Kinda sick and tired of people treating racism like it’s no big deal, and specifically especially sick and tired of people blindly crying “transmisogynistic harassment” whenever someone criticizes their favorite white trans woman for her racism.
More people are talking about TADC’s leaks in sympathy for Gooseworx than they are about her being silent on how she participated in racist jokes other than implying it was not “genuine” racism. Nobody seems to bring up Patricia “I am also limited in my ability to racially oppress due to being trans and disabled” Taxxon’s consistent racism, despite her becoming relevant again due to the latest incident with Hbomberguy. A lot of popular transfem bloggers on Tumblr have a history of racism too, but God forbid you bring it up.
I feel fucking crazy. What happened to “you are white before you are anything else”? So many popular trans women on here are specifically white trans women who you’re not allowed to point out have said racist shit that they still stand by, or you’re the bad person. You’re overreacting. You’re harassing a poor innocent white woman over nothing that actually matters, and you need to touch grass and learn what a real problem is. These women are allowed to wield their white woman tears by crying about how oppressed they are and how hard their lives are and how everybody is out to get them when criticized for racism, and people just BUY IT?? Not just buy it, but ENFORCE IT, harass others who DON’T buy it, accuse the ones who don’t buy it of, and I quote, LYNCHING her.
White trans women are not less likely to be racist than any other type of white person, but they’re treated like they are, and the notion they could be racist is treated as inherently ridiculous, defamatory, and transmisogynistic.
I think that some people need to come to grips with the fact that some of these women are blatantly, openly racist, and hide behind their disabilities/mental illnesses and their transness. We cannot be positioning white trans women as an authority on all systems of oppression, because white trans women are not the modern martyr for the oppressed voice. Black trans women have felt everything they have, 100 times worse. White trans women’s suffering is real, but suffering as a white woman is just so much different. And if we want the trans community to be safe for POC, we need to start actually calling racism from trans people out, instead of being the girl who cried transmisogynistic harassment campaign.
But this is the website that says a term coined by a Black trans woman to call out racism from white members of the transfem community is inherently transmisogynistic (even a transmisogynistic slur) and should never be used. So maybe I’m just talking to a (very racist) brick wall here.
❗️ OP is transfem ❗️
This post is essentially “white transfem begins to more consciously notice 0.1% of the shit that Black transfems have to deal with — immediately driven insane”
My take is this.
We as a progressive society have gone past the point where we can accept some humor as subjective, and still know it as unserious and in good faith, and moral absolutism has ruined how people can engage in humor around people who claim to be progressive.
But ALSO, gooseworx is a piece of shit regardless of whether she’s racist or not, so this doesn’t really phase me.
Looking at the clips people reference paints a clear picture to me. Someone’s username used the prefix “nega,” short for negative, and the VAs saw that as funny and possibly racist, so their initial jokes were making fun of that person’s potentially racist username.
Then, goose referred to her good buddy vivzie’s oc with black skin/fur as “nega-angel,” referencing the earlier joke and making a race joke.
That’s not a particularly racist statement, it doesn’t attack black identity and isn’t stating a slur, however it is close to the latter.
When this first broke out, I saw dozens of black folks saying they didn’t give a shit, and that it was 7 years ago and not even offensive at that.
Once the finale leaked and it was dogshit, and once people realized goose was friends with Vivienne “I am an evil pedophile rapist” medrano, they changed their minds about the controversy out of nowhere.
I think this is mainly piggybacking off of the fact that gooseworx is a hack, not really being worried about serious racism.
I mean, let’s be real. Looking at the audience for something like the huniecast and the target audience of TADC and hazbin, who’s gonna be radicalized or turned racist by a joke like that? And further so, why wouldn’t they be by the actual race stereotypes in hazbin itself instead?
Goose has said before she believes this kind of humor is best kept private, and I believe that, but she made the clear mistake of putting it out there publicly.
This whole thing is stupid as fuck.
For all the identity clarification virtue signaling assholes, I’m mixed race, part white, part Korean, gender queer and gay. I’m also a political socialist and general progressive.
