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Hope for the best in people, but do what's best for you.
a month ago
(CW: politics, prejudice, mental health.)
I'd like to preface this journal by saying I'm of the opinion it's well within any artist's right to "get political" whenever they please. The only thing I can do when someone in my life starts acting hostile towards vulnerable people, is utilize that information to quietly remove them from my life. I can't control their beliefs and behavior, they don't owe me anything, but I can control my own actions and responses to it.
I've been dwelling on this a lot, and I've had to brace myself for any negative responses I may get here, because I'm about to touch upon sensitive subjects that are very personal to me. My hope is that my sharing my own experiences and feelings, other vulnerable people might stumble on it and know they aren't alone:
I'm finding that more and more of the artists I grew up watching and emulating in my VCL days are vocally prejudiced. I must have had my head in the sand, because I never knew how far back it goes. I interacted with a lot of them growing up, and had no idea. I just feel so lucky I didn't see it back then, because it probably would have completely crushed me.
As a young queer person growing up with autism in the pre-2000's, I already felt desperately ostracized; if artists I respected had targeted me for those things back then, like I see them doing now, I can't express how deeply it would have affected me. I was, and am, an overwhelmingly sensitive person.
It's taking me a very long time, but I've had to accept that I can't change beliefs and behaviors of prejudiced people, and honestly I'm too tired to debate that "even" as a queer person, I deserve to be treated with basic human rights and dignity. It depresses me how many people in the last year I've had to step away from, but ultimately it's best for my mental health.
So rather than causing more discourse in the world, I want to focus my energy on helping others, and I'm earnestly asking everyone that if they haven't already, they consider the same in their own lives.
Much love, and thanks to everyone for reading and your continued support.
♡ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ♡
I'd like to preface this journal by saying I'm of the opinion it's well within any artist's right to "get political" whenever they please. The only thing I can do when someone in my life starts acting hostile towards vulnerable people, is utilize that information to quietly remove them from my life. I can't control their beliefs and behavior, they don't owe me anything, but I can control my own actions and responses to it.
I've been dwelling on this a lot, and I've had to brace myself for any negative responses I may get here, because I'm about to touch upon sensitive subjects that are very personal to me. My hope is that my sharing my own experiences and feelings, other vulnerable people might stumble on it and know they aren't alone:
I'm finding that more and more of the artists I grew up watching and emulating in my VCL days are vocally prejudiced. I must have had my head in the sand, because I never knew how far back it goes. I interacted with a lot of them growing up, and had no idea. I just feel so lucky I didn't see it back then, because it probably would have completely crushed me.
As a young queer person growing up with autism in the pre-2000's, I already felt desperately ostracized; if artists I respected had targeted me for those things back then, like I see them doing now, I can't express how deeply it would have affected me. I was, and am, an overwhelmingly sensitive person.
It's taking me a very long time, but I've had to accept that I can't change beliefs and behaviors of prejudiced people, and honestly I'm too tired to debate that "even" as a queer person, I deserve to be treated with basic human rights and dignity. It depresses me how many people in the last year I've had to step away from, but ultimately it's best for my mental health.
So rather than causing more discourse in the world, I want to focus my energy on helping others, and I'm earnestly asking everyone that if they haven't already, they consider the same in their own lives.
Much love, and thanks to everyone for reading and your continued support.
♡ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ♡
KennethGarcia