I’ve written a couple of replies, deleted them, wrote some more, and deleted those and then debated replying at all but finally came up with what I think I want to say that doesn’t come across as being an absolute raging asshole.
TBH, that kind of response is a good portion of why I’m tired of trying to engage. I’m perfectly willing to use my privilege in any way that’s going to actually make a meaningful difference, but frankly nobody can provide a useful thing. It’s just neoliberal snark that I’m just plain not doing enough and really should be doing better, without any useful guidance into what I should be doing than the typical usual crap that comes out of neolibs.
It’s always just ‘go vote!’ (which I’ve done, and will continue to do), or ‘call your senator!’ (which I have and is utterly worthless), or maybe ‘don’t buy things on this day because that’ll show them!’ (it won’t), or even the always popular ‘go protest!’. Which again, I have, but showing up with 25 other people is not going to be something anyone in power cares about, at all.
If anyone has an actually useful impactful thing to do, I’m all ears, but frankly, I’ve yet to hear anything that strikes me as likely to actually either effect change, preserve something, or otherwise improve anyone’s life more than me getting focused on myself, friends, and family.
No no, what you’ve said is fair. We all have different levels of privilege and this is a discussion always worth exploring.
Mostly I’m just low-key simmering terrified.
I think the big thing to do is that if you don’t live in a subservient state government, make sure they’re rebelling against the feds and protecting human rights.
I think that’s all we can do for now, except to take things one day, one hour at a time.
Whatever else you may or may not do in the future, I for one hope that you give yourself permission to take care of YOU for a little bit here.:-) (put that another way: how could you be any good to anyone else if you did not?)
Perhaps slap a timer on it: a week, a month, whatever you need to grieve for what we’ve all lost. Then you’ll be more able to adapt to whatever is about to come.
I’ve written a couple of replies, deleted them, wrote some more, and deleted those and then debated replying at all but finally came up with what I think I want to say that doesn’t come across as being an absolute raging asshole.
TBH, that kind of response is a good portion of why I’m tired of trying to engage. I’m perfectly willing to use my privilege in any way that’s going to actually make a meaningful difference, but frankly nobody can provide a useful thing. It’s just neoliberal snark that I’m just plain not doing enough and really should be doing better, without any useful guidance into what I should be doing than the typical usual crap that comes out of neolibs.
It’s always just ‘go vote!’ (which I’ve done, and will continue to do), or ‘call your senator!’ (which I have and is utterly worthless), or maybe ‘don’t buy things on this day because that’ll show them!’ (it won’t), or even the always popular ‘go protest!’. Which again, I have, but showing up with 25 other people is not going to be something anyone in power cares about, at all.
If anyone has an actually useful impactful thing to do, I’m all ears, but frankly, I’ve yet to hear anything that strikes me as likely to actually either effect change, preserve something, or otherwise improve anyone’s life more than me getting focused on myself, friends, and family.
No no, what you’ve said is fair. We all have different levels of privilege and this is a discussion always worth exploring.
Mostly I’m just low-key simmering terrified.
I think the big thing to do is that if you don’t live in a subservient state government, make sure they’re rebelling against the feds and protecting human rights.
I think that’s all we can do for now, except to take things one day, one hour at a time.
Whatever else you may or may not do in the future, I for one hope that you give yourself permission to take care of YOU for a little bit here.:-) (put that another way: how could you be any good to anyone else if you did not?)
Perhaps slap a timer on it: a week, a month, whatever you need to grieve for what we’ve all lost. Then you’ll be more able to adapt to whatever is about to come.