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  • I definitely get what you’re saying. Me goofing with this analogy relates to a more generalized context in which a queer person is a victim of bigotry at the hands of cishet people specifically because of their queerness. However, I see how it is not necessarily the same, though, because, in such a case, a cishet Palestinian has no power over a lesbian settler. A mentality that queers can never oppress cishet people in any capacity or anything of the sort would be short-sighted.

    I also definitely agree that people lose sight of how other aspects of one’s identity can factor into these kinds of things. For instance, discourse that flattens things down to a “man = oppressor” and “woman = oppressed” dichotomy have been able to overlook the fact that white women have notoriously weaponized their white womanhood to enact violence against Black men and are just as complicit as white men when it comes to committing racist atrocities.

    Solid point to consider overall!