This effort for liberals to try to convince decent people to cast a ballot for a genocide-funding cop has made me see some disturbing scratched liberal moments.
One “argument” that liberals abuse the shit out of is that they argue that not voting for Harris is rooted in being a privileged individual who doesn’t understand how disgustingly harmful Trump and Project 2025 will be for the underprivileged.
As a transfem, I can sometimes feel like “Schrödinger’s trans person” when it comes to libs that try to guilt trip people into voting for Harris for the sake of “protecting marginalized people.” I’ve had people assume, on multiple occasions and on the basis of my race and gender identity alone, that I back Kamala. Sometimes in these instances, I feel hesitant bringing up the truth for the sake of “keeping the peace.”
Liberals will hear a trans person make their case for why they support Harris and how they expect her to protect trans rights. Liberals will cheer a person like this on, and they will point to this person to say that those who refuse to vote (D) out of the bare minimum conviction of opposing settler colonialism do not understand how bad marginalized people have it.
However, if I, as a trans person, but not only a trans person, but a black neurodivergent, broke ass transfeminine enby in Florida, affirm that I refuse to vote for Harris, liberals will double down on transphobia and find some way to tie me being trans into some “maleness” that makes me unable to sympathize with the underprivileged. 
This is so vile that it sounds like a strawman, but let’s just say that… when you’re interacting with anonymous liberals on social media who don’t have to worry about getting their shit knocked out when they say insensitive stuff, you get what you pay for.
Mask-off liberal moments like this actually make me feel a lot more justified than I already am in how distrustful I can be of these awful pieces of shit.
One of my “favorites” I’ve been hit with is “your trans friends will know you don’t really care about them if you don’t vote Democrat”
Motherfucker like half of my trans friends are in PSL and were basically working unpaid second jobs to get Claudia de la Cruz on the ballot
Go, Claudia!
More like: “your trans friends will know you don’t really care about them after they tell you they don’t vote Democrat”
Like with all social minorities, Dem “support” is little more than a thin veneer to support imperialism while still getting to feel like the “good guys”
yeah it was specifically LGBTQ comrades in shared organizing work and study groups that shook me of the last vestiges of my “damage control” liberalism regarding Democrats years ago. It’s very funny (well, not really funny) to watch liberals tokenize LGBTQ people as political bludgeons into voting for Democrats when every politically conscious LGBTQ person I’ve worked and organized with hates the Democrats just as much if not MORE than the Republicans. More because the Democrats use them as this bludgeon which puts them in the line of fire for political points; and also uses them to pinkwash imperialism, which incites reaction against them, which is then used for hostile action and consent-manufactory media stories against imperial targets. The pinkwashers in, and media spectacle behind the Democrat Liberal regime-change and NGO machine fuel anti-LGBTQ prejudices abroad more than anything those domestic LGBTQ people are doing there (usually just living their lives). Pretending to be an ally and in doing so being an even greater enemy. It’s a tale as old as time, with the
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