Because I recently had to crumple up a cracKKKa who wandered into this community, uhh, let me be clear:
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Thank you. With that aside, welcome to this week's featured EM POC thread.
How are all my comrades doing?
this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2024
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Just remember for this blaming minorities and gen z: both demographics came out in big numbers to the blm protests and vote against Trump. The numbers show that Trump didn’t really win any new converts. Majority just stayed home and the only demographics to vote for Trump as a majority were white men/women.
You can bet which one is going to have articles giving them a lot more sympathy.
I literally saw a post that showed Trump voter stats for race and gender, but they were completely separate, and white people and men as groups were roughly the same percentage, but this liberal white woman commented on the post, "Wow, men are not okay" or something to that effect. This is just reinforcing the theory that many Western white feminists do not care about ending oppression; they just want patriarchy to stop inconveniencing them personally. They'll side with white supremacy if given the chance.
And, of course, there's this. This is not a first-time thing for me.
This is why I often have a lot of hard time trusting mainstream feminists or even get wary when I see any "anti-male" stuff. On the surface, to a non-intersectional, close-minded cracKKKer who has never thought critically about feminism in their life, complaining about men collectively just comes off as women innocuously exercising their very much justified frustration with patriarchy, which isn't false in many cases. However, such rhetoric has harmed men of color in particular, and trans people do get negatively impacted by the bioessentialist implications that sometimes are hidden within these kinds of complaints.
Most Hexbears not being aware of the fact that this sentiment has been used in racist ways isn't a shock to me because Hexbear absolutely can be mayo as fuck, but with how many trans users we have, I'm surprised at how many people on this site act like this kind of rhetoric is never used to hurt trans people. And by that, I mean, no, it doesn't only hurt trans people in the case of mask-off Rowlingesque TERF rhetoric; mainstream liberal feminism is plagued with this shit too. I think I just found it easier to notice because, as a transfem of color, the reactionary stick of imperial feminists beats me twice as hard.
It does seem very convenient to now have a "valid" reason to see me as dangerous rather than just because I'm brown
Ain't that some shit