Lucy Biggers

I'm not inoculated against these ideas coming out of the American education system.

And we have social media online for the first time.

So it's not like my parents can warn me of how these things work.

Throw in the Slack channel where everyone group messages.

So it's public messaging.

And you very quickly just get a culture that's very ideological in the newsroom.

And so I just bought into everything because...

I wanted to be a good ally.

And I'm looking around at the ideology as it's really picking up in the 2017 post-Trump elected.

And it's saying, like, if you're a white person, if you're an American, if you're straight, you have all these privileges.

And so...

To me, the climate movement was a perfect way to atone for the sins of my birth as being a privileged person.

I can represent the indigenous Native Americans who have been historically oppressed.

I can now help them.

So now I'm on the right side of history.

I'm atoning for being descended from this oppressive group of people.

And so it was all in my psychology a way to be a good person and fit in with the group, which...

I felt wasn't gonna accept me if I was just, like, a normal white person who was like, actually, this country is worth defending.

Actually, I'm not racist.

Like, I was never gonna say that stuff.