My coworkers are typical white Texan suburbanites who haven't faced many challenges in their lives and if they have, they blame their problems on immigrants or the homeless. They live in a completely different reality than a lot of us. They don't have community and they don't want any. They don't want to know about the world, they want a white suburban bubble where they can drive around their massive truck. What they want most of all is to drive off home invaders or have a violent confrontation with a petty criminal at a Wendy's. They constantly espouse fantasies about that. One of my coworkers one time said he wished a school shooter would try attacking a local school, so he could quote "go call of duty" on anyone trying to shoot his kids.
The only things they know about the outside world are instances of propaganda. They're hardly even politically minded people, they're reactionaries in the truest sense. They only operate on gut instinct of nascent white American supremacy. They're empty, hollow people who want complete isolation. They have severely anti-social beliefs and prejudices, constantly making jokes about trans people (I'm nonbinary and they know it), or saying casual racism, or whatever.
They're not threatening to me personally and in fact seem to like me. They don't understand I'm a communist even thought I've said it directly, because they don't have a good concept of what that means. They probably think I'm joking. But I'm not counting on them to defend me if we end up on opposite sides of a barricade.
My coworkers are typical white Texan suburbanites who haven't faced many challenges in their lives and if they have, they blame their problems on immigrants or the homeless. They live in a completely different reality than a lot of us. They don't have community and they don't want any. They don't want to know about the world, they want a white suburban bubble where they can drive around their massive truck. What they want most of all is to drive off home invaders or have a violent confrontation with a petty criminal at a Wendy's. They constantly espouse fantasies about that. One of my coworkers one time said he wished a school shooter would try attacking a local school, so he could quote "go call of duty" on anyone trying to shoot his kids.
The only things they know about the outside world are instances of propaganda. They're hardly even politically minded people, they're reactionaries in the truest sense. They only operate on gut instinct of nascent white American supremacy. They're empty, hollow people who want complete isolation. They have severely anti-social beliefs and prejudices, constantly making jokes about trans people (I'm nonbinary and they know it), or saying casual racism, or whatever.
They're not threatening to me personally and in fact seem to like me. They don't understand I'm a communist even thought I've said it directly, because they don't have a good concept of what that means. They probably think I'm joking. But I'm not counting on them to defend me if we end up on opposite sides of a barricade.