I’m at such an intersection of privilege that I don’t think I considered politics in any meaningful way until my early 20s when I got hit with the libertarian propaganda and realized that maybe the police and army are political actually.
I always hear of people doing such great work and being so political in their teenage years ago I wonder if it’s more common for someone to not engage in politics until adulthood line myself or if it’s truly just my position in life that allowed me to be ignorant for so long.
I remember buying a shirt with “fuck politics I just want to burn shit down” when I was around 17 and honestly edginess was I think my entire ideology at the time
7th grade in middle school when I told my (mostly white & christian) classmates on the bus to school that I didn’t believe in God and they all branded me a terrorist because that’s all we heard about politically in the years post 9/11.
Gotta thank them though because that pushed me into being politically aware (although some of you will be shocked to learn I was a /b/ poster all throughout middle school and up until like Freshman/Sophomore year of HS when Obama was running; to me this is not shocking because obviously 99% of /b/ posters during that era and maybe even now are middle schoolers)
Wasn’t a true leftist (read: more left than most liberal) until 10th grade or so, coinciding with my first few jobs lol
Growing up in Western Canada I luckily didn’t get labeled a terrorist for being atheist. I usually got no reaction