You could argue it shouldn’t have been believed but whether or not McBride was trying to expand the permission structure for pushing back on trans rights isn’t really “having the ‘correct’ politics” unless you’re claiming it’s unfair or cynical for trans people not to be open to that.
Discussion of me being able to call Milo Yiannopoulos homophobic slurs is further down the thread. I don't think McBride is a bad actor, but I don't think there's a categorical issue with calling people perceived to be ones bad names when you're also a part of the group
So, as I understand it, black liberals should be able to publicly call Candace Owens a fucking N-word and pro-Palestinian Jews should be able to call Schumer a k***?
Here the equivalent construction is something like "they will never see you as anything but a [slur], don't fool yourself". It's not my job as a white guy who isn't Jewish to tell them no. It's something for those communities to negotiate
Referring to a trans woman as a slur because you misinterpret her political statements is bad. This is not for rhetorical effect, it is the cynical weaponization of transphobia against a trans woman.
I'm absolutely going to call someone I perceive as helping the GOP a f*ggot when it suits me because I'm a queer guy and I can say that. I disagree with Mia Wong here in light of the recent reporting, but she has every right to feel precarious atm and respond to that honestly
People will tell you it’s “reclaimed” and I kind of believe this, I feel like I’m “allowed” to say the word, but every single person I’ve known who uses the word uses it like this, to put it in the mouths of people who are actually supporting them, and I really, really look askance at that
There's a kind of leftist who knows slurs are bad but believes that means you should be allowed to use them on people you think are bad and someone who is "allowed" to use the slur using it to describe someone they don't like becomes a permission structure for other people who should not to do so
You see this a lot with Asian leftists where they will describe Asians who they do not feel have appropriately radical politics using terms like hanjian and people who are not Asian will use that as a permission structure to do the same to Asians whose politics they don't like
[divination hat on] The slur is obfuscating the problem the ICE account has: they feel the only trans people with an international voice have money and lean conservative. The rest of us are seen as broke trash lefty anime fans and they aren’t putting our asses up there on TV anytime soon.
Like I understand litigating the slur and little else in the message because the world wants us all to become like Caitlyn Jenner or just die and no one here has a panacea against that.
I've always hated the influence far-left people have in the trans community. It's like they view actual social progress as a threat to their control of the community.
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Not nearly as big an issue as when non-group-members do it, but I still think it's a bad idea
She’s still falsely putting it into the mouth of people she dislikes in order to score imaginary internet points.
- “just shut up and call us [slur] already, this is taking forever”
- “me and the [slur]s are going out for [slur] night!!”
incorrect ways to reclaim a slur: whatever the fuck mia is doing
It’s “The [slurs] and *I* are going out for [slur] night!!”