One of the first interactions I ever had with cth was in the old subreddit. Some guy was being really racist somewhere and I saw a bunch of people pinging him and calling him a dipshit asshole and telling him to post hog. The guy tries to retaliate and ultimately deletes his account. I'm a POC who has been bullied for it before. I found it super heartwarming that there'd be people being so unabashedly on my side. Hell, when they were sure that the board was about to get banned, they talked about how much they wished death upon slaveowners! I felt incredibly accepted - and not in the way a company might try to tokenize you. Legitimately I felt that being part of the gang meant let's fucking go: if I win you win and if you win I win. So no, upon first exposure, I felt that leftist spaces held a handful of universal ideals that I felt very close to. Trans rights are human rights, fuck slave owners, everyone needs a roof & a full belly, and death to America, of course. The rest is either organizing, history lessons, or small talk.
One of the first interactions I ever had with cth was in the old subreddit. Some guy was being really racist somewhere and I saw a bunch of people pinging him and calling him a dipshit asshole and telling him to post hog. The guy tries to retaliate and ultimately deletes his account. I’m a POC who has been bullied for it before. I found it super heartwarming that there’d be people being so unabashedly on my side. Hell, when they were sure that the board was about to get banned, they talked about how much they wished death upon slaveowners! I felt incredibly accepted
This mirrors the reason trans people fall leftwards too. When trans people finally reckon with their internal thoughts, crack their shell and say to themselves that they're trans they then come face to face with the fascists wishing death on them every single day. Their reaction is to seek out people who oppose the fascists. They quickly realise that the centrists don't oppose them, especially if they were one the whole time, a person who really didn't care about it and did nothing to oppose the fascists. So, who do they find that opposes the fascists? The anti-fascists. And this leads them into the left.
Oppressed groups want to hear a completely shameless and honestly faithful opposition to their oppressors. When they receive this they feel the safest and most accepted they ever have and want to be around these people. We should all strive to shamelessly and ruthlessly oppose oppressors, not timidly. Slaveowners should be killed. Terfs should be thrown in the sea. Racists belong in Siberia. Colonialists should be shot into the sun. Return indigenous land.
One of the first interactions I ever had with cth was in the old subreddit. Some guy was being really racist somewhere and I saw a bunch of people pinging him and calling him a dipshit asshole and telling him to post hog. The guy tries to retaliate and ultimately deletes his account. I'm a POC who has been bullied for it before. I found it super heartwarming that there'd be people being so unabashedly on my side. Hell, when they were sure that the board was about to get banned, they talked about how much they wished death upon slaveowners! I felt incredibly accepted - and not in the way a company might try to tokenize you. Legitimately I felt that being part of the gang meant let's fucking go: if I win you win and if you win I win. So no, upon first exposure, I felt that leftist spaces held a handful of universal ideals that I felt very close to. Trans rights are human rights, fuck slave owners, everyone needs a roof & a full belly, and death to America, of course. The rest is either organizing, history lessons, or small talk.
This mirrors the reason trans people fall leftwards too. When trans people finally reckon with their internal thoughts, crack their shell and say to themselves that they're trans they then come face to face with the fascists wishing death on them every single day. Their reaction is to seek out people who oppose the fascists. They quickly realise that the centrists don't oppose them, especially if they were one the whole time, a person who really didn't care about it and did nothing to oppose the fascists. So, who do they find that opposes the fascists? The anti-fascists. And this leads them into the left.
Oppressed groups want to hear a completely shameless and honestly faithful opposition to their oppressors. When they receive this they feel the safest and most accepted they ever have and want to be around these people. We should all strive to shamelessly and ruthlessly oppose oppressors, not timidly. Slaveowners should be killed. Terfs should be thrown in the sea. Racists belong in Siberia. Colonialists should be shot into the sun. Return indigenous land.
Terf is a slur meant to silence you? Damn, I wish it worked. Shut the fuck up!
This reads like an MTC auto reply. I love it.
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