https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/scaachikoul/qanon-believers-turning-away-from-trump
…Vanderbilt is also contending with things she’s never thought about before, namely her white privilege. “I didn’t pay attention to any of that, and I know that I’m never going to know what it’s like to live a life of a minority, ever. I can say all day long I’m not racist,” she said.
“But that’s not good enough. I want to educate myself and see what I can do and how can I have these conversations and be more open-minded.”
It was through her friends on TikTok that she learned how Trump’s lone term in office negatively affected people of color; one such follower was a Puerto Rican woman whose family was on the island during Hurricane Maria in 2017.
“Trump was so insensitive to them. He said cruel things about them, which I would never expect anyone to ever say that, but let alone a president,” she said.
(At the time, Trump claimed that the hurricane wasn’t a “real” catastrophe before complaining about how giving aid to a US territory was putting the budget “out of whack.”)
CULTURE & CRITICISM
What The Past Three Months Have Been Like For QAnon Believers
A millennial stay-at-home mom from South Carolina, a gay couple from Texas, and a social worker in New York believed in QAnon. Now that Biden is president, they’re not sure where to go from here.
Scaachi Koul
BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on March 26, 2021, at 10:20 a.m. ET