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So... Queer folks have created queerphobia? And Black and brown people, racism? And disabled people, ableism? And abuse victims, their own abuse? And so on..?
Fuck this gaslighting victim blaming noise.
You can ignore the sign jesus christ
That's really missing the point.
All those things you've described are taking away from People's options, their choices. They're disempowering.
The point of the quote is to remind people that they have more power in their lives than they think. You have choices you don't yet realise.
Its not a cure all, it is worth knowing.
We all forge chains on ourselves because we had to at some point, often just to survive. Knowing that, we can learn to break those chains when we don't need them anymore.
It's a quote from Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Scrooge is told this by the ghost of an old business partner, warning him that his miserly greed has consequences. It's a good book, but if you're not up for reading it, you can get the gist from "The Muppets Christmas Carol". 🎅
So my point stands - this isn't about "self fulfilment and happiness", nor is it in any way a motivational quote.
I think it's meant in a more metaphorical sense.
Mental chains holding yourself back from reaching your potential or personal forfillment and happiness.
Because those (E: not to mention poverty, which is bad enough on its own, but massively exacerbated by the above) sure as fucking hell stand in the way of and deeply impact personal fucking fulfilment and happiness.
This shit is nothing more than the liberal way of telling people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
... That's certainly an interpretation.
Have you seen Fight Club? Think along the line of 'things we own end up owning us'.