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I think I'm reverting a bit into some misanthropic and nihilistic tendencies, but at this point I feel like I don't even care about bad things happening to cis people. Everything feels worse for trans people, and I spend a lot of time helping other trans people with problems caused by shitty cis people. I genuinely think 90% of cis breeders hate their trans kids in some way and actively make their lives harder, even the lib 'accepting' ones. I'm like 60% of the way to thinking 'yeah I'm gonna be a terrible slumlord for cis people so I can make trans people live better lives, I'll house them for free by taking money from the cis by being an exploitative landlord'. I have the possibility of actually doing this. I doubt we're having a revolution, so like... isn't this an equalizer? There's also the fact that trans people basically have no familial support, being a landlord exploiting cis people would mean we are forcing society to actually support those without it. I could see alternative arguments, like maybe if you have access to a lot of housing you could just make cheap housing for trans people and that would foster a whole community rather than having a lot of depressed cis people slaving away for a handful of homeless trans people, idk. You'd probably have to deal with anti-discrimination laws with that scheme, whereas giving housing away for free to trans people can be contractless.

Obviously I'm a communist through and through, but why should I care about others outside the community when many cis people clearly aren't in the position materially to even begin to think about communism, let alone trans inclusive communism? Talking to them won't work either when they see you as a freak from the start.

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[-] Chana@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago

90%-ish of all demos have bad and reactionary opinions about other demos, particularly if you live in the imperial core. If taking personal revenge at substantial personal risk is the right approach to this, then you're basically just saying to be adventurist by going after a given demo. Given the depth to which reactionary thought has been entrenched through false consciousness, you would also surely end up targeting other oppressed people disproportionately if your bar becomes the extent to which a given demo is transphobic, homophobic, islamophobic, etc.

Being overly focused on a person's basic traits re: gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, etc, which are all categories with this same dynamic, is actually a false consciousness in yourself as well. The harm caused to trans people is real, and so is transphobia, and so is the preponderant of transphobia among cis people. But you are falling into a trap of false consciousness, in part due to the fact that, as you know, there is no such thing as perfect transdar. You will harm trans people with your guesswork. And you will become essentialist in your thinking.

And if you're a socialist talking about doing socialist things, your project has to be focused on changing society itself through organizing, not individualistic landlordism. Today is the height of trans liberation in the imperial core. There has been literally no better time to be organizing for trans liberation.

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