I’m dumbstruck as to what to do. The US is building literal concentration camps, and none of my co-workers care at all.
In fairness, I work in healthcare with an almost exclusively cishet white population who are financially well off.
Many of them espouse to be Christians, and no one cares at all that the American government is following the exact playbook from Nazi Germany.
What do you do? How do you make people care before it’s too late?
…there’s your problem.
Why would they care? At worst they’re unaffected. At best they’re benefitting. What is their impetus for change?
You’d like to think some sort of empathy, compassion and solidarity at the very least.
But I guess those are traits the US has very effectively diminished from generation to generation.
I don’t live in the us so I can’t comment on any change that has been or not been.
I do know that privilege itself obscures experience. Compassion and empathy are built on experience. Therefore expecting someone who is privileged to have compassion or empathy to those without the same privilige is unrealistic. They have to be shown, or brought to a point where they can align their experience with others.
Where’s the profit in empathy?