Pardon me while I go to my gay closet and put on my gay clothes so I can dress up and pretend to be a gay and post on Hexbear again.
This is your brain on liberal "allyship"; they'll deny your GSRM minority status, strip you of it, and insult you based on it if you dare to disagree with them.
I've legit had massive slapfights with libs and the "I'm very socialist-leaning" crowd over the
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queer Putin image and the
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Trump kissing Putin image (which, sidebar, is also anti-communist and a product of cold war fearmongering over reds) because "it doesn't depict queer people in a negative light" on the justification that "it's only offensive to Trump and Putin!!"
Except for the fact that they are using queer representation to vilify those figures. That's kind of a bad thing, no?
Imagine if you depicted Putin or Trump as black and then tried to defend artistic blackface and maligning an oppressed group by claiming "it's totally cool and I'm way progressive because it's only designed to offend Putin and Trump. People who aren't racist wouldn't find the existence of black people offensive!!"
Like, bruh... for real?
You're sitting around with your internet buddies laughing at how disgusting and ridiculous queer Putin or gay Trump images are and you're going to tell me that it isn't casting queerness in a negative light and you're going to demand that I also perform in your mental gymnastics to believe you when you tell me that Putin and Trump are sitting on their hoards of wealth and power, like dragons in a fantasy story, and they're seething while looking in on your little shitposts on the internet? Get real.
they'll deny your GSRM minority status, strip you of it, and insult you based on it if you dare to disagree with them.
If you don't vote for me, your not a real f*ggot Jack!!
Putin and Trump are sitting on their hoards of wealth and power, like dragons in a fantasy story, and they're seething while looking in on your little shitposts on the internet? Get real.
This is the part that slays me about social media. The Tic Tac videos where chuds are seething about something and issuing a challenge to a nebulous "y'all"; saying some shit like they're not going to lay down and take their prostate exam. It's the same thing as libs trying to get le epic troll on drumf or Winnie the Pooh. Who the hell do these smooth brains think they're talking to? I'm scared you're right and they believe politics is run though reddit, and world leaders doom scroll all day and that's doing a politic.
I feel like I've been shilling this idea on Hexbear since I signed up but, to rehash it once again:
The terminally-liberal brain is so steeped in this reflexive (as in "a reflex", not as in "turning the concept inwards" - fuck I hate autoantonyms smh) equality that they take their own personal experiences and universalise them, completely whitewashing the fact that there are vastly different people, classes, cultures, worldviews etc.
It's nice to think of everyone as ultimately equal, don't get me wrong, but when that idea gets overextended then it becomes "my (hegemonic) worldview and my experience of and relationship to the world is the same as everyone else's" it becomes toxic because it becomes a barrier to truly understanding something like intergenerational trauma or the effects of serious poverty or even just understanding that some cultures are more communally-minded than individualistic.
This is clearly demonstrated by those r/ABoringDystopia posts of homeless people wearing VR headsets. Bruh, do you not spend time at home on leisure and escapism? Would you not want to engage in escapism if you were homeless? I get that you think you're special and you've done something unique in order to earn your station and that, if you were homeless, you'd pawn that VR headset and use your entrepreneurial spirit to bring yourself back to your current (earned) station but... that's not how homelessness works, buddy.
Hence why they just assume that because they confer a special degree of importance to their little social media comments then therefore so would Xi Jinping and Putin, obviously.
It's this feigned sort of overextended empathy which is ultimately chauvinistic in nature that ends up becoming a parody of itself.
Edit: One essay that really shines a light on this attitude is To Hell With Good Intentions written by the anarchist Ivan Illich who delivered this speech at the dawn of the era of voluntourism.
Libs just think that voluntourism is inherently beneficial and that they can just go somewhere and deliver a better way of living to the poor, backwards masses in underdeveloped/overexploited countries because their way of doing things is inherently superior and all that shit without a moment's consideration for what it means to be on the receiving end of voluntourism because "if my intentions for voluntourism are good and beneficial then the recipients will obviously receive this gratefully because they will also consider it to be good and beneficial" (except that's giving too much credit because I don't think people even go so far as to entertain the consideration for what recipients of voluntourists might possibly think, it's just dogmatically assumed that voluntourism = good. No question!)
