This is agitprop intended to divide. Don’t be a sucker. Cis people didn’t start pride month, and have never been excluded from it. All the queer people who are out at your local pride parade don’t care about your shallow cynicism, and are more than happy to embrace and celebrate their humanity with anyone and everyone. That’s the fucking point.
This is more of a commentary on how liberals etc. are happy to raise a pride flag on government buildings in June, but otherwise fail to be a real support.
I would argue that support is support. The most common failure of the revolutionary is to demand some ridiculous action threshold which does nothing but whittle down the base and isolate vulnerable individuals.
There are plenty of people in this world who have no support besides those who are not prepared to take radical action, or who simply do not know how to do anything besides symbolic activism. Don’t remove their support. If you want to help them push their comfort zone then offer real constructive input instead of this cynical slop.
I’m not trying to flame you but I hope you can acknowledge that those corporate false-friends did not make this meme (presumably) and thus didn’t have to get smuggled into the “cis allies” group. Even if you didn’t make this yourself, your posting of it amplifies its message.
Those fake “allies” could have been labeled anything else but, by their inclusion, have been used to cheapen the actual support given by true, well-meaning allies.
This is agitprop intended to divide. Don’t be a sucker. Cis people didn’t start pride month, and have never been excluded from it. All the queer people who are out at your local pride parade don’t care about your shallow cynicism, and are more than happy to embrace and celebrate their humanity with anyone and everyone. That’s the fucking point.
This is more of a commentary on how liberals etc. are happy to raise a pride flag on government buildings in June, but otherwise fail to be a real support.
I would argue that support is support. The most common failure of the revolutionary is to demand some ridiculous action threshold which does nothing but whittle down the base and isolate vulnerable individuals.
There are plenty of people in this world who have no support besides those who are not prepared to take radical action, or who simply do not know how to do anything besides symbolic activism. Don’t remove their support. If you want to help them push their comfort zone then offer real constructive input instead of this cynical slop.
I support trans people!
-except when they are attacked in bathrooms
-except when they are being arrested
-except when I’m not attracted to them
-except when they are homeless
-except when they are poor
-except when it comes to passing policy
-except when they are children
-except when they aren’t profitable
That’s liberal love, and if you don’t like it you’re a bigot! >:c
And you would sincerely call those people “allies”?
They certainly think of themselves as such.
I’m not trying to flame you but I hope you can acknowledge that those corporate false-friends did not make this meme (presumably) and thus didn’t have to get smuggled into the “cis allies” group. Even if you didn’t make this yourself, your posting of it amplifies its message.
Those fake “allies” could have been labeled anything else but, by their inclusion, have been used to cheapen the actual support given by true, well-meaning allies.