I'm not going to link to it, it's disgusting as hell, but JKR has *again* gone after Imane Khelif, hours apart from her lauding the HBO reboot trailer.
Support of her show *necessarily* validates not only her transphobia, but also her using transphobic hate to justify racism.
Because c'mon, that's what this is. Transphobia is a wedge, and always has been. Once you have established that there's a group of people that's OK to hurt, you can use that to justify whatever other kinds of hate you want.
Transphobia gives white women like JKR the narrative tools they need to police bodies of color.
It's embarrassing that it took this for me to realize how some of those dynamics work, but I think to reading Tal Lavin's Culture Warlords, and he had a point about how transphobia sometimes has roots in antisemitism, thanks to right-wing extremist forums believing that transphobia is a Jewish conspiracy.
Reading that as a white ex-Christian person who has never been at threat from antisemitism was kind of a shock, seeing how I could be used as a proxy for antisemetic conspiracy theories.
Like, if I, as someone who is not in any slight, remote, or indirect way Jewish, see antisemetic conspiracy theories about any part of my identity, I'm being used as a wedge or someone else is being used as a wedge against me.
If Imane Khelif, someone who is unambiguously cisgender, gets transphobic hate, then my identity is being used as a proxy to justify hate against her.
Understanding my own privilege and how it can be used to hurt others is praxis.
Cassandra is only carbon now