The right’s bigotry of *normal* 1/7
To protect White kids from feeling mild discomfort, we can’t teach history of racism, how genocide/enslavement of Black & Brown bodies are foundation of US’ vast wealth & privilege.
Black/Brown pain is disregarded to preserve White normalcy.
To protect White kids from feeling mild discomfort, we can’t teach history of racism, how genocide/enslavement of Black & Brown bodies are foundation of US’ vast wealth & privilege.
Black/Brown pain is disregarded to preserve White normalcy.
To protect children from knowing about LGBTQ people, the right wants only to teach about *normal* families to prop up only hetero-normativity.
They’re fine w/bullying, double rates of depression, 4 times suicide rates of LGBTQ kids to protect normalcy of non-LGBTQ kids. 2/7
They’re fine w/bullying, double rates of depression, 4 times suicide rates of LGBTQ kids to protect normalcy of non-LGBTQ kids. 2/7
To avoid even mild discomfort, they scream, “back to NORMAL!”
*Normal* for disabled folk is getting back to not caring if disabled people suffer or die.
*Normal* for nondisabled ppl is willingness to sacrifice disabled bodies to avoid any discomfort for abled bodies 3/7
*Normal* for disabled folk is getting back to not caring if disabled people suffer or die.
*Normal* for nondisabled ppl is willingness to sacrifice disabled bodies to avoid any discomfort for abled bodies 3/7
They’re weaponizing *normal* to marginalize those about whose pain, deaths, past or present, mean nothing.
The discomfort of our pain, suffering, deaths, means so little, that discussing it must be shut down entirely. They say it’s to protect *normal* kids from pain. 4/7
The discomfort of our pain, suffering, deaths, means so little, that discussing it must be shut down entirely. They say it’s to protect *normal* kids from pain. 4/7
*Normal* protects the status quo & their systems of ruthless disregard for pain, suffering, deaths of others.
To the right,
Black & Brown pain, death & discomfort don’t matter.
LGBTQ pain, death & discomfort don’t matter.
Disabled pain, death & discomfort don’t matter. 5/7
To the right,
Black & Brown pain, death & discomfort don’t matter.
LGBTQ pain, death & discomfort don’t matter.
Disabled pain, death & discomfort don’t matter. 5/7
Their urgency of *normal* is propping up systems of oppression. Avoiding discomfort for *normal* people, matters more than discomfort, pain, deaths of not-normals.
They’d prefer we die rather than their feeling mild discomfort. *Normal* upholds the status quo of bigotry. 6/7
They’d prefer we die rather than their feeling mild discomfort. *Normal* upholds the status quo of bigotry. 6/7
“Let’s get back to normal,” is taking THEIR country back. It’s the AGAIN in MAGA. *Normal* was status quo before civil rights laws. Its at the cost of ABnormals. Whatever cost that is, our bodies are seen as expendable to make it *normal* again. *Normal* is discrimination 7/7
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