Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at home. Have a seat in the overpriced, sweat-infused Razer™ gaming chair over there. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is our weekly discussion thread!
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It’s so frustrating interacting with mainstream trans communities. The amount of political naïveté, or sometimes outright anticommunist or imperialist trash you have to deal with from people who really should know better.
I’m just so frustrated, with one person in particular who is friends with an employee at Raytheon, loves to talk like one of those pro-Nazi ‘military analysis’ twitter folks about the US’s war in the Ukraine - including using slurs to describe Russians (very cool coming from a member of a marginalized group that has quite a lot of slurs directed at us). And even now complained about a “Stalin-shill” who was trying to argue that air travel should use metric instead of imperial measurements. I mean… wtf does someone being a communist have to do with their promotion of metric?
Maybe that’s what they think anti-imperialist means?
I honestly have a feeling that many trans idpol activists being in the labor aristocracy and blindly pandering to imperialist talking points drives many would-be comrades into the patsoc camp
tbf I have no idea what this lass does, beyond wasting time on discord.
And while I get what you’re saying, I have zero patience for patsocs who see trans people parroting imperialist lies; but somehow don’t care about all the cishet white men who massively outnumber us and who mostly originate those lies. I think a lot of them just want an excuse not to confront their bigotry.