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capri0mni(inspired by hearing clips of the July 31st, 2019 Democratic Debate – the one with Joe Biden – on the topic of South American refugees):
Did the intensification of TERF rhetoric around who “really” belongs in the LGBTQ community, and who’s “sneaking in, and taking up resources”* coincide with Trump’s anti-immigrant fearmongering during his election campaign, and subsequent residency in the White House?
‘Cause that would make a certain kind of sense if it did. It's basically the same rhetoric.
(I joined Tumblr in March of 2016, which I think [?] was right before the "Ace discourse" exploded... I wasn't around long enough before that to know what the Ace side of Tumblr was like before the current Age of Discourse, but that's the impression I get from reading the posts of people who were there.)
This connection occurred to me, because I had the same thoughts in reaction to the soundbites about our borders, as something I wrote on Tumblr in a general response to exclusionists (no one in particular, just their general arguments):
Did the intensification of TERF rhetoric around who “really” belongs in the LGBTQ community, and who’s “sneaking in, and taking up resources”* coincide with Trump’s anti-immigrant fearmongering during his election campaign, and subsequent residency in the White House?
‘Cause that would make a certain kind of sense if it did. It's basically the same rhetoric.
(I joined Tumblr in March of 2016, which I think [?] was right before the "Ace discourse" exploded... I wasn't around long enough before that to know what the Ace side of Tumblr was like before the current Age of Discourse, but that's the impression I get from reading the posts of people who were there.)
This connection occurred to me, because I had the same thoughts in reaction to the soundbites about our borders, as something I wrote on Tumblr in a general response to exclusionists (no one in particular, just their general arguments):
If you cross paths with someone who tries to tell you that some people don’t belong in the LGBTQ Community, because they’ll “waste resources meant for the truly oppressed,” then Darling, Sugarlump, my shiny little Periwinkle, I have something to tell you:
The People Are the Resources!
