Diaspora communities participate in this via something of an international 'honor culture'. Many assiduously champion their homeland cultures without knowing what it's like to actually grow up in it. No, my culture is very progressive and modern and not at all "backwards", white man! How dare you!

Close those 100+ tabs, girl 🙂‍↕️

One thing about the "transsexual" discourse that cyclically sweeps through queer Bsky circles:

For some reason, every time we argue here about the relation of transition to trans identity, people forget that "transition is regressive and binary" is a legitimately held position by a lot of queers.

"You are only pretending to care about Gaza and Gaza GoFundMes for internet points" was yuuuuuge on GenocideSky for a time back then. People blocked people and ended friendships over this shit!

People want identity shortcuts for "who is worth listening to" and "which ideas are correct" and I implore you all to abandon that impulse, because that's not the world we live in.

Listen to the marginalized because our voices are erased, but also... think. Judge by word and deed.

The way Westerners discuss conservatism and oppressed people in non-Western cultures is so utterly, irreparably broken.

I did not say "white", by the way. I'd have said "white" if I meant "white".