Takoma Park MD if you're not woke

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How do you define “woke”?

Is the opposite “asleep”?

If you want to live somewhere “asleep,” maybe Reston is good for you.

Virtue signaling, dogmatic, ideological people who firmly believe they're on the right side of history and sneer at those who don't agree with them as lesser species. You know, the people who call you racist no matter what you say, transphobic no matter what you say, etc, and that you are the second coming of you know what just for daring to vote differently. They pride themselves for being tolerant and open-minded while simultaneously being the most intolerant and judgmental people.

NP: this is my experience with TPK.

My family's run afoul of them for a few "transgressions," and the experiences have honestly left me so emotionally scarred that I've stopped trying to have any relationship or interaction with our community.

Now, you may think this is a "me" problem for being thin-skinned and weak... and perhaps it is. But I'm someone who was raised in a liberal religion, went to Quaker schools, votes Democrat across the board, doesn't own guns, supports immigration, etc. On paper I am a crunchy liberal. But these people and their toxic combination of affluence and disdain and carelessness, nearly broke my family apart.

There's a very rigid expectation about behavior, perhaps especially among Takoma Park women, that many of us mortals can't meet. Everything is passive aggressive. Tone is important. You should also probably apologize for any white privilege, (or bring up any bipoc ancestors), at least ten times in every conversation. It's performative, stultifying, and not at all fun.

Could you give an example of behavior "expectations" among Takoma Park women? I'm one, and I've never felt any pressure to be anything besides myself. I'm also pretty much the opposite of passive aggressive and I never worry about tone.

What conversations have you had where you needed to apologize for white privilege 10 times in every conversation? I've never apologized to anybody in Takoma Park for being White.

None of this makes sense. I doubt you ever lived in Takoma Park. You're probably a resident MAGA who's bored and slagging off the libs.

And let's just talk about how you capitalize the word "white."

You know who does that? Takoma park liberals and white supremacists. Funny, how liberal overcorrection leads to the same dismal place reached by fundies in Idaho. And by funny, I mean I'm lying: it's not funny.

DP - it triggers you to see White capitalized? Really?? Wow. Dude, it's just a convention. Calm down.

+1. This is getting to crazy land

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you define “woke”?

Is the opposite “asleep”?

If you want to live somewhere “asleep,” maybe Reston is good for you.

Virtue signaling, dogmatic, ideological people who firmly believe they're on the right side of history and sneer at those who don't agree with them as lesser species. You know, the people who call you racist no matter what you say, transphobic no matter what you say, etc, and that you are the second coming of you know what just for daring to vote differently. They pride themselves for being tolerant and open-minded while simultaneously being the most intolerant and judgmental people.

NP: this is my experience with TPK.

My family's run afoul of them for a few "transgressions," and the experiences have honestly left me so emotionally scarred that I've stopped trying to have any relationship or interaction with our community.

Now, you may think this is a "me" problem for being thin-skinned and weak... and perhaps it is. But I'm someone who was raised in a liberal religion, went to Quaker schools, votes Democrat across the board, doesn't own guns, supports immigration, etc. On paper I am a crunchy liberal. But these people and their toxic combination of affluence and disdain and carelessness, nearly broke my family apart.

There's a very rigid expectation about behavior, perhaps especially among Takoma Park women, that many of us mortals can't meet. Everything is passive aggressive. Tone is important. You should also probably apologize for any white privilege, (or bring up any bipoc ancestors), at least ten times in every conversation. It's performative, stultifying, and not at all fun.

Could you give an example of behavior "expectations" among Takoma Park women? I'm one, and I've never felt any pressure to be anything besides myself. I'm also pretty much the opposite of passive aggressive and I never worry about tone.

What conversations have you had where you needed to apologize for white privilege 10 times in every conversation? I've never apologized to anybody in Takoma Park for being White.

None of this makes sense. I doubt you ever lived in Takoma Park. You're probably a resident MAGA who's bored and slagging off the libs.

This is the typical response I get from Takoma Park women when I try to talk about how they traumatized my family. Note the kind, accepting, and welcoming tone?

Victim-blaming is quite popular.

So, you're not going to answer the request for examples where you needed to apologize for white privilege 10 times in every conversation, nor will you enlighten us about your perception of "behavioral expectations" for Takoma Park women.

Guess you're just gaslighting everybody.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you define “woke”?

Is the opposite “asleep”?

If you want to live somewhere “asleep,” maybe Reston is good for you.

