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angelthingy · 10 months ago

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(this was written AFTER writing the tags, so reading those first might make more sense!)

wrote this on another post somewhere but since i ended up writing an essay in the tags forgetting to mention it i felt i should add that in now

as much as i think it’s important to have empathy to any side in queer discourse, the important thing to me is that the word discourse itself implies that there’s a debate

sometimes. there is not a debate

sometimes. they are just wrong

people saying “aro people aren’t queer” is NOT a debate, they’re just wrong. aro people are queer go away

people excluding trans people from communities isn’t a debate, they’re just wrong and possibly terfs/radfems!

just wanted to clear that up because i generally get kinda anxious whenever i talk extensively about a topic because!! i am not the best at using words to describe my thoughts!! because my thoughts often dont happen in words and instead in concepts which is a lot harder to explain!!!!

all queer discourse could be stopped if we all just remembered that in the eyes of conservative fascists we're all dirty queers polluting their kids minds who need to be eradicated at all costs

#i agree with the sentiment of the post but i’d still say most instead of all #cus like. queer people are a community but not a hivemind #we do still share different opinions about things and it’s still valuable to talk about them #especially since some of that discourse comes from internalised homo/transphobia or being unfamiliar with certain cultures etc.#those can be solves by just educating them instead of reminding them that the opposition hates them #because that doesn’t really. help the issue. at most they know they’re doing SOMETHING wrong but not really knowing. what #the idea that queer people should (/do) share the same opinions on everything is kind of a right wing conspiracy imo #because it’s easier to demonize us if they make us seem like a cult that agrees on everything #like. as much as it sucks knowing that queer people still argue on queer issues #it’s to an extent more unreasonable to assume that they should agree with one another simply because they’re also queer #sorry i know im reading into the post way too much #i just feel like. it’s always important to empathise with people even if you don’t agree with them #even if just to understand them a bit better #as a queer person myself i admit i do feel kinda. surprised when another queer person says something which #in my opinion. is so horribly and obviously wrong #but after my initial shock my first reaction is to kinda. try understand why #i feel like it’d be ignorant of me to assume that i have the ‘correct opinion’ for one #but also if anything i can try sharing my perspective too and. maybe theirs will shift. or maybe mine will! depends #me omw to write an essay in the tags whenever i see a post relating to queerness hdkgudhdjfhd

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