“Interpersonal Systemic Shame makes it easy to see people’s laziness, sloppiness, or apathy as the source of the problem rather than a consequence of repeated structural failures. Interpersonal Systemic Shame often involves blaming and shaming people who share identities or experiences with us, because they reflect the qualities we’ve been conditioned to hate in ourselves.”
- Unlearning Shame, Devon Price, PhD
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Really wish I could turn off the part of me that get’s really sad when people say things I think are bad. That would be cool.
I think the things you think are good, actually
Nonono that’s not what I mean. Uh, let me word that a bit better.
the part of me that get’s really sad when people say something that I consider morally kind of shitty. Like the kind of people who say stuff like “Homeless people are lazy.” Like I’ll hear someone say something cruel about someone I don’t even know and I’ll feel it hard. Like too hard. I’ll go into like a deep depression.
But also thank you very much for the kind words.