Adults know what they’re doing.

That people in general are good.

• The United States is a righteous, fair, and just country.
• Success and a comfortable life necessarily followed hard, diligent, smart work
• Adults, by virtue of having been around longer, necessarily knew more and knew better than I.
• Socialism bad.
• All kids get beaten on a daily basis for transgressions such as a B grade on their paper, a speck of food still stuck to the dishes after washing, or for listening to music on the radio that their parents didn’t like.

That when I grew up I’d know what I was doing and my body would work.

I thought racial/class bias was due to lack of education and lack of access to information.

Holy cow was I wrong.

The United states values freedom above all else and intervenes in foreign lands to make people more free.

Racism is an individualist and idealogical issue caused by ignorance rather than a systemic problem maintained and incentivized by the structure of production