Virtue signaling, dogmatic, ideological people who firmly believe they're on the right side of history and sneer at those who don't agree with them as lesser species. You know, the people who call you racist no matter what you say, transphobic no matter what you say, etc, and that you are the second coming of you know what just for daring to vote differently. They pride themselves for being tolerant and open-minded while simultaneously being the most intolerant and judgmental people.

NP: this is my experience with TPK.

My family's run afoul of them for a few "transgressions," and the experiences have honestly left me so emotionally scarred that I've stopped trying to have any relationship or interaction with our community.

Now, you may think this is a "me" problem for being thin-skinned and weak... and perhaps it is. But I'm someone who was raised in a liberal religion, went to Quaker schools, votes Democrat across the board, doesn't own guns, supports immigration, etc. On paper I am a crunchy liberal. But these people and their toxic combination of affluence and disdain and carelessness, nearly broke my family apart.

There's a very rigid expectation about behavior, perhaps especially among Takoma Park women, that many of us mortals can't meet. Everything is passive aggressive. Tone is important. You should also probably apologize for any white privilege, (or bring up any bipoc ancestors), at least ten times in every conversation. It's performative, stultifying, and not at all fun.

Could you give an example of behavior "expectations" among Takoma Park women? I'm one, and I've never felt any pressure to be anything besides myself. I'm also pretty much the opposite of passive aggressive and I never worry about tone.

What conversations have you had where you needed to apologize for white privilege 10 times in every conversation? I've never apologized to anybody in Takoma Park for being White.

None of this makes sense. I doubt you ever lived in Takoma Park. You're probably a resident MAGA who's bored and slagging off the libs.

And let's just talk about how you capitalize the word "white."

You know who does that? Takoma park liberals and white supremacists. Funny, how liberal overcorrection leads to the same dismal place reached by fundies in Idaho. And by funny, I mean I'm lying: it's not funny.

OP, you just need to find a place far away from where this bizarre poster lives. Takoma Park is fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To put it another way: expect toxic positivity or nothing. You can't bring up any criticism of Takoma Park, or any problems your family has had with its denizens. And no, I don't mean it's poorer denizens. They're lovely. But the affluent, well-educated and best-intentioned people are some of the most narrow-minded, regressive, and downright cruel parents I've ever met. Anywhere.

Everyone in Takoma Park criticizes something about Takoma Park - it’s our favorite pastime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you define “woke”?

Is the opposite “asleep”?

If you want to live somewhere “asleep,” maybe Reston is good for you.

Virtue signaling, dogmatic, ideological people who firmly believe they're on the right side of history and sneer at those who don't agree with them as lesser species. You know, the people who call you racist no matter what you say, transphobic no matter what you say, etc, and that you are the second coming of you know what just for daring to vote differently. They pride themselves for being tolerant and open-minded while simultaneously being the most intolerant and judgmental people.

NP: this is my experience with TPK.

My family's run afoul of them for a few "transgressions," and the experiences have honestly left me so emotionally scarred that I've stopped trying to have any relationship or interaction with our community.

Now, you may think this is a "me" problem for being thin-skinned and weak... and perhaps it is. But I'm someone who was raised in a liberal religion, went to Quaker schools, votes Democrat across the board, doesn't own guns, supports immigration, etc. On paper I am a crunchy liberal. But these people and their toxic combination of affluence and disdain and carelessness, nearly broke my family apart.

There's a very rigid expectation about behavior, perhaps especially among Takoma Park women, that many of us mortals can't meet. Everything is passive aggressive. Tone is important. You should also probably apologize for any white privilege, (or bring up any bipoc ancestors), at least ten times in every conversation. It's performative, stultifying, and not at all fun.

Could you give an example of behavior "expectations" among Takoma Park women? I'm one, and I've never felt any pressure to be anything besides myself. I'm also pretty much the opposite of passive aggressive and I never worry about tone.

What conversations have you had where you needed to apologize for white privilege 10 times in every conversation? I've never apologized to anybody in Takoma Park for being White.

None of this makes sense. I doubt you ever lived in Takoma Park. You're probably a resident MAGA who's bored and slagging off the libs.

This is the typical response I get from Takoma Park women when I try to talk about how they traumatized my family. Note the kind, accepting, and welcoming tone?

Victim-blaming is quite popular.

Are you the parent whose middle school child was bullied bc they told a bunch of Black kids to stop using the n word several years ago?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you define “woke”?

Is the opposite “asleep”?

