Who are you?

Honestly when I meet cishet white able people who are still fucking up their own lives I’m like… how? Like I know people who have been given every opportunity and say they hate their lives because homework is stressful or they don’t have a gf/bf or they can’t afford some fancy coat or some nonsense am I’m like????????

How about, everyone’s problems are their own so how about don’t judge them?

“Even though I don’t know all cishet white able people at all on an intimate level, can I ask how your personal stuff I know nothing about messes up your life???”

Please consider re-reading my post I’m not saying it’s annoying when privileged people are upset because of things that effect everyone I’m talking about when people you know have so much going for them that the worst thing in their life is not being able to have constant leisure/have sex/get unnecessary material goods and they repeatedly complain about it to people who are trying to deal with things that they’ve never even experienced

Well its not like you’ve ever experienced some of the stuff that they go through, so maybe you should let them vent instead of complaining that they’re privileged. Just because someones privileged doesn’t mean they have constant leisure/have sex/get unnecessary material goods, they might have other problems you don’t know about holding them back, and maybe you don’t know about them because they dont feel comfortable expressing their problems around you because people like you will dismiss their problems because of perceived privilege.

Honestly this is the only sensible reply I've had that disagrees with me I totally get what you mean I'm just in a situation where I get this SO often that it's driving me a bit bananas. I totally get what you mean though and it's one of those things where I get that if you've never known worse it seems so bad but I just hate being the person it gets lumped on when I have my own nonsense to be dealing with.

Honestly when I meet cishet white able people who are still fucking up their own lives I’m like… how? Like I know people who have been given every opportunity and say they hate their lives because homework is stressful or they don’t have a gf/bf or they can’t afford some fancy coat or some nonsense am I’m like????????

I’m sorry your homework is stressful

That sounds horrible for you. Also- not relevant to my original post. Someone saying "I'm grieving and poor" is no way something I'd ignore or dismiss and it's awful and facing loss is one of the worst things in life. But literally nowhere did I say that? At all. The three examples I have were about inconsequential things that only seem important if everything in your life is otherwise peachy. Also... I literally am a homeless white person and even if I wasn't I wouldn't tell people they had it easy because they obviously don't. However if I walk up to a homeless person and say "wow I hate my life because I don't have money for that designer jacket" I'd be an asshole. Which is exactly what I was saying originally. And the only people who pull that shit which I've had to deal with over and over come from that demographic that doesn't face systematic oppression.

Honestly when I meet cishet white able people who are still fucking up their own lives I’m like… how? Like I know people who have been given every opportunity and say they hate their lives because homework is stressful or they don’t have a gf/bf or they can’t afford some fancy coat or some nonsense am I’m like????????

How about, everyone’s problems are their own so how about don’t judge them?

“Even though I don’t know all cishet white able people at all on an intimate level, can I ask how your personal stuff I know nothing about messes up your life???”

Please consider re-reading my post I’m not saying it’s annoying when privileged people are upset because of things that effect everyone I’m talking about when people you know have so much going for them that the worst thing in their life is not being able to have constant leisure/have sex/get unnecessary material goods and they repeatedly complain about it to people who are trying to deal with things that they’ve never even experienced

Yeah except people, regardless of whatever qualities, can complain if they want, about anything, to anyone

Oh and let’s not forget that mental illness (or almost any illness for that matter) doesn’t discriminate.

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Honestly when I meet cishet white able people who are still fucking up their own lives I’m like… how? Like I know people who have been given every opportunity and say they hate their lives because homework is stressful or they don’t have a gf/bf or they can’t afford some fancy coat or some nonsense am I’m like????????

How about, everyone’s problems are their own so how about don’t judge them?

“Even though I don’t know all cishet white able people at all on an intimate level, can I ask how your personal stuff I know nothing about messes up your life???”

Please consider re-reading my post I’m not saying it’s annoying when privileged people are upset because of things that effect everyone I’m talking about when people you know have so much going for them that the worst thing in their life is not being able to have constant leisure/have sex/get unnecessary material goods and they repeatedly complain about it to people who are trying to deal with things that they’ve never even experienced

Yeah except people, regardless of whatever qualities, can complain if they want, about anything, to anyone

It's really great that you care about the struggles of homeless people! It's a very serious issue. As a homeless man myself I've been talking to a lot of other white homeless men recently and I've not met a single one who wasn't gay, trans or disabled, it's a shame that our most vulnerable members of society are so often forced out onto the streets. It's also incredible how this has literally nothing to do with my original post! It's almost like people are using the struggles of the homeless to feel better about themselves when told that it's shit to pile emotional labour onto people who are dealing with issues concerning their own safety and well-being.

Honestly when I meet cishet white able people who are still fucking up their own lives I’m like… how? Like I know people who have been given every opportunity and say they hate their lives because homework is stressful or they don’t have a gf/bf or they can’t afford some fancy coat or some nonsense am I’m like????????

How about, everyone’s problems are their own so how about don’t judge them?

“Even though I don’t know all cishet white able people at all on an intimate level, can I ask how your personal stuff I know nothing about messes up your life???”

Please consider re-reading my post I’m not saying it’s annoying when privileged people are upset because of things that effect everyone I’m talking about when people you know have so much going for them that the worst thing in their life is not being able to have constant leisure/have sex/get unnecessary material goods and they repeatedly complain about it to people who are trying to deal with things that they’ve never even experienced

Yeah except people, regardless of whatever qualities, can complain if they want, about anything, to anyone

What about white homeless men??? Me, a literal white homeless man: CHILL

Oh my gosh THANK YOU. Like honestly. At no point did I say that you can't have real problems because you're born into a well treated demographic I'm just so exhausted by people who obviously don't know what it's like constantly having the lower hand complaining that they can't afford Gucci or cute boy won't smooch them.

This is the best joke on this godforsaken website.

We also fought in WWI despite not being US citizens.

In Arizona, natives weren’t granted the right to vote until 1948. Think how that type of neglect ties into resource colonization as infrastructure was developed within years prior. 

In addition: the indigenous peoples of Canada were not recognized as Human Beings until the year 1960. Now let that shit sink in.

In the US it wasn’t until 1968 that the Indian Civil Rights Act was passed and allowed for the right to freedom of speech / assembly / press, a jury trial, the right to an attorney etc. It’s so fucking frustrating.

and it wasn’t until 1978 that we were legally allowed to practice our own religions. in a nation founded on religious freedoms, it was illegal to practice our own religions. in our own country. how fucked up is that?

Aaaand Native Americans weren’t entitled to their own languages (had no legal rights to teach them in their schools, use them in business) until the Native American Language Act of 1990.

I teach this to my students, because NONE of it is in a single textbook. This is and act of indoctrination

Boosting because I didn’t know any of this.

These facts should be known by all.

Yay!

Happy birthday, space flower!