Do you agree?
When you’re a member of a marginalised group, it’s easy to just become dead to it, because it’s just part of your regular life. You can’t do anything about it, so it’s either die, or just get on with it as best you can. This is pragmatically necessary, but it’s easy to end up internalising a bunch of unhealthy stuff and begin feeling like the suffering you face is your fault. It’s a slow process, where you just sort of forget that you’re suffering an injustice, because it’s just normal.
My late best friend was like in the OP. He would often be shocked and outraged at some of the things I face as a disabled person, and it was always jarring in a way that reminded me of how bullshit it is that I have to face some stuff. He’d say things that would make me go “Yeah! That is fucked up”. Being angry at a thing doesn’t necessarily make things any better, nor does it make it easier to bear, but getting angry at myself (which inevitably happens if I slip into internalised ableism) definitely makes things harder.
Recognising my suffering as oppression is also a powerful step towards finding community and building solidarity, which is a useful step towards concrete political change
Nanook@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Or at least show a moratorium of disinterest.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I was in a shoegaze band called A Moriartum of Disinterest.
We had two good songs, but we always played those at the start of the gig and then announced 1970s cricket scores for an hour.
Nanook@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Share the tapes!!