Meanwhile there's troubling reports that there are "orphanages" running in the developing world which are actually engaging in rampant child trafficking in order to lure in voluntourism bucks by promising life changing experiences™ and doing good for the world™ etc. by letting westerners spend a couple of weeks teaching the trafficked kids how to say a few english words and shit like that...
Pardon me while I go to my gay closet and put on my gay clothes so I can dress up and pretend to be a gay and post on Hexbear again.
This is your brain on liberal "allyship"; they'll deny your GSRM minority status, strip you of it, and insult you based on it if you dare to disagree with them.
I've legit had massive slapfights with libs and the "I'm very socialist-leaning" crowd over the
Except for the fact that they are using queer representation to vilify those figures. That's kind of a bad thing, no?
Imagine if you depicted Putin or Trump as black and then tried to defend artistic blackface and maligning an oppressed group by claiming "it's totally cool and I'm way progressive because it's only designed to offend Putin and Trump. People who aren't racist wouldn't find the existence of black people offensive!!"
Like, bruh... for real?
You're sitting around with your internet buddies laughing at how disgusting and ridiculous queer Putin or gay Trump images are and you're going to tell me that it isn't casting queerness in a negative light and you're going to demand that I also perform in your mental gymnastics to believe you when you tell me that Putin and Trump are sitting on their hoards of wealth and power, like dragons in a fantasy story, and they're seething while looking in on your little shitposts on the internet? Get real.
This is the part that slays me about social media. The Tic Tac videos where chuds are seething about something and issuing a challenge to a nebulous "y'all"; saying some shit like they're not going to lay down and take their prostate exam. It's the same thing as libs trying to get le epic troll on drumf or Winnie the Pooh. Who the hell do these smooth brains think they're talking to? I'm scared you're right and they believe politics is run though reddit, and world leaders doom scroll all day and that's doing a politic.
I feel like I've been shilling this idea on Hexbear since I signed up but, to rehash it once again:
The terminally-liberal brain is so steeped in this reflexive (as in "a reflex", not as in "turning the concept inwards" - fuck I hate autoantonyms smh) equality that they take their own personal experiences and universalise them, completely whitewashing the fact that there are vastly different people, classes, cultures, worldviews etc.
It's nice to think of everyone as ultimately equal, don't get me wrong, but when that idea gets overextended then it becomes "my (hegemonic) worldview and my experience of and relationship to the world is the same as everyone else's" it becomes toxic because it becomes a barrier to truly understanding something like intergenerational trauma or the effects of serious poverty or even just understanding that some cultures are more communally-minded than individualistic.
This is clearly demonstrated by those r/ABoringDystopia posts of homeless people wearing VR headsets. Bruh, do you not spend time at home on leisure and escapism? Would you not want to engage in escapism if you were homeless? I get that you think you're special and you've done something unique in order to earn your station and that, if you were homeless, you'd pawn that VR headset and use your entrepreneurial spirit to bring yourself back to your current (earned) station but... that's not how homelessness works, buddy.
Hence why they just assume that because they confer a special degree of importance to their little social media comments then therefore so would Xi Jinping and Putin, obviously.
It's this feigned sort of overextended empathy which is ultimately chauvinistic in nature that ends up becoming a parody of itself.
Edit: One essay that really shines a light on this attitude is To Hell With Good Intentions written by the anarchist Ivan Illich who delivered this speech at the dawn of the era of voluntourism.
Libs just think that voluntourism is inherently beneficial and that they can just go somewhere and deliver a better way of living to the poor, backwards masses in underdeveloped/overexploited countries because their way of doing things is inherently superior and all that shit without a moment's consideration for what it means to be on the receiving end of voluntourism because "if my intentions for voluntourism are good and beneficial then the recipients will obviously receive this gratefully because they will also consider it to be good and beneficial" (except that's giving too much credit because I don't think people even go so far as to entertain the consideration for what recipients of voluntourists might possibly think, it's just dogmatically assumed that voluntourism = good. No question!)
Meanwhile there's troubling reports that there are "orphanages" running in the developing world which are actually engaging in rampant child trafficking in order to lure in voluntourism bucks by promising life changing experiences™ and doing good for the world™ etc. by letting westerners spend a couple of weeks teaching the trafficked kids how to say a few english words and shit like that...