This month, awareness for people being marginalised for their being LGBTQIA+ and their struggles is being raised, being highlighted.
And yes, it also celebrates the ones who stand tall and proud despite or, and because of, their struggles.
I am really surprised, confused, and disappointed about how, when someone brings up human rights being there for marginalised groups of people as much as they’re there for the ones who have all the rights, privilege, and power by default, people (usually the ones with all the rights, privilege, and power by default) start screaming “woke” and or “why did you have to make it political?”
There’s nothing political about it, and never was.
Human rights are supposed to be a default unary setting, but the ones who currently have the power, privilege, and rights seem to have hailed “”divide and conquer (ie. have the marginalised and oppressed fight each other over scraps)” as the most effective method to consolidate theirs.
Regardless of how you are considered to be member of a marginalised group, by gender, race, ability, sexuality, gender identity, skin colour, religion, socio-economic standing, neurotype, and any group I will have obviously forgotten (and yes, intersectionality is being considered a double whammy of bad)… you are made to believe you need to elbow your way towards the human rights scraps you’re being thrown, and that you had better take them before someone else (less deserving?) runs off with them….
(cue meme here. Human rights are not pie)
