Yeah, he’s kinda right in that he just wouldn’t be the same person at all. The soul stuff is bullshit but
It contradicts his entire point though. Like the whole idea is that each haitian is just individually bad. If you wanna go for that line, you gotta claim that if you were one of them, you'd be fucking balling. Or you're a failson, lifted only by those around you, but I don't think that's going to happen
Yeah you'd think realizing "I only am who I am as a result of the material circumstances of my birth, which I did not choose for myself" would engender some humility and empathy, and yet.
I don't really, not anymore. It's a hierarchy that's supposed to be defended to these people, doesn't really matter how they got there. It's not even hypocritical, on their terms, to think this. I have my place here, which was bestowed upon me, and the lessers may not get there is entirely consistent, if fucking garbage.
It contradicts his entire point though. Like the whole idea is that each haitian is just individually bad. If you wanna go for that line, you gotta claim that if you were one of them, you'd be fucking balling. Or you're a failson, lifted only by those around you, but I don't think that's going to happen
Yeah you'd think realizing "I only am who I am as a result of the material circumstances of my birth, which I did not choose for myself" would engender some humility and empathy, and yet.
I don't really, not anymore. It's a hierarchy that's supposed to be defended to these people, doesn't really matter how they got there. It's not even hypocritical, on their terms, to think this. I have my place here, which was bestowed upon me, and the lessers may not get there is entirely consistent, if fucking garbage.