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The virgin lib white queer: nooooooooo we have to support genocide abroad or else we'll get genocided at home!
The chad leftist poc* queer: even if it brings genocide down on us at home, we must stand in solidarity against the victims of the empire and resist genocide abroad. If the Enemy tries to genocide us here for it, let them try -- we will fight them to the last.
*and to their credit a bunch of queer conrades who happen to be lowercase w white, who've rejected capital W Whiteness.
This reminds me of the famous "paper tiger" Strong-Mao interview I recently read(short read btw, like a page or two and honestly lots of parallels to the current Palestine/Israel+USA can be made).
If the "paper tiger" concept is useful and general, which I am not sure it is tbh, certainly dangling the threat of removing/lessening trans rights (of imperial core people) at the expense of many thousands of Palestinians lives is a type of "paper tiger" pointed inward(Mao's case seems way more dire, one of the poorest most exploited countries in a war with US supporting one side and the fear of nuclear weapons is in the air... huh sounds a little like Palestine/Israel). Trans rights are not given by a couple of politicians, they are decided and fought for by the people as pretty much all rights have. People should be a little more brave, and not be put into a box of "we got to vote blue or else our rights" and maybe that isn't the way to get trans rights and maybe we can get both trans rights and not genocide Palestinians at the same time...