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I was kicked out of rentals multiple times for being visibly queer. I was scared out of some more by people who even moved after me, but made my life a living hell just for being queer. I was driven into near daily crying during highschool by my peers and sometimes even teachers. I was regularly spat on in public with no reaction from other people. I had a car full of tank top wearing men stop with the intention of beating me up when I was in middle school because they thought I looked too much like a "f*g". To see people, some of whom apparently so privileged they don't even experience systematic queerphobia as per own admission, claim us here aren't queer is so hurtful because it feels like it dismisses my entire lifetime of queer pain. Sincere fuck you to the people who make those claims. Maybe you are the one who isn't even queer and just sows discord amogus. trans-uno amogus

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[-] autismdragon@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago

Most of them don't realize it activly but subconciously they just want queer westerns to have the capitalist version of "equality" in whatever country they are from and for queer people to have their share of the plunder. In my experience with them its not actively, cognizant malicious but thats what drives it in the end.

I do think part of it as well is being trapped in the Overton window, where the Democrats or whatever their country's equivalent is are the only socially accepted method of liberating queer people. As has been commented before, thats what "The left" is. I mean I certainly believed that at one point. So they cling to that out of fear of the outright fascists and think that voting for left-liberals is the only way to stop them. Its a fear response, and tbh a sort of understandable one. But when your reaction to seeing a better path to TRUE liberation is to violently reject it and close your ears, my sympathy starts to stop.

Probably an element of internalized assimilationism as well.

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

yeah ive always been a commie of some variety (and sometimes not describing myself as anything because i had a period of misanthropy where i hated everyone), so its a view that is extremely hard for me to understand

[-] autismdragon@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

I'm definitely an ex-liberal so I get the mindset to an extent but like, it didn't take me very long after exposure to communism to accept it as better. Accepting anti-imperialism was a bit harder admittedly it took a few struggles but I got there.

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