If you want to live somewhere “asleep,” maybe Reston is good for you.

Virtue signaling, dogmatic, ideological people who firmly believe they're on the right side of history and sneer at those who don't agree with them as lesser species. You know, the people who call you racist no matter what you say, transphobic no matter what you say, etc, and that you are the second coming of you know what just for daring to vote differently. They pride themselves for being tolerant and open-minded while simultaneously being the most intolerant and judgmental people.

NP: this is my experience with TPK.

My family's run afoul of them for a few "transgressions," and the experiences have honestly left me so emotionally scarred that I've stopped trying to have any relationship or interaction with our community.

Now, you may think this is a "me" problem for being thin-skinned and weak... and perhaps it is. But I'm someone who was raised in a liberal religion, went to Quaker schools, votes Democrat across the board, doesn't own guns, supports immigration, etc. On paper I am a crunchy liberal. But these people and their toxic combination of affluence and disdain and carelessness, nearly broke my family apart.

There's a very rigid expectation about behavior, perhaps especially among Takoma Park women, that many of us mortals can't meet. Everything is passive aggressive. Tone is important. You should also probably apologize for any white privilege, (or bring up any bipoc ancestors), at least ten times in every conversation. It's performative, stultifying, and not at all fun.

Could you give an example of behavior "expectations" among Takoma Park women? I'm one, and I've never felt any pressure to be anything besides myself. I'm also pretty much the opposite of passive aggressive and I never worry about tone.

What conversations have you had where you needed to apologize for white privilege 10 times in every conversation? I've never apologized to anybody in Takoma Park for being White.

None of this makes sense. I doubt you ever lived in Takoma Park. You're probably a resident MAGA who's bored and slagging off the libs.

This is the typical response I get from Takoma Park women when I try to talk about how they traumatized my family. Note the kind, accepting, and welcoming tone?

Victim-blaming is quite popular.

So, you're not going to answer the request for examples where you needed to apologize for white privilege 10 times in every conversation, nor will you enlighten us about your perception of "behavioral expectations" for Takoma Park women.

Guess you're just gaslighting everybody.

Actually, I was spending time with my family because I have a life... But sure, blame me for gaslighting (? How?), accuse me of being a Republican (again), continue to explain to the forum at large how I am misguided and wrong and you are not. You're certainly proving... "A" point, although not the one you were going for.

[Anonymous]

Behavioral expectations for Takoma Park women.

Recently, in the middle of rush hour, (it was noisy), I had to ask a stranger for a favor in Takoma Park. Had to ask her to move her car. She was sitting in a parking lot on her phone and she'd watched me try and maneuver my own car around hers in a crowded lot--and fail--for several minutes. I waved from my car to get her attention. She looked at me and turned away. I got out and knocked on her window. She opened the passenger side window--the one farthest from us both and asked me what I wanted. I explained. Of course, over the traffic noise, and so she could hear me at all, I had to raise my voice to do so.

She told me she didn't like my tone, and I had no need to be so rude when she was going to do me a favor.

In normal places I'd consider this a one-off, a miscommunication. I'm sure you'll eviscerate me forasking in the first place, or finding something wrong in that exchange. But it's quite typical of TPK.

In my experience living here, you ask for help with a stray cat you're feeding on the listserve, you get a lecture about how outdoor cats are bad. (I don't disagree.) Remember the shortages early in the pandemic? I offered my neighbors some of our supplies and got told that there were more needy and deserving people, and I really should be volunteering to help those less fortunate bipoc instead. Over the years exchanges like this have piled up. No, they're not the worst things in the world, bless their sheltered little trust fund hearts, my neighbors all mean well--but when they're not being remarkably passive aggressive and sanctimonious, they're just so socially constrained and afraid to cause offense that they're poor conversationalists. They don't have opinions, they have slogans. They're less neighbors than they are evangelicals, who are always quick to point out how love lives here and how diverse they are... as long as that doesn't mean they have to deal with fireworks, or anything on the other side of New Hampshire.

I won't convince any Takoma Park lovers... But again, they don't think there's anything wrong with capitalizing "White."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you define “woke”?

Is the opposite “asleep”?

If you want to live somewhere “asleep,” maybe Reston is good for you.

Virtue signaling, dogmatic, ideological people who firmly believe they're on the right side of history and sneer at those who don't agree with them as lesser species. You know, the people who call you racist no matter what you say, transphobic no matter what you say, etc, and that you are the second coming of you know what just for daring to vote differently. They pride themselves for being tolerant and open-minded while simultaneously being the most intolerant and judgmental people.

