KohakuDidNothingWrong

I..... never thought of it in those words.... certainly I believed that the more marginalized you are, the more you can see the ugly truth of the world, the truth that the vast majority of people are practically oblivious to

But it never crossed my mind that the opposite could also be true, that the more privileged you are, the more it affects your worldview without you knowing

Thank you so much for the reply, you really put into words things that are easy to overlook

they dont read anything from poc and dont know we've been talking about this for decades

Yeah, it’s frustrating. Guilt and Western chauvinism makes people uncomfortable and unable to absorb knowledge that challenges their identity, but yeah

cis oppressed people dont want to acknowledge that being trans, especially trans femme, adds another layer of oppression that they, a cis oppressed person, can benefit from even though they are oppressed in other regards. The same extends to poc in the imperial core benefitting from being there and non Black poc in regards to antiblackness

Oh, they absolutely know and I know. We just maliciously ignore it because we don’t want to act against something that benefits us, and we prefer things to stay the way they are.

I used to walk into queer spaces expecting shared politics like anti-colonialism, class struggle, intersectionality. Instead, I repeatedly encountered racism, especially from white queer people

Now I distrust queer people more than the average cis person, not because queer people are uniquely racist, but because the expectation of shared politics made the racism harder to see and more painful when it appeared