This effort for liberals to try to convince decent people to cast a ballot for a genocide-funding cop has made me see some disturbing scratched liberal moments.

One "argument" that liberals abuse the shit out of is that they argue that not voting for Harris is rooted in being a privileged individual who doesn't understand how disgustingly harmful Trump and Project 2025 will be for the underprivileged.

As a transfem, I can sometimes feel like "Schrödinger's trans person" when it comes to libs that try to guilt trip people into voting for Harris for the sake of "protecting marginalized people." I've had people assume, on multiple occasions and on the basis of my race and gender identity alone, that I back Kamala. Sometimes in these instances, I feel hesitant bringing up the truth for the sake of "keeping the peace."

Liberals will hear a trans person make their case for why they support Harris and how they expect her to protect trans rights. Liberals will cheer a person like this on, and they will point to this person to say that those who refuse to vote (D) out of the bare minimum conviction of opposing settler colonialism do not understand how bad marginalized people have it.

However, if I, as a trans person, but not only a trans person, but a black neurodivergent, broke ass transfeminine enby in Florida, affirm that I refuse to vote for Harris, liberals will double down on transphobia and find some way to tie me being trans into some "maleness" that makes me unable to sympathize with the underprivileged. brow

This is so vile that it sounds like a strawman, but let's just say that... when you're interacting with anonymous liberals on social media who don't have to worry about getting their shit knocked out when they say insensitive stuff, you get what you pay for.

Mask-off liberal moments like this actually make me feel a lot more justified than I already am in how distrustful I can be of these awful pieces of shit.

  • sewer_rat_420 [he/him, any]
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    2 months ago

    Libs will tell you only Harris can save trans people, when trans people are having their rights taken away left and right in 25/50 states, while Biden has been in office.

    I fully expect trans rights as well as Kamala's public positions on trans rights to shift rightward after she potentially wins, similarly to the current Biden/Harris position on immigration. Maybe in small ways, like "we can have trans rights, AND we can have integrity in womens sports" and shit like that but it would still be an awful overall shift.

    • Chronicon [they/them]
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      2 months ago

      I fully expect trans rights as well as Kamala's public positions on trans rights to shift rightward after she potentially wins

      Frankly the only way for it to shift right is to go from "no mention" to outright hostility or adopting trumpian positions

      As a fun exercise I went to https://kamalaharris.com/issues/ expanded all the sections and Ctrl-F for "trans"

      The only two results were both fearmongering about "transnational criminal organizations". The only actual mention of trans people implicitly was this:

      As President, she’ll fight to pass the Equality Act to enshrine anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQI+ Americans in health care, housing, education, and more into law.

      which like, no she won't, but it makes good browbeating material for liberals I guess