Performatively pretending to support movements against oppression is just no longer, in any way, less frustrating than the conservative tendency to just outright support oppression, and that’s all liberals do.

Obviously, conservatives are evil and huge pieces of shit, but I’m at a point in my online presence where I just expect the most brainlet shit from them.

Libs, on the other hand, are just in an indefinite cycle of spouting bad takes that enable oppression, but due to ignorance, they think they’re actively helping fight against it.

As a trans person of color, bigotry from conservatives is phasing me much less nowadays, but racism and transphobia from libs now seems significantly more abhorrent.

Don’t expect me to explain the psychology behind it. This is just how it be like sometimes.

  • @ShyferEnglish
    10•4 months ago

    I’ve heard right-wing people say the same about socialists and communists, though. Especially ones with family from communist areas, like Cuba, or the former Soviet block will say, “socialists think it will be good but they’ve never been there to know how bad it is.” If you bring up sanctions or something, they’ll just say you’re diminishing their family’s lived experience. Some conservative Americans will say the same thing if some European criticizes them for not having universal healthcare. “Sure it works over there, but not over here where there’s too much diversity. You just don’t know our local experience”, blah blah blah. Just saying, it’s easy language to co-opt and people don’t always know what’s good for them lol.