Think of it this way - you’re a queer person who has struggled most of your life to feel safe and accepted. Then you meet a community that tells you all transphobes get the firing squad. Suddenly you feel safe, accepted, and like you matter. That emotional contrast is veryy appealing and addicting.
Nevermind that in real life, if you were putting people to the firing squads for as little as saying “neopronouns are stupid” will actually just make the majority of people fear and hate the queer community in the long run.
Oh yeah, no argument there, just like those log cabin conservatives or whatever, there will always be people who both internalise their own oppression to such a degree, and also have the willingness to step over others to benefit themselves, who will act as “one of the good ones” for the oppressing group, tokens they think will be spared but never are.
Absolutely true.
There are, however, for some unfathomable reason, queer tankies. That, I do not understand.
Think of it this way - you’re a queer person who has struggled most of your life to feel safe and accepted. Then you meet a community that tells you all transphobes get the firing squad. Suddenly you feel safe, accepted, and like you matter. That emotional contrast is veryy appealing and addicting.
Nevermind that in real life, if you were putting people to the firing squads for as little as saying “neopronouns are stupid” will actually just make the majority of people fear and hate the queer community in the long run.
and also in real life the soviet union regularly executed queers
Same type of people as Log Cabin Republicans
There were also Jews for Hitler.
Oh yeah, no argument there, just like those log cabin conservatives or whatever, there will always be people who both internalise their own oppression to such a degree, and also have the willingness to step over others to benefit themselves, who will act as “one of the good ones” for the oppressing group, tokens they think will be spared but never are.