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Blahaj admin defending a blatant transphobe (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by DroneRights@lemm.ee to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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[-] Tastysnack@hexbear.net 113 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wish I could speak to another trans femme without them bringing up and gushing over fucking contrapoints, philosophy tube or some other LIB breadtuber.

That instance feels like it's full of those types who talk down to you about their paper thin understanding of politics and social justice because "CONTRAPOINTS SAID SO!" or fucking Philosophy Tube ergghhhhhhh doomjak and if you have a take left of starmer they scream authoritarian.

Gunna go in for a hard read now on blahaj.zone so bare with me.

BEING A MINORITY DOESN'T MAKE YOU A DECENT PERSON OR MAKE YOU MAGICALLY UNDERSTAND SOCIAL JUSTICE. LOG OFF AND READ A BOOK!

I don't hate philosophy tube etc to be clear, I just find their videos to be self indulgent slop and her fan base to consistently be insufferable privileged and chauvinistic liberal white trans femmes that usually speak for others (themselves, they ignore anyone else trans) and are kinda problematic vs recognising there's a thousands more of us who don't earn dollar doing software dev and that our needs and material conditions are just as important as their own.

[-] epicspongee@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

I don't hate philosophy tube etc to be clear, I just find their videos to be self indulgent slop

I don't disagree, but I think she and contra hold a special place in my heart cause they were really the start to my radicalization. Contra's earlier videos really got me thinking outside of a capitalist mindset and got me to think "oh, there's alternatives to capitalism, and gender, and blah blah blah", then I read the manifesto, then I started listening to Teach Me Communism, and then I became a chronically online tankie lol. I feel like I'm not the onlyyyy one that did this (I have friends who I think consider themselves socialist and anticapitalist who still like some of Contra's newer stuff), but I definitely feel like the vast majority of her fanbase is annoyingly liberal to a fault. In her recent 'anti-JK Rowling' lane she's been pretty decent I think except for when she steps even slightly out of it.

[-] Tastysnack@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah and that's great! meow-hug I dunno breadtube always annoyed me and most of the insufferable soc dem libs I know swear by it so I'm probably injecting a lot of bias into this in hindsight but...