#injustice because our brains literally can’t sustain it. that’s the reason why people are desensitised to brown babies dying. not because | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

faithfromanewperspective · 1 month ago

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hot take but I maybe think the whole ‘no reaction when seeing bodies of dead poc babies’ isn’t actually that people aren’t having a reaction. it’s hopelessness and overwhelm we’ve learned to mask and it looks like we don’t care. but most people do. they just feel stuck as if they don’t know how they can help. outrage requires novelty otherwise it literally becomes a mood disorder

#voices for the oppressed posted something which had a point but pissed me off because actually maybe let’s not compare deaths to each #other. maybe they can just all be tragedies and results of injustice. the same connected injustice. truly don’t see the point otherwise #no one should be implicitly told they’re overreacting?? our brains have systems to keep us safe or we’d all die from the hopelessness and #overload of empathy. and the thing about systemic oppression is it makes us numb. it means we can’t have outrage against every single #injustice because our brains literally can’t sustain it. that’s the reason why people are desensitised to brown babies dying. not because #they don’t care. I think you’ll find most people do. I think you’ll find most people are good and there’s just so many bad things to care #about. in the end we can’t physically prioritise everything. We have to attack the SYSTEMS (which is actually what my night class is on)#don’t let sideblog ariel tell you she doesn’t know what it’s about. she just got distracted singing wicked habit in a clever capsule bed #systemic oppression #black lives matter #brown lives matter #palestinian lives matter #none of which means white famous mens lives DONT matter

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