me: all exclusionists wrongfully preach that the oppressed group they’re attacking is somehow part of their privileged oppressors.
me: this tactic is not unique to LGBT issues, and is not exclusive to small-scale intracommunity issues, either. some of the worst atrocities in history were justified by spreading lies about how the victims were secretly responsible for all the worlds’ oppression. and it’s disturbing to see oppressed groups attack one another by recreating this in (a comparatively inconsequential) miniature. by saying, for example, that aces were responsible for the shooting in orlando. (x)
me: because the most effective way to attack the oppressed is to paint them to be the “actual” oppressive force, using their fight for rights as “proof” of their “oppressive intentions”. despite all evidence proving otherwise. simply rewrite history to erase past examples of their oppression, and discredit any new evidence that appears. it’s disturbingly easy to do. LGBT groups attempting to demonize and discredit one another is everything our oppressors wish to see of us.
me: and to make matters worse, they usually accuse the oppressed group of being their own oppressors. trans women are accused of being men, aces are accused of being straight, etc.
twerf, acephobe, or biphobe: okay but i’m nothing like those other AWFUL people!
me: ….how so?
twerf, acephobe, or biphobe: because i’m ACTUALLY CORRECT about that oppressed group secretly being my oppressor!! the difference between me and those other bigots is that i’m RIGHT!! my violence against the oppressed is JUSTIFIED, because i like to yell that they AREN’T OPPRESSED, which is something NONE OF THOSE OTHER EXCLUSIONISTS DO!!
me:
Lmao y'all know what post I’m thinking of rn
some of the worst atrocities in history were justified by spreading lies about how the victims were secretly responsible for all the worlds’ oppression.
You know, I thought there was something familiar about oppressed people borrowing the language of the oppressor to attack another oppressed community while the oppressor sits back and laughs, something that made TERFs, acephobes, and biphobes feel particularly necessary to oppose,and this nailed it for me:
Pogroms.
This is exactly the kind of rhetoric that chased my ancestors out of Russia.
Not saying that TERFs or whomever are going to get anywhere near that level, obviously, this isn’t a Godwin, though given the usual level of nuance you find in Tumblr discourse I’m sure I’ll be accused of one anyway. But still, it’s a playbook y’all should really think twice about pulling pages from.
“The oppressed mistaking other oppressed groups for their oppressors” is a pattern I recently picked up on. The rhetoric concerning migrants leading up to brexit fit the pattern. People struggling for jobs find themselves blaming migrants rather than the actual government refusing to support them.
As a jewish person well versed in my people’s history, the use of scapegoating is VERY familiar to me. Good to see I’m not the only one who noticed a trend.
for those who are curious for examples of this scapegoating and slander against asexuals…
here are links to posts interacted with by acephobes, where asexuals are compared to:
and lets not pretend the acephobe movement hasn’t actively encouraged physical violence against those on the ace spectrum. (x)
and for an example of material demonizing and scapegoating aces being delivered through comedy (arguably the most effective means of delivering rhetoric in a way that encourages the viewer to consume and accept it without examining it critically), look no further: (x)
acephobes look to paint aces as acceptable targets against which any form of vitriol can be taken out on.
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