If you're going to imply that my very real, very pressing issues are an excuse and that i am, by proxy, aiding and abetting that then don't be so shocked when i tell you to go do one okay?
My community has been ignored and what you and Mr Zaardner are claiming is that because of the very brief stint in current history where we're actually beginning to get recognition of our problems and grievances that we're somehow subtracting/distracting from the "real issues" (last time i heard getting killed because you are trans is a pretty big ****ing issue) is at best crass and deeply offensive and at worst the same sort of logic used bigots to keep us down.
Your little thoughtless salvo destroyed any attempt at developing a fruitful discussion when you came out with:
"I can't shake the feeling that a lot of minority issues are deliberately fanned up to distract attention from the fact that a handful of people own like half of the world.
Yes, I know, white hetero male privilege speaking. But still..."
Like how the hell would you know? People are dying, people are being killed, people are having their rights, their very lives taken away and you want to sit there, in your little armchair and pontificate about how it's being "fanned up to distract attention from the fact that a handful of people own like half of the world." like give me a goddamn break okay? And then you respond like you're somehow being mistreated because people are taking you to task over your little spiel.
When you face being fired from your job because you are cis, face being denied healthcare because of puritanical bs, when you face being attacked on the basis of who you are, then come back to me because right now all i'm hearing is the priviledged murmurings of a man who has yet to confront the fact that not everything revolves around him, you can either join the line and wait for people to grant you your dignity, humanity and rights, join me in demanding them for all of us or just do what you're doing right now and see how well that goes for you.
Sigh.
I did not say minority issues are a distraction, period. I said that a lot of them are being fanned up to distract.
And I asked you a simple question, which you for some reason totally ignored even though you found time to type a long angry tirade at me.
Yes, getting killed because you are trans is a "pretty ******* big issue". Being fired because you are trans is a big issue. Being denied healthcare more so.
Every one of them would also be criminal or illegal both here and - I think at least? - in US. I doubt you'll find anyone here willing to defend anything like this. I'm not sure who am I to "demand" anything from in that regard?
However, when I think of trans issues as reported in mainstream media, or indeed, debated on CFC, they don't include "people being killed for their sexuality" ... probably because there would not be much to discuss. Everyone agrees it is awful.
They revolve around wokest manner of pronoun use and legislatures debating who is to use which bathroom. This paints the picture of the minority in question as being generally unreasonable, entitled weirdos, who apparently have it so good they don't have any
serious problems left. It
is divisive and seemingly contributes towards the hatred that finds its extreme manifestation in atrocities you mention, as certain less bright people are being led to believe LGBT elites are bent on forcing their ways on everyone else or whatever other nonsense is being fed to them. This kind of agenda-setting does not appear to do the minority in question any favors and I suspect is not entirely their own doing.
That is what I meant by saying "stuff being deliberately fanned up as a distraction". That is also why I asked if you've come to notice/suspect anything like that.
Now, to repeat the obvious, lest you again misunderstand me - yes, sure, discrimination is not solved and done away with simply by making it illegal. Bigotry still exists and needs to be tackled. But neither I nor anyone else can make anyone else like or accept you. Only you can do that by being, well, likeable. There's no risk to your personal safety involved on Internet either.
There are LGBT people both on CFC and IRL who've done more [EDIT: than any public lobby group, demonstration or columnist] to raise my goodwill towards their community simply by being reasonable, polite and well spoken on a range of issues not necessarily having anything to with LGBT at all.
