From a bazinga-rich family member, the kind that likes to dangle money at the poors by making them try to jump through hoops and otherwise kiss his ass, and otherwise pretend to be a "philanthropist" while not actually giving any actual money to the poors:
"I hate how game companies pander to lazy people with shit hardware! I have a cutting edge battlestation in my man cave and almost no game comes close to using its full potential!" :wojak-nooo:
Paraphrased: 'Being trans-inclusive might alienate a reactionary white middle-aged cis woman demographic so we're gonna be casually transphobic with our socialist messaging.' (ah yes, the classic base of socialism)
Luckily I'm not in that party but hoo boy
Also luckily: they changed their minds a day after that conversation lol.
Oh no what if the chuds hate the organization that they already hate? Surely diet bigotry will win over the bigots loyal to bigotry classic! :liberalism:
Their calculus was literally that trans people are a "small minority" so it's dumb to prioritize trans inclusion over casually transphobic middle aged white women.
This is the level of critical thinking present at the heigts of certain US socialist parties. It's very depressing when you realize how shallow our pool of critical analysis and solidarity is. I mean, if you're not gonna put in the effort to really vet your ideas, at least err on the side of solidarity, right?
Not that long ago, a wrecker on this side, chanting "organize or die," made it quite clear account after ban-evading account that they didn't want trans people (or what they summarized as "the mentally ill") included in that grandiose organization.
The wrecker had the charisma of wet dog shit, of course.
:surprised-pika:
When they drop the socialism and not the transphobia
Contrary to popular belief, gatekeeping is cool and good and we should do it more.