Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

A great answer to a stupid, and frequent, accusation.

Teaspoons 101: I Am Not the Thought Police

by Melissa McEwan

[...]I am not the thought police.

I am challenging you to think about things in a way in which you may have never thought about them before.

The entire rest of the world, with its privileging of men and heterosexuals and cisgender people and thin (but not too thin!) and tall (but not too tall!) and able and healthy white bodies and religious people and people who have sex and people who can and want to be parents and the wealthy and the educated, and all the ways in which the rest of the world facilitates and upholds that privilege, and all the ways in which the rest of the world marginalizes and demeans and treats as less than all the people who deviate from those privileged “norms,” and all the ways the rest of the world has indoctrinated you into that system of privilege, and socialized you to believe it’s the natural and right and immutable state of the world, and all the shills for the kyriarchy who fill the ether with self-reinforcing rubbish on a constant loop so you swim in a sea so thick with the detritus of Othering that you don’t even notice it on a conscious level anymore, and all the bullies who appear to kick you back in line if you do, if you have the temerity to question the message, and all the other bits and bobs of the brainwashing to which we are all subjected since the day we’re born as part of scheme, nearly incomprehensible in scope, to ensure that challengers to these traditions are never made, and, if they’re born, are squashed with the weight of mountainous tidal waves of blowback in the other direction…? The purveyors of that shit are the goddamn thought police.

And you know what one of the biggest lies they tell you is?

That it’s the other way around.

Also see Kai’s The Greatest Cliché: The Unexamined Propaganda of “Political Correctness” at Zuky

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