Pointing fingers will only slow us down

No matter the circumstance, it’s futile to point at others and play the victim. Because, if you fragment your identity enough, then you will eventually be the one being pointed at.

Why point at others as being privileged? Especially, if their privilege is outside of their control, like ethnicity and where they were born?

These people are individuals, just like you, attempting to live within what they were given. To point at them as separate from you is a stepping stone towards divisiveness.

And, to tell them that they will never understand your struggle can only lead to anger and resentment.

Besides, and to reiterate, you are just one fragmented identity away from being pointed at yourself.

It’s likely that any of these people could be pointing a finger at you in the same way you are pointing elsewhere:

• Those who increasingly are autistic, 3 billion people making under $3 a day, 7.6 million who are blind, 9% of the population under 85 IQ, those who’ve lost their entire families in accidents, malnourishment in childhood, low income levels in childhood, those exposed to lead, 70 million people with a stutter, anyone drafted into any war in history, anyone from any century previous to the 20th that wasn’t an aristocrat, victims of the Gulags, victims of concentration camps, any indentured servant, red hair in Germany, being hunted for being a witch in 2019, any slave from now to the dawn of civilization, every person never born, what month you were born, quality of your teachers, and 99% of the world who makes less than you.

This list can go on indefinitely because our identities fragment indefinitely. If you are playing the victim now then you haven’t widened your perspective enough.

All we can do is work within what we are given and pointing will only slow us down.