Homonationalists still believe that being one of the good ones will save them. It won’t. Throwing trans people under the bus won’t help any of them, either. This is the most assimilated gay man i can imagine, a guy who is playing the respectability politics game as a pro, who is white, cis, rich, politically connected and able to pull strings in the press and at the CIA when they come for him and it’s still not enough to keep the hogs off his back. And it can’t be. The entire approach is a dead end.
Remember, when you are fine with the weirdest, least respectable part of the queer community being sacrificed, that means that after we are gone, after the clocky trans women and the blue hair and pronouns brigade and kink at pride and drag queens are gone, you have not increased acceptance of queerness, you have merely moved the goalposts for who the least acceptable people in the community are. They will come for rainbow families and bisexual dudes and butch lesbians and transmedicalists and everybody with a grindr profile next, as we see here they already are at that point, and after this the playbook will be to escalate things to attacks on no fault divorce, contraception and interracial marriage, because the SCOTUS has already hinted that may be eligible for the chopping block as all of that hinges on a “right to privacy” that the nazi judges do not recognize at all.
This stuff is all or nothing. Think of that next time somebody tells you that neopronouns were too much or when somebody says that the porn bans they are working on rn will only target the really gross and weird stuff.
The existence of people weirder than you makes you seem more normal. You always lose with respectability politics because you let the worst people in the world decide what counts as respectable.
If they know you personally, they’ll tell you that you’re “one of the good ones” to your face, but you’d better believe they’re gonna go out of their way to send your address and schedule to the brownshirts.
“One of the good ones” means they’re just not personally willing to risk prison time to kill you yet.
It’s literally the entire point of the “first they came for x” poem. With fascism the “in” group inevitably shrinks and the “out” group always expands. They started with targeting trans folk, those with neo-pronouns, and generally anyone who isn’t white and doesn’t cleanly fit into the LG(sometimes B) part of LGBT.
Sure it started with them fear mongering about bathrooms or making up shit about litter boxes in schools but if the fascists get their way all queerness will be persecuted, no matter how privileged you are or if you’re “one of the good ones”
you have merely moved the goalposts for who the least acceptable people in the community are.
Not merely. It’s even worse. They’ll use the defeat of the specific group as an example of how unreasonable your movement is, and they’ll use it as a cudgle against the rest.
If you accept the defeat of sacrificing a certain group, they’ll weaponize that defeat against you.
Homonationalists still believe that being one of the good ones will save them. It won’t. Throwing trans people under the bus won’t help any of them, either. This is the most assimilated gay man i can imagine, a guy who is playing the respectability politics game as a pro, who is white, cis, rich, politically connected and able to pull strings in the press and at the CIA when they come for him and it’s still not enough to keep the hogs off his back. And it can’t be. The entire approach is a dead end.
Remember, when you are fine with the weirdest, least respectable part of the queer community being sacrificed, that means that after we are gone, after the clocky trans women and the blue hair and pronouns brigade and kink at pride and drag queens are gone, you have not increased acceptance of queerness, you have merely moved the goalposts for who the least acceptable people in the community are. They will come for rainbow families and bisexual dudes and butch lesbians and transmedicalists and everybody with a grindr profile next, as we see here they already are at that point, and after this the playbook will be to escalate things to attacks on no fault divorce, contraception and interracial marriage, because the SCOTUS has already hinted that may be eligible for the chopping block as all of that hinges on a “right to privacy” that the nazi judges do not recognize at all.
This stuff is all or nothing. Think of that next time somebody tells you that neopronouns were too much or when somebody says that the porn bans they are working on rn will only target the really gross and weird stuff.
The existence of people weirder than you makes you seem more normal. You always lose with respectability politics because you let the worst people in the world decide what counts as respectable.
Truth nuke. In contexts like these, I have YET to see a chud ever say “hey wait, this gay chud is one of the good ones.”
“one of the good ones” is for people they know personally
If they know you personally, they’ll tell you that you’re “one of the good ones” to your face, but you’d better believe they’re gonna go out of their way to send your address and schedule to the brownshirts.
“One of the good ones” means they’re just not personally willing to risk prison time to kill you yet.
It’s literally the entire point of the “first they came for x” poem. With fascism the “in” group inevitably shrinks and the “out” group always expands. They started with targeting trans folk, those with neo-pronouns, and generally anyone who isn’t white and doesn’t cleanly fit into the LG(sometimes B) part of LGBT.
Sure it started with them fear mongering about bathrooms or making up shit about litter boxes in schools but if the fascists get their way all queerness will be persecuted, no matter how privileged you are or if you’re “one of the good ones”
Not merely. It’s even worse. They’ll use the defeat of the specific group as an example of how unreasonable your movement is, and they’ll use it as a cudgle against the rest.
If you accept the defeat of sacrificing a certain group, they’ll weaponize that defeat against you.