• I had someone talking to me refer to 2020 as when the Black Lives Matter movement started and I just got so mad. I was just feeling like… Movements don’t start when you find out about them and join up. And also where you been? How much had this person been living with their head in the sand? It baffled me

    •  maegul   ( @maegul@lemmy.ml ) 
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      311 months ago

      Yea … it’s a thing … “history and reality are my history and reality” in some sort of narcissistic presumption of being plugged into anything that matters, when in reality, just about everyone knows very little of the totality of what’s bubbling along in human affairs.