It’s basic rhetoric that targets every group they try to exclude. “Your orientation/gender is not real and you are a cishet faker,” to “your orientation is not Different Enough and is equal to straight (the default) despite not even being defined anyway similar.”
The concept of “special snowflakes” or even further than that, the “your identity is canceled out by other facets of it” is the same.
Claiming invisible identities have “straight (conditional) privilege” and then saying they ought to be treated as/practically are straight because of that “privilege.”
Seeing identities devoid of any attraction or genders that….don’t have any gender, and saying they are “just straight,” or “just cis,” because wow, default.
Claiming some identities are invalid because “everyone is like that,” basically establishing a norm and saying everyone functions that way (showing the belief of a default in the first place.)
The one in particular I see most, the claim that other non het orientations can’t “un-straight you,” because only being gay can apparently. Because obviously everyone is simply straight and un-straighted.
The prejudice against m-spec people as “traitors” or some such drivel because they are “half het,” or that “opposite” gender partnered ones are straight with a twist.
The prioritization of the cis default in the language they choose (such as “SGA,” And the concept of “straight passing privilege,”) and binary view of attraction, where you’re either gay or you’re straight, regardless of your actual identity.
All of these are what exclusionists do, it leads to their exclusion, their harmful rhetoric, their insistence that bisexuals aren’t real, that ace/aro isn’t its own orientation that is literally different from straight, that nonbinary people don’t exist, that binary people can’t be trans, etc. Its all from the same basic beliefs.
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