Major CW for some truly vile shit including sexual assault threats, enbyphobia, and other generally horrific reactionary seething from a supposed socialist.
I dared to mildly criticize Chapo in the most recent /r/bwf comments for purposefully misgendering Ezra Miller and my notifs have been filled with some pretty remarkable stuff for the past 2 days. The worst of it came from this supposed trans sex worker. I’ve blocked my own username for privacy. For context, I am also trans and mentioned that I have done fs sex work.
I've used this as an argument to get people to check themselves before they intentionally misgender shitty trans people but it would not surprise me if some of them genuinely think it's okay to slur other minorities when someone is a terrible person
It’s literally a common phrase I heard in my shitty rural hometown growing up. “There’s a difference between a black person and a n*****.” The implication being black people are only allowed to exist if they assimilate into white culture and also never break any laws or social norms or do literally anything to draw attention to their existence.
There was a whole Chris Rock stand-up routine around it. Chappelle and Key&Peele have echoes the sentiment more recently. One reason why 80s/90s comedy and its consequences resulted in such reactionary trash.
The lesson of the era was that you could just reframe bigotry as immorality or criminality and make it ok, again. So the white working poor became White Trash, unemployed black people were re-christened n-words, migrants who couldn't speak English were labeled a host of slurs, anyone without a college education and a white collar job was de-humanized, teenagers were de-humanized, the LGBT community was de-humanized...
At its worst, it doesn't matter if you do adhere to all the social norms. You're just disguising yourself so you can stab the Righteous People in the back as soon as their guard is down. So everyone always has to constantly be on the look out for people overstepping their caste.