Hex wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2024 6:22 pm
Anthony Flack wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2024 3:31 pm
Hex wrote: Fri Sep 13, 2024 9:24 pm
How come it’s never the bigots that are called “narcissistic” for not caving to trans rights or supporting an end to Palestinian genocide?
It's people who see voting as an expression of their personal beliefs rather than as a tactical decision who are narcissistic.
That is missing my point: why is that only ever fucking directed at marginalized people who do that but not likewise for transphobes and zionists who vote as expressions of their personal beliefs? There is an huge fucking double standard here and it’s fucking shitty to constantly encounter this. I *never* see anyone complaining about transphobes or zionists in the Democratic party who wouldn’t get in line to vote if Harris explicitly supported trans rights or not sending arms to Israel. Instead I log on the internet every day to see cis people fucking hammering on and on against trans people for this and it fucking feels like shit, especially when it’s coming from people who claim they aren’t transphobic despite always seeming to aim their ire at us if we don’t completely fall in line. Jesus fucking christ I hate that I even have to explain this
The answer, of course, is simple: those people currently have power, and the negotiations around national electoralism are fundamentally about the conditions under which they maintain their power! It’s obvious hypocrisy and seeing ordinary liberal voters parrot that shit is reflective of a deep disease at the heart of the neoliberal project, but I’m not really surprised — the GOP isn’t the only group that has lists of disposable people