One of the biggest issues with race and class relations is declaring your subjective feelings as facts.
lets face it, white moderates with privilege, even if they think they are poor victims, are still centered and centering themselves in all aspects of reality.
Thinking that not being centered = disposability is exactly the mirrored reflection of the power of white supremacy that benefits you as you focus on your “trauma healing”.
There is no safety from white supremacy even if you are white, cis, male, etc.
You ARE disposable. You will likely be thrown under the bus at some point in the unsustainable rat race of white capitalism.
You are just fighting against feeling what everyone else has been feeling for centuries. Feeling scared, in pain, in danger… is just normal in this situation.
Trying to monetize your pain and victimhood is also white supremacy and domination culture.
Recognizing we are up shits creek without a paddle and not turning to victimhood or status seeking capitalism and weaponized emotionality is integrity.
Facing honest criticism of your salvational hopes and dreams is also what might give you what you keep saying you want.
Directly Critiquing your so-called heroes and “elders” (who allllll own property on stolen land) might get you the trust you fetishize so deeply.
At this point you may have tuned out because i used the white word, because you thibk that racial division is some kind of tactic by BLM or some crazy ass “woke” agenda.
But until you recognize that the white person who steals indigenous and black ideas gets more leeway, money and power than the black and indigenous and other people of color they stole from, you wont ever be aeen as someone worthy of not being disposable by the very people who have been and continue to be disposable in the venomous gaze of the anti-culture.
Im continually amazed by what passes for critical thinking in white centered spaces and in pro-capitalist spaces. Especially in so called “trauma healing”, somatics or therapy spaces.
Anyone who gets a lot of money and power, book deals, speaking gigs, and can fly around the world nonstop should be criticized and critiqued. And they should be able to handle that critique without deflection or fawning flunkies rushing to their defense.
Why is fucking eckhart tolle, brene brown, van der kolk, levine, stephen jenkinson and the legions of white girlboss pussy power goddess coaches rolling in more money than ive ever seen my entire fucking 43 years of life?
Do you not see how insanely lopsided these bubbles are?
These are hard realities and im not sure many people can stand in the fire of this kind of reckoning. Im not sure many people can say no to the golden handcuffs and the myth of meritocracy.
This goes for all the POC too who think that getting the bag is going to ultimately do something super positive.
So, i know you all want answers but i dont think it’s that simple at all. Every choice is a kind of brainwashing event. Every confirmation bias, every perceptual interpretation.
Its not easy.
The design of the patriarchal culture is to pick some scapegoats and double down, forever.
Eventually you will be the scapegoat. You have to play this game out to its logical conclusions, you have to go all the way to the end.
And sure you can embrace the hunger games squid game thing. I dont have to respect you for it. I dont have to respect the weird gurus and cliques that sort of circle the drain continuously.
Its a very strange mess we are in and very few actual allies. These kinds of conversations require skills far beyond what is normalized.
Power and money are narcotics.
Was this a rant by an “angry mixed race queer person who presents as a white cis man” or was this direct honesty by a disabled human animist who struggles for medical costs and resources?
Is this a trick question?
The white body, the white mind, the white worldview, the white posture, the white emotions, the white perception … a ton of disturbed problems.
Toodles for now
“Recognizing we are up shits creek without a paddle and not turning to victimhood or status seeking capitalism and weaponized emotionality is integrity.” 👍👍👍
biggest woking of all. as a pretty white looking disabled elder big woman with new but largely still hidden indigenous history (meaning even hard for even me to be sure like don’t wanna be a wanker jumping on the indigenous bus yet still...) that feels more real than any white capitalist system these days . relatively. suddenly - the pull to be me centric and fall back into the white soft bed of illusion ive known for oh so long...ahhh.
when you can no longer turn back
INTEGRITY.
Thankyou for that definition.
question though- does it ever get to feel as good as the illusion used to?
I think the minute i wrote it i got the answer.👍