the older I get…
…the more I realize that unless you know the person you’re judging, you just can’t. You can’t say anything about them as a person, them as part of a culture, them as anything. (Says the girl who judges celebrities and such constantly. I must stop this.)
Seriously though…I’m referring to this Privilege blog uproar people are talking about. There was one post this lady made…Enjoli referenced it…about this woman and her High WASP family going on a vacation and dealing with “Others,” a.k.a. people not of “her” kind. I knew two lines in that this was a post about loud Jews on vacation. As a generally observant person, I understand an outsider’s perspective on how we can sometimes behave and carry ourselves. But as a Jew myself, and thus an insider, I know there’s so much more than a big diamond ring and a NY accent at a pool at the Four Seasons Maui. Just like I know there’s more to this chick than her blog about “deconstructing class” while discussing pretty things of privilege.
Bottom line is…WHO CARES? Who. Cares. All you can be is who you are and if that’s a good person, then you try to instill that in others, if you can. And if you’re a shitty person, then you leave a whole bunch of disappointed people in your wake and probably don’t care about that either. All you can be is who you are. And try to relate to each other on some level. And if you can’t, you can’t and you find new ground on which to stand. And that’s exciting too.
I don’t know, I’m rambling. It’s just….this world is so dumb, you guys. People are so high and mighty. Myself included sometimes. And the more I’m faced with that, the more I realize how dumb and futile judging people is.
I don’t know…whatever.
