Not on me, truthfully I couldn’t care less about myself. But does my self hate oppress others?
For very personal, traumatic, mentally ill reasons, I… hate myself, basically. While I like to think I was never a terrible bigot, a few years ago I started to actively teach myself about privilege/oppression.
However, alot of that got tangled up in my obsessive self loathing and intrusive thoughts. I hate myself for having privilege, especially white privilege, and I hate myself for being American and potentially being related to/a descendant of colonials. It also ties into my internalized ableism, as I hate myself for being unable to be an activist.
I’m not here to ask if I have to hate myself to be a true social justicer, or for permission to not hate myself. I’ve pestered enough people about that stuff back then when I was dumber and mid meltdown.
But I’ve seen people get angry at white people who self flagellate, calling them obnoxious, embarrassing, cringe.
