thatfckingay replied to your post “Being repressed/oppressed doesn’t feel the same way as being...”
This is the clearest distinction ive ever read dude
Glad to hear it bc I had to process this issue in my head all night to get this distilled. Had a convo with an inclusionist that left a bad taste in my mouth and it was honestly so triggering to try to explain what homophobia and transphobia feel like as experiences and as background violence, including me talking about being from Orlando and being LGBT post-pulse and the response was
“So are you saying being oppressed is what makes someone queer?”
This coming from someone who said they knew what homophobia was like bc they’ve seen their lesbian friend (TOKEN TOKEN TOKEN) go through it. When I said knowing what something looks like and experiencing it firsthand are two different things, they agreed, but still said that bc they experienced ANY discrimination it was basically the same.
Like the white redditor 4chan argument dialogue just JUMPED out. It feels like cultural appropriation bullshit all over again. “Oh so you’re saying I can’t be part of this dialogue because I’m white? Sounds awfully racist of you, I thought you believed in equality”. Like yes, actually, not experiencing something or being less vulnerable to it does in fact make your voice less relevant to it as an issue.
I was middle of the road on this inclusion shit but not anymore. It’s not the same, and the fact that inclusionists seem dedicated to denying that truth is the same shit as when white people deny racism bc ‘they’ve struggled too’. Like is it institutionalized tho????????? Is there a history though??? But could you DIE?
