We're fighting the same oppressive forces though, so it's not at all comparable to changing the topic to oppression Olympics. But if you'll be so defensive when a real issue comes up I'm not interested in taking further.
The difference is that reactionary black people don't have racial privileges the way white people generally do, black people are more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators, and I don't know if you're reading the room or not but their communities have been terrorized for centuries. Without knowing anything about you personally I can't comment on your experiences, but we live in a racist system designed to keep black people down and superexploit them. Even as things get progressively worse for us trans folks we need to stay in solidarity with black people and other POC, it's the right thing to do and there's a lot we can learn by listening to them.
I'm trans and white passing too, I'm sorry for your bad experiences, I've had plenty too. I just wanted to say that there's a very real issue with white LGBT+ people aligning themselves with their whiteness more than their queerness, especially for cis people, but even trans folks (see people like Contrapoints). So for systemic issues you do see a divide that we shouldn't ignore.
Many scholars in sociology and Black Studies define racism not just as personal prejudice, but as a structural system that requires power to enforce racial bias. This framework argues that for prejudice to function as racism, it must be backed by societal power which leads to real-world consequences and material disadvantages for marginalized groups. From this perspective, a society where institutional power is held by white people, only white people can enact racism.
Quoting it because you need to read it again. If you wanna be dense this is the end of our conversation here.
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If you're gonna bait you gotta do a better job lol
Europe is profitting off child slavery and other horrible shit worldwide. This isn't a thing of the past only, and being dismissive like this is beyond disrespectful to the many victims of capitalism.
Sounds a lot like you're supporting fascism to me.
I'm a communist, I support the free determination of all people, I just don't support killing random ass civilians in the name of your self determination, and I wouldn't trust any separatist movement that willingly sides with the US and/or Israel, for obvious reasons. I believe that the Kurdish struggle matters and they have the seeds to do something great, and this isn't that.
Japan hasn't even given a symbolic apology for their massive list of war crimes against China and all over Asia, Taiwan is part of China under international law, and the nationalist forces you defend were murdering communists while under attack by Japan. You fascist sympathizers...
They're literally jorjor whale 1972 😔
Thanks for the writeup! I'll keep all of that in mind.