It is difficult for me to support people who have different struggles than I. Their struggles are as valid (or more valid) than my own, yet I can not easily champion their causes.
It’s a lot of fear, perhaps, and uncertainty; because I do not want to be categorized as something I am not. I do not want to be chastised by the suffering, claiming that “I can not possibly understand what they have to go through”... ...and I do not want to misrepresent their struggles.
So, I try to walk through life, without causing the harms attributed to my various classes. I am probably quite guilty of “projecting invisibility” - not even acknowledging another’s various classes, because - BECAUSE they should not have to influence how we interact with each other.
People will be quick to brand me as “operating from a position of privilege”, because I do not have to be hyper-aware of how my classes may be scorned and attacked by others.
It still tears such a hole in my soul that all of our variations have led to such heinous divisions.
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