"No experience with any of that."
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Lew is one of those people who avoid having to care by always saying, "I'm not political." When politics means caring about only certain types of people, you'd better fucking get political real soon. I'd rather not say I'm political either! I'd love to say, "No experience with any of that," when somebody talks about cops killing Black Americans! I just want to play The Temple of Elemental Evil computer role-playing game for the eighth time and not worry about systemic racism and authoritarian movements to entrench the ideas of old white wealthy men! I have enough to worry about! But guess what? I do care about that shit! I care about making the world a better place. And guess what that means? It means change. So if you care about changing the world for the better, you are against conservative and traditional values that want to keep the world the same, with all its advantages for some and disadvantages for others. So fuck saying, "No experience with any of that." That's libertarian speak for "The individual is responsible for themselves and I'm just going to ignore how, in my ideal world, that would mean we're all fighting for survival against anything corporations choose to do for profit, or how systemic racism rooted in the founding of this country still has its tendrils in equality today. If I'm okay and successful and I never got shot by cops, everybody can do it too!"
Now I'm all worked up just because Lew was all, "I keep my head down!"
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