Disgust as morality being bandied about by people who think they’re on the side of social justice enrages me as queer person in an interracial relationship. My existence, the person I love, our love disgusts some people. It’s not morality that drives them, it’s hate. Fuck anyone who believes THEIR personal feelings of disgust are a measurement of morality. Go suck Ayn Rand’s left one.

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Using moral disgust as the basis for your values is SO dangerous for exactly this reason. It’s socially controlled, too – so what your peers find disgusting, you are likely to begin to find disgusting. And that seems fine, but a loooooot of people outside the social norm – NDV people, poor people, POC, people outside the gender binary – can trigger a socially ingrained disgust reaction in people who haven’t been exposed to it before. It’s involuntary and so not anyone’s fault, but the ability to recognize that your feelings of disgust aren’t an objective truth is so so important towards understanding that social justice isn’t just about the people that you already like.

This is part of why queers have embraced words like freak, filthy and perverted: we know that we can not liberate all of us by arguing that we are normal, clean and wholesome. There will always be a group of us that can’t put up that image and that will disgust people by existing. The only way we can all exist is by breaking down the idea that when we disgust you that justifies violence against us.