Is it too much to ask for peace?
For unity and understanding amongst people that are different from each other?
But all I see are ties breaking.
Why are you guys doing this instead?
To mess with my already dwindling mental health?
To put other people down deliberately?
To prop yourself up in comparison to them,
But only temporarily?
But at what costs, may I ask?
Conflict is necessary sometimes, I get it…
For the good of the group, for the health of the group.
We are all individuals with different needs and ideas.
We should learn from each other, not insult and invalidate each other.
If it takes a level-headed debate to come to a compromise, so be it.
Why do we have to undergo so much turmoil:
The emotional labor of justifying your own existence,
Attempting to combat negative stereotypes unfairly placed on your cultural group,
And feeling as if no one outside of your cultural group stands in solidarity with you.
What a feeling that many experience and many will never experience at all.