- LGBT people who accuse asexuals of “appropriating and diluting their struggle”
- Radlibs who call advocacy of indigenous sovereignty “supporting ethnostates”
- Feminists who imply that men can’t be victims of SV because “they belong to the oppressor class”
- Anti-colonialists who argue against veganism because “veganism is anti-indigenous”
Lots of people will identify and fight for their own material interests, but empathy with and support for the struggles of others is depressingly rare.
Leftism without intersectionality is worthless and these are some great reasons why
Unfortunately, that is most “leftism” you find on mainstream social media. Good to take a break from those places, honestly.
And the thing is that I’m at a point where I consider this kind of thinking, this “progressive views as a Trojan horse for reactionary views” dynamic, to be the rule, not the exception. In other words, to go off of the examples you gave, I don’t assume that an LGBT person is ace-inclusive by default—they have to actively show it and prove it. I don’t assume that a feminist is not transphobic/bioessentialist by default—they have to actively show it and prove it. I have unfortunately become quite cynical through how much I have witnessed this, but honestly, I see it as a means of self-preservation.
It’s more insidious than openly reactionary chuddery. If open chuddery is a labeled bottle of cyanide, “woke” bigotry is flour adulterated with cyanide.
Another depressingly common one is “trans liberation/queer liberation is rich white ppls thing, the rest of us dont have time for frivolous shit like that”
“Are ✨️trans✨️ women bourquoisie?” a question many “progressives” 1) think is a serious worthwhile question 2) think the answer is “yes”
Ah, but have you considered that [insert cool and based cause] is idealist and anti-materialist because I, some privileged and incurious fuckhead, have internalized that [opposite of cool and based cause] is the natural order of the world?
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It’s kinda hard to make people care about animals when themselves are treated worse than a westerner pet.
there’s also the famous “we can bomb arabs because they threat gays and women bad”
From extensive firsthand experience, it’s hard to make well-off westerners care about animals too.
yea poor people cant afford meat
