Of course, no one would actually think it is like that even when you are in, but hindsight is 20/20 there.
I also remember that there was a lot of discussion of privilege at the time (this was pre-2010, so these were the days of the social justice warriors and the beginnings of the purity movement) and that it was very hard for them that I didn't get it - because all of them were American/Anglo-Saxon background and while I'm white, I'm continental European and our privileges do effectively look a bit different (it does not confer me any advantage to be Christian for example, let alone Protestant (ETA: which I'm not, I'm a lapsed Catholic), and it only confers an advantage to be white if you're the right kind of white, so if anyone was citing WASP culture to me I was like...no. which didn't parse for them - because of their American privilege I guess? idk). So all in all, it was definitely the wrong environment for me personally, but I really also think that the seasonal YT chat at the time was not the greatest place to be, in hindsights.
Whether this has changed I don't know, and of course this is only my decade old reflection on it with a lot more life experience now.
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Of course, no one would actually think it is like that even when you are in, but hindsight is 20/20 there.
I also remember that there was a lot of discussion of privilege at the time (this was pre-2010, so these were the days of the social justice warriors and the beginnings of the purity movement) and that it was very hard for them that I didn't get it - because all of them were American/Anglo-Saxon background and while I'm white, I'm continental European and our privileges do effectively look a bit different (it does not confer me any advantage to be Christian for example, let alone Protestant (ETA: which I'm not, I'm a lapsed Catholic), and it only confers an advantage to be white if you're the right kind of white, so if anyone was citing WASP culture to me I was like...no. which didn't parse for them - because of their American privilege I guess? idk). So all in all, it was definitely the wrong environment for me personally, but I really also think that the seasonal YT chat at the time was not the greatest place to be, in hindsights.
Whether this has changed I don't know, and of course this is only my decade old reflection on it with a lot more life experience now.