Recently I got to stand around idly nodding along to a couple of my relatives swap theories on how America's current ammunition shortage is due to Barack Obama buying and redistributing all the bullets so white people won't be able to defend themselves against black muggers.
I was pretending to work today, when a joking conversation about the differences between Yankee and Dixie accents segued into something that began with "The problem with the blacks is..." I stopped paying too much attention after that while my boss and another guy spent ten minutes agreeing with each other.
In both cases, eventually a Youtube video with a hundred million hits came up of a reporter trying to interview some out of touch ghetto stooge, just to prove every stereotype has at least one perfect example.
It's not that I'm tired of being the 'token liberal' trying to proselytize people into the modern era and coming off like a parody myself, I gave up on that a long time ago. It's not that I'm tired of having the common fucking decency to keep your mouth shut is a 'token liberal' position instead of just common fucking decency. It's that I'm simultaneously tired of not having the effort left to care, and not wanting the effort to care. I'm tired of the apparently never-ending feeling of giving up on caring.
The irresistible force of smug moral superiority has been defeated by the immovable object of self-assured tribalism. I simply do not have the power to give a shit and I'm tired of the world rubbing my apathy in my face.
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