If lumping people in with their oppressors is forbidden, then you cannot use LGBT, as it lumps us trans people in with cisgender people, it lumps women in with men, etc.
Maybe learn how intersectionality, demographics, and just plain fucking language work before making such awful arguments for the sake of discourse
It’s also literally a terf argument (they used to say it about the word cis), so…there’s that
Every damn time someone tries to articulate a form of discrimination that specifically effects one group, someone who does not experience that
form of discrimination will get so pissed about the idea of having any privilege at all that they’ll throw a huge fit going ‘YOU ARE GROUPING ME IN WITH MY OPPRESSORS’. No I’m not. I’m naming one form of oppression you do not have to deal with today. Get over it.
Though to be honest, this problem is likely to remain as long as identity politics remains so loaded with this weird sort of ‘self esteem based on my identity + love of all people in my identity + hatred of all people with privilege over me’, which makes the idea of being the privileged party so scary that people freak out at the thought of having any privilege at all.
And the thing is, this is deliberate. It is a way in which liberal identity politics keeps us boxed in, focussing only on our own group at the expense of people we have more in common with. So if our group is trans people, liberal identity politics has us rooting for rich powerful trans people but not for the cis disabled man next door, even though that guy has experiences of oppression that are a lot closer to ours.
Intersectionality stops us from being totally single-issue focussed and helps us do very necessary work focussing more on subgroups of subgroups. Which is useful but not enough. Alongside intersextionality we need cross-identity Solidarity. And the first thing we need to understand is that when we’re fighting the systems of oppression, we need to group ourselves in with those with a different kind of oppression than us, based on a common desire to not be oppressed.
Today some aphobic anon send me a message that literally, seriously, had the sentence ‘cishets are the enemy’ in it, and if that doesn’t show you how far away from solidarity you can get when you take identity politics to its individualist conclusion, I don’t know what does.
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