Everyone who is scared of cities and multiculturalism is a loser.
Benjamin Franklinstein
Dress rehearsal for the big one.
laura olin
New Yorkers singing Empire State of Mind
Happy birthday your ass
I pray God it's your last
Molly Knight
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None of my friends were serious about their faith, and neither was I or my family. It was a tradition, born out of diasporic solidarity, the Greeks all sticking together and using the church as a community center, same with everyone else. There were a few Jewish families, maybe one Mormon one, but 🧵
A little fun fact about me and why I'm the way I am: growing up, my family was Greek Orthodox except for an aunt who went Catholic when she got married, and almost everyone I knew was Catholic. It was a New England industrial city, so it was full of Italians, Irish, Poles, and French Canadians. 🧵
like media creations, like figures from TV shows or boogymen from cable news. I never thought anyone actually believed that stuff for real. I lived in that bubble for almost 30 years.
Anyway, I still can't take that stuff seriously.
In college I met Muslim and Hindu and Buddhist people, I did my year abroad in Egypt, I studied Islamic art and architecture. It wasn't until I moved from the northeast to Southern California that I met anybody who was part of an American evangelical church. Those people had always seemed 🧵
I didn't know them very well, and if there were Protestants, they were the quiet kind, Episcopalians and Congregationalists and the other old NE churches. There was one evangelical church in town, which my grandmother was convinced was just a scam to let the leader claim tax-exempt status. 🧵
As someone born in Boston and living in SoCal, I'm thrilled for our coastal elite comrades in NYC.
I know I haven't been influenced because I dress the same way, listen to the same music, and enjoy the same genres of books and movies that I have since I was 17.
