2025-02-08 21:08:09
2025-02-08 21:08:09
2025-02-08 21:08:09
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Pretty spot on and in line with the book I'm reading atm ("Disaster Nationalism" by Richard Seymour). Trans people (and other marginalized groups) are in this understanding nothing more than scapegoats; someone concrete to blame for the general and often abstract state of things.
You can't very well tell climate change to go f**ck itself, or give inflation a kick in the nuts. But you can make life harder for trans people in different ways. And if this isn't met with resistance, there are very few obstacles for this to move from hateful memes online to physical violence - and in a worst case scenario: actual pogroms. Witch hunts.
This is why protest is important.
You can't very well tell climate change to go f**ck itself, or give inflation a kick in the nuts. But you can make life harder for trans people in different ways. And if this isn't met with resistance, there are very few obstacles for this to move from hateful memes online to physical violence - and in a worst case scenario: actual pogroms. Witch hunts.
This is why protest is important.
Laverne Cox:
“At the end of the day, trans people are less than 1% of the population and trans people are not the reason you can’t afford eggs, that you can’t afford healthcare. We’re not the reason you can’t buy a house or your rent’s too high. I think they’re focused on the wrong 1%. I think the other one percent is the reason for all those things.”
