There's an old saying in northern Europe that “it's like choosing between plague and cholera”, still often used when faced with only bad choices.
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There's an old saying in northern Europe that “it's like choosing between plague and cholera”, still often used when faced with only bad choices. And as any know-it-all worth her salt should be quick to point out, if you have access to modern healthcare, you pick cholera.
But if you don't? Over the years I thought about that a lot, and it always seemed obvious that while the more disprivileged can make things better for the more privileged, they're essentially blameless if they don't.
From my imagined position of a white, cishet, neurotypical man, I felt like I would be wrong to blame them for not picking the cholera outbreak, the better one for me that's just as bad for them.
I don't know to which degree this was based on selfishness. I was always quietly carrying this sad and desperate anger over being forced to live in denial of my neurodivergence and queerness.
So it's a good question: What can you really demand from those who have already had cholera forced upon them?
