And moreover, the people who are determined to be mean and racially insensitive and sexist and flaunt privilege at a time like this don't seem they would be very trustworthy or like they would be very kind people for most children to be around.
Cuz usually people who are kind for most children to be around are also nicer for most adults to be around, not just a select, small-minded, closed-hearted, insecure, mean little group that needs to exclude the ones who deserve much better right now.
And if I don't suck up to people, yes, it is partially out of my own self interest, but is also quite painful because maybe it'd be easier to just be a pushover and go along with them, but actually no, not for me, it's not easier for me. There's too much stuff that happened in my life for me to be like that.
And so if the supposedly more "privileged" ones have to be stubborn and mean to get through whatever they're getting through right now maybe they aren't that privileged after all. And they only have more in terms of materialistic things or perhaps they feel genetically superior. That's tragic to think that's the best you can do with your life.
But perhaps they'll find the people who speak to them in the ways that they want to hear and maybe that will help them. But I deserve better than to have to deal with the insensitive shallow people sucking the life out of me. And so do lots of others, including the children that are surviving trauma wrought upon them by the mean patriarchal white supremacy and the self-absorbed, uncaring adults who perpetuate it.
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