Yeah, but there are a lot of people they’re trying to convince to be bigots and you sure can aid in their arguments or hinder them. I’m not going to pretend that people who are undecided on if I deserve rights or who only kinda lean one way are good people. But I want us to make the bigots have to work for it to make us come off badly, or at the very least when we come off badly for it to actually have a chance at advancing anything.
So I guess really my attitude is: what good do posts like this and replies like depicted in it actually serve? Because as far as I’m concerned if I were conducting an anti trans psyop I’d absolutely be encouraging that behavior. It feels good while being easier than activism, community building, and being a positive first interaction with trans people, all while giving plenty of room to allow bigots to claim that they’re the victims of the people they’re actually taking rights from.
You can’t simply “comply” your way into being accepted by bigots, nothing you do will ever be good enough for them.
Yeah, but there are a lot of people they’re trying to convince to be bigots and you sure can aid in their arguments or hinder them. I’m not going to pretend that people who are undecided on if I deserve rights or who only kinda lean one way are good people. But I want us to make the bigots have to work for it to make us come off badly, or at the very least when we come off badly for it to actually have a chance at advancing anything.
So I guess really my attitude is: what good do posts like this and replies like depicted in it actually serve? Because as far as I’m concerned if I were conducting an anti trans psyop I’d absolutely be encouraging that behavior. It feels good while being easier than activism, community building, and being a positive first interaction with trans people, all while giving plenty of room to allow bigots to claim that they’re the victims of the people they’re actually taking rights from.