressive culture?

I used to be a very naïve social activist a year or so ago (on Tumblr that is) with me encountering these new concepts and hardly making comprehensive opinions of them. That is not to say however that I no longer see white oppression and discriminatory acts against LGBTIAQ+ people as still existing factors of prejudice that remains well today! As a child who identifies as a not-religious, non binary, biracial and neurodivergent, I can highly understand the explanations (even if not said in the most calm or articulate way) having been through some situations myself. As my age progressed a little though, I began to interact with more people of various backgrounds other than my own and I formed my own political opinion… except it wasn’t based on the people of politics.

Instead, I questioned; ‘Why are people with a bloody myriad of differences than me, even if we are the same in one or some senses, placed in such a specified group or margin where they are criticised with plain insensitivty or impoliteness based on a personal belief or statement?’

That would by most probably be heavily criticised itself as being [ insert slur here ] or discriminatory to one group or another, although they barely know my beliefs and experience in whole.

To be frank though, there are moments where it is highly understandable you would want to lash out in light of contradiction! A trans-black woman having been told they way black people praise themselves in light of heavy underrepresentation is racist, or a cis white man having been told that they themselves are the worst people and need to shut up forever and ever completely because one (who looks the same) who was in more parliamentary power may have done something atrocious in terms of immigration or economy which is something they agree on and may have even been in a parade for. In both these circumstances, any of these people being defensive or offensive might have the same amounts of reasonable fact or not to back up their stances but they both had experiences and moral processes (that were not persuaded or forced upon them) that made them think that way.

I’m not saying anything to try and disempower social movements but I believe that in a time where we are so much more aware and sensitive and opiniated we should be open to new experience-spurred statements to calmly and reasonably change or stay firm to our opinion. I’m not trying to say that the only race is the human race, but when they say that race should be an eliminated subject, that whether you are for or against the arguement you not offend them with having that opinion and rather try to understand them and help them understand you.

Let’s make an opiniated landscape where we approach each other with a settled and talkative mind. When we are confronted with negative opinion, we should start with a ‘Hello! Lovely day, isn’t it? How are you?’ so at least we start off without behaving primal with one another like those other predatory animals who I awfully say have not grown quite too different than their old selves; tame them rather than devein them I say.