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Today I am struggling with the ways that self-care can intersect with privilege and apathy in complicated, messy ways. (/1)
There are many people who legitimately need to step back and disengage for their own health, and that& #39;s valid and real.
Then you have folks like my white parents who have spent their lives NOT engaging in anti-racism because it& #39;s "so depressing" and there& #39;s "nothing we can do".
Then you have folks like my white parents who have spent their lives NOT engaging in anti-racism because it& #39;s "so depressing" and there& #39;s "nothing we can do".
There& #39;s people on here who genuinely need to log off and self-care, and then there& #39;s some particular white folks who haven& #39;t really done anything but still feel the need to performatively announce they& #39;re Taking A Break From All This. Because they have the privilege to look away.
There& #39;s a certain level of privilege often involved in looking away, because it can mean you& #39;re not affected so much as others. And it& #39;s hard to talk about that when we talk about self-care because at that point "privilege" is often the last thing on our mind. We& #39;re hurting.
I don& #39;t really know how to thread this needle except that I wish my fellow white people would try to tough this out a little longer, a little more, and at the very least to NOT make big announcements about how they& #39;re taking a time out for themselves right now.
There& #39;s a very effective SNL skit wherein the Handmaid& #39;s Tale has come to pass but cis white men have failed to notice because they don& #39;t care. And I think about it a lot. https://youtu.be/4ydHjbKaL5A ">https://youtu.be/4ydHjbKaL...
