How to be a complete shitbag in intracommunity discourse in six easy steps:
1. Assert that minority group X does not suffer material oppression.
2. Treat this assertion as so self-evidently true that any argument or evidence to the contrary can be dismissed without examination as a falsehood or misdirection.
3. Forcibly reframe any attempt by a member of group X to bring their own lived experiences into the conversation as just talking about their feelings.
4. Accuse them of being a terrible person for attempting to put their hurt feelings on par with other people’s material oppression.
5. Compile as many examples as you can of members of group X behaving badly, and constantly bring them up at random, thereby framing an implicit fallback argument that even if group X does suffer material oppression after all, they deserve it because they’re all awful.
6. If anyone tries to point out what you’re doing in step 5, reframe that as whining about hurt feelings, too, and return to step 4.
I can’t decide if it’s funny or sad that I’m not sure if this post is about TERFism, aphobia, biphobia, queerphobia, or a combination of the above.
YES. I wrote some more on this:
http://queeranarchism.tumblr.com/post/157141356808/terfs-biphobes-and-acephobes
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