This. The wrath and reaction you see from people even on the left to the suggestion that they might need to educate themselves on privilege is really telling.
See: stupidpol and other class reductionists, the pronoun struggle session before the transphobes got purged.
There’s a reason libs co-opted a lot of the language around privilege. Pseudo-leftists based in contrarianism completely miss that aspect.
If I remember correctly, the “effeminacy” thing China has been gunning against isn’t about gender expression as much as “idol culture”. I’ll see if I can find the threads I was reading on that from a queer activist in China.
As is typical, the western media happily jumped on trying to use this as a propaganda angle. The thread I was reading had some criticism of other policies because China isn’t a utopia, but it was pretty clear on the intent there.
This. The wrath and reaction you see from people even on the left to the suggestion that they might need to educate themselves on privilege is really telling.
See: stupidpol and other class reductionists, the pronoun struggle session before the transphobes got purged.
There’s a reason libs co-opted a lot of the language around privilege. Pseudo-leftists based in contrarianism completely miss that aspect.