In terms of your bias due to profiling stuff, do you think it's kind of a reactionary response after so much of that? Being like "fuck you, you are using this as an excuse to be a piece of shit, so I don't care anymore"? I know someone else whose biracial and he was profiles like that and he suuuper doesn't find it funny. Obviously everyone has different ways that they process that shit but just curious for curiosity's sake. Also to be clear when I say reactionary I don't mean that in a disparaging way, it would be super understandable

it is absolutely a reactionary response lol - I wouldn't ever go to like a 9/11 memorial or something and be like "haha deserved" but 99% of my politics (maybe everyone's to an extent) are because of how I grew up. My parents were/are the type of liberal that encouraged me as a child to ask about news/politics/etc and gave me my own computer with internet access at like 10, so as a consequence I was the outspoken atheist kid in middle school who was like "maybe the war on terror is kinda dumb??" in class to which my classmates would go "oh my god you are a terrorist" and I'd just laugh & agree with them.

Literally still have a friend who I used to argue politics with all the time from like 7th grade throughout high school, who I'm sure the next time I happen to see him when I'm back home for the holidays will be like "what've you been up to you fuckin terrorist??" because of how it was always leveraged as an insult against me and, as a consequence of association, him too lol.

One could probably argue that that type of stuff growing up (along with the other casual racism, etc) is what led me to immediately seek out left-leaning people in college, and because of that, discovered marx/etc so