I'm too afraid to ask this question that's exactly what :reddit-logo: asks every single fucking second over and over again
Also, assuming that reddit is a propaganda arm of liberal institutions, I have to wonder why it's so rabidly transphobic. I mean, companies and the establishment love to say that they support LGBTQ folks, but we all know that it's just surface-level garbage, so... why doesn't this same trend of surface-level discourse extend to the most basic platform? Why must they let this sort of vile content bubble up to the surface?
I have this notion that the main thing here is that they're trying to figure out what is more useful to liberal interests: is the empty advocacy of trans rights more useful to liberals as a way to pretend to be virtuous and on the right side of history, or is it more useful to keep transphobic discourse as a tool, a convenient way to galvanize shitty people into ignoring what is truly wrong in society, as a distraction?
How can we have turbo chuds who are vehemently transphobic and at the same also have that thing that was posted here recently, that REI anti-union podcast where they start off with their pronouns and acknowledging that they're on stolen Native land? Both of them ultimately serve the same interests, and yet are on a surface level completely different.
I don't know, I just feel like modern liberals can't make up their minds if they'd rather maintain a façade of acceptance or just use transphobia and other garbage discourse as a way to make people fall in line, so they try to have it both ways and claim that it's "freedom of speech". Sorry if I'm not making sense or if I'm being a dumbass, I'm just trying to understand what's going on with ideology. It's hard to wrap my head around so much discourse.
i think corporate "trans rights" signalling is even more surface level than other kinds of corporate wokeness because while e.g. corporate antiracism seeks to capture the spending power of nonwhite consumers, trans people aren't a large enough demographic to be a worthwhile market by themselves, so the marketing effort is actually directed at liberal allies who might feel a bleeding heart affinity for trans people, but don't have much of an idea of what trans liberation would mean.
It's meant to appeal to that type of cis person that claims they really care about trans people and will put pronouns in their bio, but would never actually date a trans person.
Also, assuming that reddit is a propaganda arm of liberal institutions, I have to wonder why it's so rabidly transphobic. I mean, companies and the establishment love to say that they support LGBTQ folks, but we all know that it's just surface-level garbage, so... why doesn't this same trend of surface-level discourse extend to the most basic platform? Why must they let this sort of vile content bubble up to the surface?
I have this notion that the main thing here is that they're trying to figure out what is more useful to liberal interests: is the empty advocacy of trans rights more useful to liberals as a way to pretend to be virtuous and on the right side of history, or is it more useful to keep transphobic discourse as a tool, a convenient way to galvanize shitty people into ignoring what is truly wrong in society, as a distraction?
How can we have turbo chuds who are vehemently transphobic and at the same also have that thing that was posted here recently, that REI anti-union podcast where they start off with their pronouns and acknowledging that they're on stolen Native land? Both of them ultimately serve the same interests, and yet are on a surface level completely different.
I don't know, I just feel like modern liberals can't make up their minds if they'd rather maintain a façade of acceptance or just use transphobia and other garbage discourse as a way to make people fall in line, so they try to have it both ways and claim that it's "freedom of speech". Sorry if I'm not making sense or if I'm being a dumbass, I'm just trying to understand what's going on with ideology. It's hard to wrap my head around so much discourse.
Redditors of Reddit, how do you feel about this thing none of us have shut up about for six months and all have the exact same opinion on?
i think corporate "trans rights" signalling is even more surface level than other kinds of corporate wokeness because while e.g. corporate antiracism seeks to capture the spending power of nonwhite consumers, trans people aren't a large enough demographic to be a worthwhile market by themselves, so the marketing effort is actually directed at liberal allies who might feel a bleeding heart affinity for trans people, but don't have much of an idea of what trans liberation would mean.
It's meant to appeal to that type of cis person that claims they really care about trans people and will put pronouns in their bio, but would never actually date a trans person.
True, and besides that, from a labor perspective, I also feel like people who are already oppressed on a daily basis are easier to exploit.
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