saltyraconteur
Aug 28, 2017 · 2 min read

I’m neither liberal, conservative, Democrat, nor Republican. Neither do I believe in identity politics. I will say this. I’m 44 years old. I spent 34 years between the Bay Area and Los Angeles, 9 years between Austin and San Antonio, and 1 eye-opening year in New Orleans.

Because of my career field, and just general wanderlust, I’ve also traveled quite a bit of the rest of the U.S. (as well as the rest of our big wide world.)

And I believe that every last person in the United States is a racist. Someone might call me out for using the wrong term, so maybe the word I’m looking for is prejudiced. The racism comes in a lot of different flavors; it just depends on where you are. And to address the P.C./thought police/SJW thing, that’s confined to certain parts of the Bay Area. Sure, if you live in Rockridge in Oakland and get into fistfights at Berkeley Bowl because another lady wearing $150 yoga pants grabbed the last bottle of $20 kombucha, then policing the way other people act, think, speak, dress themselves, their modes of transportation, their religion or lack of, how they raise their children, how they vote, etc, etc IS VERY IMPORTANT. It’s a tight-assed, tightly controlled society.

Not unlike, say, the community of people who belong to the Westboro Baptist Church.

My point here is that I have found that, in general, people are intolerant all over. Group-think is rampant because nobody, whether you live in Berkeley, CA or Evergreen, AL, nobody wants to think for themselves. That’s why this world keeps getting shittier and we keep getting shittier to each other. It’s easier to either be an acolyte of the P.C. movement or the MAGA movement.

Just don’t make me think, man.

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