I ticked all the boxes in high school. Ironic-but-not-really fascist, incel, anti-LGBT, anti-abortion, pick a reaction, really. Now I’m happily married, father, Kinsey-1, reading theory, with growing class consciousness and looking to build solidarity with those people that a worse version of myself once dismissed as lesser or ungodly. It took leaving home, developing positive and loving male-male friendships, and being told that I was good enough and worth love irrespective of my accomplishments for me to start to develop the capacity to love others in the same way. Those who have traveled a similar path, what did it take for you?
Grew up in hardcore Pentecostal family, voted for Bush twice, housing collapse moved me away from conservatism and voted for Obama.
Supported Bernie in 2016 but accepted his loss and voted for Hilary. Remained pretty standard MSNBC shitlib until Charleston. Witnessing the tepid response to actual fucking Nazis woke me the fuck up and got me riled and ready to destroy any and all forms of fascism.