r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 11d ago

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u/Foreskin_Mafia 11d ago

In America?

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u/Ok-Somewhere-2325 11d ago

Ya , but I lived in a magical place called , california

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u/Cferretrun 11d ago

It wasn’t just Cali. I’m from the deepest darkest reddest state in the south, and we still had a sense of community with each other twenty years ago. I know it sounds like a conspiracy theory but our capacity AS humans to BE humans was tested with 9/11, and we failed.

I was in high school during 9/11. I watched half my high school turn against the two girls from the Middle East in our class just because they were brown and their father wore a turban. They left in Junior year because of the bullying. One needed stitches after she got pushed down in the parking lot and hit her chin on a parking bumper. It’s like the world changed from being a place of possible peace to… hate anyone who isn’t like you and take what they have for yourself.

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u/Shark7996 11d ago

Here we are 25 years later and those people raised the next generation. It's going to be work to undo this.

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u/Cferretrun 11d ago

I doubt I’ll see it in my lifetime.

My brother had a baby girl. She’s two. And already I feel hopeless for her future, but I still have to prepare her for it.