The idea of dismissing someone’s testimony about their internality/lived experience on the grounds that I’m somehow disposed to be able to tell whether they believe what they’re saying turns my stomach, so I don’t, I kind of can’t
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If the immigrant narrative is such a positive thing, like Amy Chua says, if having to "earn your place on the boat" makes you the best version of yourself, then why not avail them of that blessing Why shouldn't they live in fear and have to prove their usefulness for once
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This is why it's very hard for me to give two shits about white Americans' "despair" in the face of globalization "What if the Chinese take over the world and they decide we're useless and they don't need us and they leave us to rot" That's just chickens coming home to roost
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I mean I know this is the part where Infinite Possible Modifiers but I’m contractually obligated to note that (aside from “can trans people be straight” &c.) the “we can make ourselves useful” arguments are almost always founded in ableism so there’s still up to 25% of them SOL
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Read something in College 1.0 about how the unifying feature among first-generation civil rights movements outside the disability rights movement itself is appeals to “We may LOOK different from you but it’s not like we’re CRIPPLED or [r-slur] or something!!!” and went “…oh”
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