NP: this is my experience with TPK.

My family's run afoul of them for a few "transgressions," and the experiences have honestly left me so emotionally scarred that I've stopped trying to have any relationship or interaction with our community.

Now, you may think this is a "me" problem for being thin-skinned and weak... and perhaps it is. But I'm someone who was raised in a liberal religion, went to Quaker schools, votes Democrat across the board, doesn't own guns, supports immigration, etc. On paper I am a crunchy liberal. But these people and their toxic combination of affluence and disdain and carelessness, nearly broke my family apart.

There's a very rigid expectation about behavior, perhaps especially among Takoma Park women, that many of us mortals can't meet. Everything is passive aggressive. Tone is important. You should also probably apologize for any white privilege, (or bring up any bipoc ancestors), at least ten times in every conversation. It's performative, stultifying, and not at all fun.

Could you give an example of behavior "expectations" among Takoma Park women? I'm one, and I've never felt any pressure to be anything besides myself. I'm also pretty much the opposite of passive aggressive and I never worry about tone.

What conversations have you had where you needed to apologize for white privilege 10 times in every conversation? I've never apologized to anybody in Takoma Park for being White.

None of this makes sense. I doubt you ever lived in Takoma Park. You're probably a resident MAGA who's bored and slagging off the libs.

This is the typical response I get from Takoma Park women when I try to talk about how they traumatized my family. Note the kind, accepting, and welcoming tone?

Victim-blaming is quite popular.

Are you the parent whose middle school child was bullied bc they told a bunch of Black kids to stop using the n word several years ago?

No, but I remember how kind you were to her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Behavioral expectations for Takoma Park women.

Recently, in the middle of rush hour, (it was noisy), I had to ask a stranger for a favor in Takoma Park. Had to ask her to move her car. She was sitting in a parking lot on her phone and she'd watched me try and maneuver my own car around hers in a crowded lot--and fail--for several minutes. I waved from my car to get her attention. She looked at me and turned away. I got out and knocked on her window. She opened the passenger side window--the one farthest from us both and asked me what I wanted. I explained. Of course, over the traffic noise, and so she could hear me at all, I had to raise my voice to do so.

She told me she didn't like my tone, and I had no need to be so rude when she was going to do me a favor.

In normal places I'd consider this a one-off, a miscommunication. I'm sure you'll eviscerate me forasking in the first place, or finding something wrong in that exchange. But it's quite typical of TPK.

In my experience living here, you ask for help with a stray cat you're feeding on the listserve, you get a lecture about how outdoor cats are bad. (I don't disagree.) Remember the shortages early in the pandemic? I offered my neighbors some of our supplies and got told that there were more needy and deserving people, and I really should be volunteering to help those less fortunate bipoc instead. Over the years exchanges like this have piled up. No, they're not the worst things in the world, bless their sheltered little trust fund hearts, my neighbors all mean well--but when they're not being remarkably passive aggressive and sanctimonious, they're just so socially constrained and afraid to cause offense that they're poor conversationalists. They don't have opinions, they have slogans. They're less neighbors than they are evangelicals, who are always quick to point out how love lives here and how diverse they are... as long as that doesn't mean they have to deal with fireworks, or anything on the other side of New Hampshire.

I won't convince any Takoma Park lovers... But again, they don't think there's anything wrong with capitalizing "White."

Nail on the head. This is a pitch-perfect description of why we moved to DTSS instead. (No, the house was not cheaper, either.)

Also A+ cultural anthropology and damned good writing, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you define “woke”?

Is the opposite “asleep”?

If you want to live somewhere “asleep,” maybe Reston is good for you.

Virtue signaling, dogmatic, ideological people who firmly believe they're on the right side of history and sneer at those who don't agree with them as lesser species. You know, the people who call you racist no matter what you say, transphobic no matter what you say, etc, and that you are the second coming of you know what just for daring to vote differently. They pride themselves for being tolerant and open-minded while simultaneously being the most intolerant and judgmental people.

NP: this is my experience with TPK.

My family's run afoul of them for a few "transgressions," and the experiences have honestly left me so emotionally scarred that I've stopped trying to have any relationship or interaction with our community.

Now, you may think this is a "me" problem for being thin-skinned and weak... and perhaps it is. But I'm someone who was raised in a liberal religion, went to Quaker schools, votes Democrat across the board, doesn't own guns, supports immigration, etc. On paper I am a crunchy liberal. But these people and their toxic combination of affluence and disdain and carelessness, nearly broke my family apart.

