• Silverseren@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I really don’t understand why so many trans individuals state their alliance with tankies, when any government tankies support are totally fine with murdering them.

    They’re okay with ragging on the US’ problems against the LGBT+ community (and there are many such problems to rag on), but conveniently ignore things like gay and trans people being killed in droves in Chechnya.

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      1 year ago

      Might be that the total subsumption of all issues to class means that LGBT people can feel more welcomed in tankie communities as individuals because tankie communities don’t regard the issue as of importance. Rather than feeling the sting of rejection in right-wing communities (and there are a terrifying number of right-wing LGBT folk) or the strong emphasis on LGBT community and culture in many left-leaning communities that may leave some feeling ‘out of the loop’ and depersonalized, even if that’s not the general feeling or the intent.

      Alternatively, LGBT people are just people, and people are often dumb. Whichever.