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this is just what i think, but it might be, that someone who questions gender identity, might also question capitalsim instead of just accepting the rethorics…
anything that forces you to question the status quo will prod you into questioning other things.
for me, it’s being queer; brown; and on the spectrum, which are all things that get you frequent rejection from almost all status-quo-loving groups of people.
Capital is built upon the foundation of strictly enforced gender roles, men enfocring monogamy so they could be sure who their sons were, to consolidate wealth in their family
read the Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, or there’s a shorter section about it in Transgender Warriors
wow prole wiki was the 4th result when I searched for this book
There’s probably some overlap where people capable of accepting themselves as transgender instead of denying it are more ready to deny tradition in general
Once I’d already rejected my assigned gender I had an intellectual freedom few around me did. I was helped by having psychonaut friends who were also headed hard progressive labor-left but when everything could be questioned and the cruelty inherent to enforcement of the system was clearly visible it wasn’t hard to notice that infinite growth didn’t sound realistic
Do right-wingers lament the lack of trans people on the right?
Chasers unfortunately exist.
No. As a rule basically anything you see here that the right is “panicking” about is a nothing burger to them.
It’s the same with their news feed, they get articles about how the left is “panicking” over shit nobody actually cares about.
More and more were hating fictionalized versions of each other and the ensuing culture war gives the 1% room to pave over our rights.
We’re to the point now where the “wft I love/hate X now” meme isn’t a joke. The culture war is fully driving people’s values, not ideology.
This is the main reason why people vote for trump, they want to win the culture war and don’t give a fuck about ideology.
Next time you see a headline or article ask yourself if you actually give a shit or if you’re being told to give a shit. You’ll be surprised how often it’s the latter.
95% of the memes here (like this one) here are just strawmen for culture war fodder.
I need to remember that more often.
It’s easy to forget but paramount to remember that nobody is immune to propaganda.
Indeed
No but people do ask why so many trans people are leftists as opposed to regular ass liberals.
Essentially what Nia Frome answers in The Problem of Recognition in Transitional States, or Sympathy for the Monster.
Struggle informs theory, and theory in turn counsels action. That’s why those at the summits of power do everything that can to ridicule and condemn and censor these ideas.
-Leslie Feinberg
Works by Leslie Feinberg:
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
Transgender Liberation: A Marxist View
That queer theory broadly shares Western Marxist proclivities towards pessimism and theoreticism is exemplified in its treatment of categories such as normativity, the universal, the bodily, the virtual, and science. Trans people’s experience impels us to seek further afield for a theory adequate to our situation, rejecting the chauvinist anticommunism that other leftists take for granted, and discovering underappreciated benefits to “sympathizing with the monster.” From this deparochialized perspective, it makes as little sense for a Marxist-Leninist to be transphobic as it does for a trans person to be anticommunist.
-Nia Frome
The Problem of Recognition in Transitional States, or Sympathy for the Monster
Bonus: My intro Marxist-Leninist reading list
I have to correct you: it’s 41%, please get your memes right
if 40 percent is lol, whats the rest? also why would a maga dude care about a transgirl’s choice in men?
Why are big companies like Google and Microsoft supportive for leftists if leftists in the USA want to destroy capitalism? It’s weird.
Ever heard of ‘rainbow capitalism’?
These companies aren’t supporting the end of capitalism. They subsume and coopt socially progressive movements to better support their own profits. Capital does this with anything, it doesn’t care about what the message or movement is, which is why many companies are tuning back progressive messaging in the current social climate.
They support liberalism, not leftism.
They like making a big deal out of their tokenistic support of LGBT/BIPOC/etc, to distract from them trampling over workers rights.
Man could you imagine if we had Google/MS bucks behind us? Instead it’s like 30 people with $2 between us.
Google and Microsoft do not support the left at all.
Orgs like PSL seem to be doing well!
With all that money against leftists, leftists couldn’t race head to head with the right wing in the USA. So I don’t think they are against you either.
Leftists are not racing head to head with the right wing in the US Empire. The DNC and GOP are both right-wing, leftism is largely found in smaller parties like PSL.
Why do you believe big companies support leftists?
Because they all support diversity, equity, woke etc, which are leftist movements in the USA. They advertise for positions always stating these movements. Why do you think they support the right wing?
They feign social progressivism while affirming right-wing economics, which is the peak of liberalism.
That’s just a surface level analysis. The moment LGBT people started being accepted, not because of people’s benevolence but because of much fighting and struggle to be accepted and recognized, capitalism realized that we could be marketed to, that we were just another profit source, so it started reacting accordingly, that’s why terms like Rainbow Capitalism exists.
You can easily see this every pride month were companies will change their logos to pride themed ones, unless it’s in a country where being LGBT is illegal. We are only a concern as long as we are profitable.
Furthermore it is not that companies are inherently right wing, but rather that they are a part of capitalism which is in itself a right wing system.
Corporations support whichever way the wind is blowing. They don’t care about ethics, they care about money.
For a long time in the western world, diversity was considered good PR, so that’s what they did. It builds up as corporations compete with each other to be the most diverse, the most as you might call it ‘woke’.
Now since the wind in the US is blowing the other way, some western corporations are following suit, some will follow the EU’s lead and keep diversity but at a lower level.
They aren’t. Your question has no valid answer because the assumption it presupposes is false.