There's a very rigid expectation about behavior, perhaps especially among Takoma Park women, that many of us mortals can't meet. Everything is passive aggressive. Tone is important. You should also probably apologize for any white privilege, (or bring up any bipoc ancestors), at least ten times in every conversation. It's performative, stultifying, and not at all fun.

Could you give an example of behavior "expectations" among Takoma Park women? I'm one, and I've never felt any pressure to be anything besides myself. I'm also pretty much the opposite of passive aggressive and I never worry about tone.

What conversations have you had where you needed to apologize for white privilege 10 times in every conversation? I've never apologized to anybody in Takoma Park for being White.

None of this makes sense. I doubt you ever lived in Takoma Park. You're probably a resident MAGA who's bored and slagging off the libs.

And let's just talk about how you capitalize the word "white."

You know who does that? Takoma park liberals and white supremacists. Funny, how liberal overcorrection leads to the same dismal place reached by fundies in Idaho. And by funny, I mean I'm lying: it's not funny.

DP - it triggers you to see White capitalized? Really?? Wow. Dude, it's just a convention. Calm down.

It's not a convention--or it wasn't until very recently. Black is capitalized when referring to a the Black identity. In America, the term has a specific meaning we can all get around: the identification of a group of people of African descent with shared history and culture. That definition includes both the tragedies and the triumphs of a collective past.

Capitalizing the word "white" has the effect of implying that "white" people should have a similar Identity. In Takoma Park, a place full of white people who have very little exposure to how this can go sideways, it probably seems fine. "Equitable," even. But it's not. What you're doing is legitimizing the kind of fake history that imagines there really is such a thing as a white race, and that this thing is a collective Identity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you define “woke”?

Is the opposite “asleep”?

If you want to live somewhere “asleep,” maybe Reston is good for you.

Virtue signaling, dogmatic, ideological people who firmly believe they're on the right side of history and sneer at those who don't agree with them as lesser species. You know, the people who call you racist no matter what you say, transphobic no matter what you say, etc, and that you are the second coming of you know what just for daring to vote differently. They pride themselves for being tolerant and open-minded while simultaneously being the most intolerant and judgmental people.

NP: this is my experience with TPK.

My family's run afoul of them for a few "transgressions," and the experiences have honestly left me so emotionally scarred that I've stopped trying to have any relationship or interaction with our community.

Now, you may think this is a "me" problem for being thin-skinned and weak... and perhaps it is. But I'm someone who was raised in a liberal religion, went to Quaker schools, votes Democrat across the board, doesn't own guns, supports immigration, etc. On paper I am a crunchy liberal. But these people and their toxic combination of affluence and disdain and carelessness, nearly broke my family apart.

There's a very rigid expectation about behavior, perhaps especially among Takoma Park women, that many of us mortals can't meet. Everything is passive aggressive. Tone is important. You should also probably apologize for any white privilege, (or bring up any bipoc ancestors), at least ten times in every conversation. It's performative, stultifying, and not at all fun.

Could you give an example of behavior "expectations" among Takoma Park women? I'm one, and I've never felt any pressure to be anything besides myself. I'm also pretty much the opposite of passive aggressive and I never worry about tone.

What conversations have you had where you needed to apologize for white privilege 10 times in every conversation? I've never apologized to anybody in Takoma Park for being White.

None of this makes sense. I doubt you ever lived in Takoma Park. You're probably a resident MAGA who's bored and slagging off the libs.

And let's just talk about how you capitalize the word "white."

You know who does that? Takoma park liberals and white supremacists. Funny, how liberal overcorrection leads to the same dismal place reached by fundies in Idaho. And by funny, I mean I'm lying: it's not funny.

DP - it triggers you to see White capitalized? Really?? Wow. Dude, it's just a convention. Calm down.

It's not a convention--or it wasn't until very recently. Black is capitalized when referring to a the Black identity. In America, the term has a specific meaning we can all get around: the identification of a group of people of African descent with shared history and culture. That definition includes both the tragedies and the triumphs of a collective past.

Capitalizing the word "white" has the effect of implying that "white" people should have a similar Identity. In Takoma Park, a place full of white people who have very little exposure to how this can go sideways, it probably seems fine. "Equitable," even. But it's not. What you're doing is legitimizing the kind of fake history that imagines there really is such a thing as a white race, and that this thing is a collective Identity.

