#it rarely seems to occur to them that your political organising and survival skills might be going into surviving your OWN government

[trans-cuchulainn]

i sorta hate that social justice framing that's like "if you've ever wondered what you would have done during [insert past atrocity] then now is when you find out" kind of thing. i get why people do it but it feels like the entire vibe is appealing to people's desire to be a hero and a special saviour type when the realistic answer in most cases even for people who really really care is "donate to charity and watch in horror as those who actually have the power fail to use it". like. i would've been powerless in the past just as much as i'm powerless now and no amount of Wanting To Be A Hero is going to change that and also it's not really about being a hero is it?

plus the set up of that kind of guilt-tripping automatically positions the person reading it as the privileged entity who would not have been affected by whatever past atrocity they're talking about and therefore it's very much a tactic aimed at white abled cishet people so when the honest answer is "buddy, if i were living through [atrocity] as a queertrans disabled person what i would be doing is dying" it's like. idk what power fantasy you're expecting me to have here

#not to mention that when people have a go at you for not doing enough about their chosen cause #it rarely seems to occur to them that your political organising and survival skills might be going into surviving your OWN government #néide did a discourse again #sorry i don't know how to say this shit in irish