what a dimwit

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Everybody thinks they’d stand up to “real” oppression, but more often than not, there’s someone they’d tear down in an instant if someone offered them a single hot Cheeto and the chance to feel like part of an in-crowd.

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And no, I don’t mean “reverse racism” or “hating abled people” or “heterophobia”. I mean accepting the belittling of fat people. Secretly suspecting every disabled person of being workshy. Deciding you know better than an elderly person. I mean policing bathrooms and feeling entitled to bodies.

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Two are full blown antivaxxers now. Another has started “just asking questions” about anyone they don’t understand. And one is still trying to have it both ways, telling me they think I have a “real” reason to mask, unlike “those people.”

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Take it from someone who lost a whole bunch of supposedly progressive friends when I couldn’t rip the respirator off my face and join them in not caring whose lives get mangled as a result. It leads ugly places.

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