If you identify as LGBT, I truly feel you have a very real duty to let all the acephobes and islamophobes and transphobes and interphobes and ableists and racists and other shitlords in your LGBT community know that they are NOT WELCOME.
Like, seriously. for example: the asexual community on Tumblr is dealing with such a huge onslaught of acephobes right now. Tumblr blogs about asexuality suffer pretty much constant attacks, from anon hate to whisper campaigns to doxing. And most of the acephobes that do this identify as LGBT.
There is a group of LGBT people out there who believe they need to ‘protect’ LGBT spaces by violently attacking vulnerable communities. Now those people don’t care if aces hate them, but they might care if they know LGBT people hate them too. So if you are LGBT and you are NOT a violent acephobe, what have you done to let these shitlords know that their behaviour is not welcome?
i get your point although i dont think it’s fair to exclude other lgbt+ just bc they may be aphobic
lgbt+ is a community for EVERYONE who doesnt identify themselves as cishets and we should not focus on excluding each other but fight the straights instead
i definitely believe there can be arohets and acehets and that they should be a part of the community if they want to, but i dont agree with your example.
even though aphobia exists, it’s not any more special or different oppression than what the other lgbt+ members receive. lgbt+ phobia and racism is comparable but compring aphobia to racism is kinda stupid. it’s as if i would compre the racism asians get within the anti-racist community to lgbt+phobia.
no one in the lgbt+ community OPRESSES the other. biphobic gays or transphobic pans do not oppress bi’s or trans ppl. they are phobic but an oppression is more than just a few ppl in an already oppressed community. the ones who oppress are the straights bc they are the ones who controls the systems and laws and they oppress everyone in the lgbt+.
i do agree that there are some ppl in the lgbt+ who recieves more hate and phobia than others though (both from society and other members of the lgbt+). but it’s not oppression and can therefore not be compared to racism, sexism, etc. and we shouldnt shut them out bc of it. and we should nor fight each other but the straights!!!! (not the a-straights, but the “straight-straughts)
I think you highly underestimate what it feels like to face discrimination in the one place where you are supposed to be safe. It can be incredibly violent and it is often far more painful than facing discrimination in the rest of the world because the last place you had left is being taken away from you. And losing that support has very real material consequences.
The fact that the people who are doing this have less privilege than the rest of society does not change at all how much damage they can do when they make an unsafe place out of the only place you have left.
The one doing the excluding in a situation like that is the one that decides to make the space unsafe with their bigotry. When I act against their violence it is not me being exclusive, it is me restoring the inclusivity of the space by acting against what is making it unsafe.
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To be honest, I have zero interest in fighting ‘the straights’ and I see very little point in pretending that the world is composed of ‘the straights’ who have all the power and ‘the lgbt+’ who have none of the power. The world very clearly isn’t organized like that and when I am out there fighting oppression it is very clear to me that I have more in common with the straight working class person of color working to end racism than with the rich queer person trying to become the fight queer CEO of a company.
I am interested in fighting systematic homophobia, transphobia, biphobia, aphobia etc. And for that matter I am interested in fighting racism, ableism, islamophobia, etc. Wherever I find it. If I see any of there things in my local LGBT+ community I will not tolerate it.
And I don’t think there is anything divisive about that. The only people who are being divisive are the people who decide that bigotry has a space in this place of solidarity and resistance that we’ve build together.
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