I assume by now a lot of people have read the... emotional post I made last night, or its copied form as a comment in the megathread.

I really did log off last night, felt so guilty. Got up this morning, read everyone's comments. Now I feel bad for a different reason. It was sort of dumb of me to get emotional about this, or assume everyone would want me off the site because of my parents or class position. Once again, I was wrong about how people respond to things. I suppose that was me moralizing and not being fully materialistic, or considerate of history.

I'm not going to respond to every comment individually now that I'm reading them. But, looking at them, several of them seem to share similar threads, so I can respond to those general ideas.

"Is this satire or a bit?"- No, truthfully it isn't. It would be easy to say I was joking, but no, I really wasn't. I was legitimately feeling poorly about the whole thing. I felt I had to get it off my chest.

"You're not responsible for your parents or your upbringing, only how you use that to help people."- That's... a sobering perspective. I feared being judged guilty by association. I assumed wrongly again. And with that in mind, I'll do everything I can to help people with my job, or with my materiel wealth. Already planned to anyway, but still.

"Plenty of revolutionaries came from non working class backgrounds and became class traitors."- You know, very, very, briefly, I caught myself thinking, "Yeah, but I'm not as good as them". Then I realized I was engaging in Great Man theory, and I was being too hard on myself. So I guess I can proudly call myself a class traitor then.

"You can do good in law, you know."- Yeah, I know. I thought it wouldn't be enough to balance out being a PMC though, until now I guess.

"Maurice, chill dude."- Probably the most compelling argument tbh.

When I checked notifications this morning, I thought I'd get lots of comments chastising me, or yelling at me, calling me a landlord asshole, or come back here this morning to see a "banned" next to my name. I'm glad it didn't happen that way. I should've been less hard on myself, and less presumptive of some kind of guilt.

Instead, what I got was advice, and, in a sense, acceptance. I'll still do everything in my power to help people given my circumstances. But I won't think that doing so without being poor is some kind of horrible sin that dings me. So thank you to everyone :comfy:

So bottom line? I'm fucking staying here. After all, where else would I go? Reddit? Pffffft.

Also feel free to modify it a bit and make it a new copypasta.

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          3 years ago

          This has been eating at me for the whole week.

          I gotta confess this: my parents are landlords. Yeah, I know. They started a few years ago, and oh god I was a lib back then and even helped them fix up the houses to rent out. They own three houses: one, my chud defense contractor brother rents out, one they rent out to a family, and one they inherited. The first two they renovated. I’ve definitely benefited in a materiel way from that income: parents have talked about helping me pay for college in the future with it.

          I was already raised middle class, (first strike) I’m planning to become a lawyer (PMC, second strike) and now you know I’m the son of l*ndlords (third strike). I deserve the fucking wall, don’t I? No matter what I do to help people, It’ll never erase that, what I am. I’m scum.

          I can’t stay here: what kinda leftist am I? I should just leave, I’ll taint the place.

          I don’t think I’ll delete the account, people like my history posts but, FUCK I don’t know what.

          I feel so so guilty, I’ll check back here tomorrow, I have to log off for tonight at least. I don’t know what I’ll finally decide. Goodnight, everyone. I’m sorry I can’t think of a Maurice sleep Message, but I doubt anyone would want one know that they know the truth.

          I’m sorry, everyone.