The tankie try-not-to-be-a-raging-class-reductionist-queerphobe challenge: impossible.

I always got the sense when talking to class reductionist tankies that they were simply thinly veiling their bigotry and the “no war but class war” was just a way they could try to appeal to others while redirecting away from their own abhorrent beliefs. Just another example that tankies aren’t really that different from MAGAts.

They want to bring together the working class of the left and the right but only on the social terms of the right since they know they can’t challenge their bigotry and still win their votes. So instead they want us to shut up about our struggle for rights and only mention what they deem the “correct” struggle.

  • mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Yup, you can’t reference class war if you’re not including ALL MEMBERS OF THE CLASS.

    Trans folk, especially femme, are historically disenfranchised from earming potential. Programmer socks is a bit of a meme but if you look at the meager data we have, trans femme earn less than cis women in STEM fields.

    I say we have meager data because as a percentage of the population, at 1% and that’s over double most estimates. Also being an out group and such a tiny percentage of the population, there is no capitalist incentive to create a study.

    All that being said, there’s 1 in 100 people that want to be a little different. We have plenty of space in society for these people. I absolutely have space for them at the SRA meets, and skill shares, and zine drops, and demonstrations. I have space for them in my life, in my heart and in my thoughts.

    Anti-trans rhetoric is hate speech. It has no place in leftist politics.