This is excellent, Steph! I am really glad you brought up this point:
“Systemic abuse isn’t a white issue. It isn’t a North American issue. And it isn’t a trivial issue. It’s a hellish, human issue, inseparable from the very forces of oppression that this “no time for whiny victims” discourse purports to be challenging.”
The “no time for whiny victims” trope may be the #1 systemic way I’ve seen people dismissed in Catholic spaces. It works on so many different levels of spirituality cruelty, to silence people and maintain institutional power & control.
This is excellent, Steph! I am really glad you brought up this point:
“Systemic abuse isn’t a white issue. It isn’t a North American issue. And it isn’t a trivial issue. It’s a hellish, human issue, inseparable from the very forces of oppression that this “no time for whiny victims” discourse purports to be challenging.”
The “no time for whiny victims” trope may be the #1 systemic way I’ve seen people dismissed in Catholic spaces. It works on so many different levels of spirituality cruelty, to silence people and maintain institutional power & control.
Your work is so valuable!