“No one threatened to kill Dylan Mulvaney. We threatened to (and made good on) no longer drinking Bud Light,” Owens tweeted on Thursday. “I’m so sick of the ‘trans community’ pretending they are Black people surviving the klan in the 1920′s — while [they] shake their fake implants on the White House lawn.”
What a fucking asshole.
Also this. I dunno man there’s just something about the whole “YOUR [characteristic/group/whatever] hasn’t suffered as much as MY [characteristic/group/whatever]” that just hurts my brain.
Yeah. My community has suffered immensely. Queerness has carried death penalties. We have been denied love. Just everything with AIDS. But black gay people didn’t get a pass on that shit. They just got racism too. If I’m not anti racist I’m hurting people of color in my own community. But also even if I wasn’t, I’d still be hurting my fellow people who’ve been hurt by a hierarchical society.
Every advancement for people of color is a victory in my book, because I don’t want equality just for queer people. I want equality for everyone.
And that’s not even getting into how basically all queer political activism tactics that worked came from black queer people taking the tactics that worked when they were fighting in the black civil rights movement. Us white queer people owe them a great debt.
It’s probably naïveté on a massive scale on my part but I too just want equity for my fellow humans. We end up fighting with each other instead of fighting for each other.
I don’t see it as naïveté, I see it as wisdom and courage. Leaks have shown that the people pushing the current wave of transphobia include the literal Hapsburg family. The rich in America have admitted to stoking racism to keep poor whites in line. Fred Hampton understood who the enemies were, and he taught people it. He died for that.
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Sorry still learning how to work around wefwef’s bugs
Oh yeah no I too had a duplicate. Memmy is struggle bussing it today.
I’m sure the increased traffic is stressing Lemmy in general. I’m getting a lot of errors about too many requests just scrolling on Connect.
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