You actually believe this?? Capitalization of black and white are stylistic conventions that were adopted during 2020. Before then it was commonly accepted to have them lowercase. The reason publications decided capitalize them both, or one over the other, was to signal their virtue and score political points. And that’s definitely not what you’re doing at this very moment…

[Anonymous]

To add to the above, woke PP is saying that it is white supremacy to say that whites have a defined identity at all. So deranged it’s almost funny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you define “woke”?

Is the opposite “asleep”?

If you want to live somewhere “asleep,” maybe Reston is good for you.

Virtue signaling, dogmatic, ideological people who firmly believe they're on the right side of history and sneer at those who don't agree with them as lesser species. You know, the people who call you racist no matter what you say, transphobic no matter what you say, etc, and that you are the second coming of you know what just for daring to vote differently. They pride themselves for being tolerant and open-minded while simultaneously being the most intolerant and judgmental people.

NP: this is my experience with TPK.

My family's run afoul of them for a few "transgressions," and the experiences have honestly left me so emotionally scarred that I've stopped trying to have any relationship or interaction with our community.

Now, you may think this is a "me" problem for being thin-skinned and weak... and perhaps it is. But I'm someone who was raised in a liberal religion, went to Quaker schools, votes Democrat across the board, doesn't own guns, supports immigration, etc. On paper I am a crunchy liberal. But these people and their toxic combination of affluence and disdain and carelessness, nearly broke my family apart.

There's a very rigid expectation about behavior, perhaps especially among Takoma Park women, that many of us mortals can't meet. Everything is passive aggressive. Tone is important. You should also probably apologize for any white privilege, (or bring up any bipoc ancestors), at least ten times in every conversation. It's performative, stultifying, and not at all fun.

Could you give an example of behavior "expectations" among Takoma Park women? I'm one, and I've never felt any pressure to be anything besides myself. I'm also pretty much the opposite of passive aggressive and I never worry about tone.

What conversations have you had where you needed to apologize for white privilege 10 times in every conversation? I've never apologized to anybody in Takoma Park for being White.

None of this makes sense. I doubt you ever lived in Takoma Park. You're probably a resident MAGA who's bored and slagging off the libs.

And let's just talk about how you capitalize the word "white."

You know who does that? Takoma park liberals and white supremacists. Funny, how liberal overcorrection leads to the same dismal place reached by fundies in Idaho. And by funny, I mean I'm lying: it's not funny.

DP - it triggers you to see White capitalized? Really?? Wow. Dude, it's just a convention. Calm down.

It's not a convention--or it wasn't until very recently. Black is capitalized when referring to a the Black identity. In America, the term has a specific meaning we can all get around: the identification of a group of people of African descent with shared history and culture. That definition includes both the tragedies and the triumphs of a collective past.

Capitalizing the word "white" has the effect of implying that "white" people should have a similar Identity. In Takoma Park, a place full of white people who have very little exposure to how this can go sideways, it probably seems fine. "Equitable," even. But it's not. What you're doing is legitimizing the kind of fake history that imagines there really is such a thing as a white race, and that this thing is a collective Identity.

The Post (is it woke?) capitalizes "White":

https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2020/07/29/washington-post-announces-writing-style-changes-racial-ethnic-identifiers/

"Stories involving race show that White also represents a distinct cultural identity in the United States. In American history, many White Europeans who entered the country during times of mass migration were the targets of racial and ethnic discrimination. These diverse ethnicities were eventually assimilated into the collective group that has had its own cultural and historical impact on the nation. As such, White should be represented with a capital W. "

[Anonymous]

I fear for safety at night in TP.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We're looking for a close-in, affordable neighborhood with friendly neighbors etc, and TKPK seems like it would fit the bill ... We're not super political (I trend left, DW right) ... but DW's perception is that the lefty politics are an identity thing there, and that folks get hostile/snobby if you don't share their views. What are your experiences?

How right? Trump signs on the lawn? Pro Life bumper stickers?

No not MAGA-right ... attend evangelical church, prefer lower taxes, but generally just go about our business.

I think she is correct. Takoma (downtown/historic part at least) is very leftist. I hear of one proud independent in my neighborhood but he is a free speech type of independent who will defend right wing causes for the fun of debating (which is another Takoma tradition). Takoma is not Bethesda or silver spring, it is not politically neutral. She wont feel very happy here because people assume everyone else is at least democrat so will be in your face, not expecting to offend you: "wow it is crazy, did you hear what Republicans did ? start rant..."