chapotraphouse

I fully relate even though i'm white. I listen to my PoC and immigrant friends, and i know how whiteys talk when nobody listens, and it's just gross to see what's going on once you start to question all the racism that's normalized. I obviously lack the direct experience of being at the business end of racialized opression, but as a trans person, i also see way too much performative support falter once it causes the tiniest bit of controversy to be on my side, and as a woman i've seen way too often how even hardcore leftist orgs let misogyny fly, including protection for people who've committed SV and turning them into "missing stairs" that keep endangering people in that community because nobody removes them from their position. Wouldn't bring that up in a conversation about race normally, i'm not doing this to center my experience here, not equating anything either, just saying that there's paralells that make me distrustful of certain lib and leftist people as well.

There's a fine line between caution and paranoia, ofc, i find that it takes a toll on you when you don't check in on yourself once in a while and question your MO, but at its core it's a necessary survival strategy to watch out who you can trust.