I feel like I am a fool for not noticing this when I was younger, but it always seems that every time a white queer person puts on a front of being a "wholesome innocent" person its always a veil for their shallow core of being selfish fuckers who will gladly utilize hierarchies for their own end.
Like at the core they are no different from chuds. Their main difference is that they just want a nicer version of this settler colonial society with the hierarchies still intact.
To some up my points:
Most white "radical" queers are reformists who would not actually side with a revolution that meaningfully tried to destroy the foundation of society, such as a Haitian revolution situation.
They might want a socialist society that reforms the western gender system to be kinder to some expressions of gender expansivity, and a nicer white supremacy, but they don't want to break these social relationships altogether.
@decommodifylife It's not just in queer, or indeed American spaces.
A lot of white people elsewhere think that if only the economic system is changed to what they want, racism will be solved automatically - without understanding anything about structural racism.
@decommodifylife not really limited to queers but it is pervasive with white people--- the modern sense of politeness & civility grew out of both feudalism & white enslaving cultures where failing to be obsequious to one's social superiors meant torture or death
It's why white people are so hateful about gossip--it was used for centuries by slaves to subvert slaver authority, in the same way whisper networks do with abusers
Anyone who presents too much of a "look how friendly and *nice* I am" persona is immediately suspect imo because their entire reputation hinges on them always being perceived as being unimpeachable & anything can (and eventually will) threaten that which must then be squashed, usually by sycophants or social rules
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