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Marcella identifies as an able-bodied person and because she has a sibling with a disability she believes she must also identify as a person of privilege because she can walk around on her own two feet while her disabled sibling cannot. I believe that Marcella is suffering from sort of socially-induced guilt complex—as if she has to feel guilty for being able-bodied, which I think is nonsense. I am tired of people accusing themselves of privilege as though they should feel guilty about being who they are. This is absolutely ridiculous and I wish it would stop. Marcella does not have to feel ashamed of being able-bodied just because others are disabled. There is no guilt in being able-bodied. I would never consider myself as a person of privilege because I am able-bodied. Maybe it’s because I’m African-American, but I think this privilege “talk” is way too politically correct and fake. It is people trying to atone for some perception of some sin they have committed for not being oppressed by this or that.
I believe no one should walk around accusing themselves of being privileged. Accusing oneself of privilege or accusing others of it is a way to mentally oppress them. One cannot control whether one is born able-bodied or disabled—so why should one be accused of privilege as though the able-bodied person were somehow at fault for being able-bodied. This is bad for society, and a just a bad culture in general that is creating this type of scorn and self-loathing.
I will have to work with disabled persons, but I am not going to have a perspective like Marcella and think about privilege. I plan to treat everyone with respect because that is what all people deserve. I don’t need to judge anyone—it is not my place to do so. By not judging others, I think I will create positive therapeutic alliance with everyone when working with a client who is similar to Marcella or anyone else for that matter.
intersectionality, power, and privilege, it is impossible not to wonder if it is human nature to seek, gain, and preserve power at the expense of others and lose all concept of the consequences. As an optimist, I believe that we can all change. In The Sneeches and Other Stories, Dr. Seuss also offers some hope for humanity, showing that it is possible to recognize the essential equality of all
I guess at this point he is losing me a bit. The core concept is still that privilege is about controlling access to resources and using physical traits (the first rung of the diversity wheel) as the most powerful means of doing that. I just find that it is hard to see the point he is trying to make in this chapter because he is pretending that there is
We are dealing from a state of constant change and he writes like we're standing still. He's got us doing algebra when we should be doing calculus. The second point I find interesting in this chapter is the advice he offers (from another writer). Some of that advice is good, but some is bizarre. For example we can take to heart "don't make assumptions" or "please don't ask me to
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