What inextricable link is that?
White privilege something something JK Rowling something tethered to something.
Yet, as the inequity of capitalism and its inextricable link to white privilege are brought into focus, JK Rowling instead devoted her enormous Twitter platform to discussing the use of gender-neutral terms last Saturday night.
She what? She chose her own subject to talk about at a particular moment? How shocking! Of course so did most people on Twitter, but, you know – any stick to beat a woman with.
The timing of her social media tirade is telling. In the context of a collective reckoning with how our economic, political and social systems have dehumanised black lives for centuries, it seemed the fantasy-writer turned billionaire had decided an equally pressing issue was making grand claims about the estimated 1 per cent of the population who identify as trans.
It wasn’t a tirade. It was a woman saying some things. It’s funny how men always think women are doing most of the talking when in reality they’re doing about 20%. (There are studies on it.) By the same token, if a woman talks at all, it must be a tirade. Women not supposed to talk, ok?
Transphobia is tethered to the malign structures of white supremacy.
No it isn’t. That’s just jargon, and it’s not true. Furthermore, what Rowling is saying is not “transphobia.”
So, as we harness this political moment to dismantle centuries of inherited racism, we also have a duty to understand its relationship with the kind of discourse that is, quite frankly, making life hell for trans people.
Do we? Wouldn’t that be changing the subject? Do genuine anti-racism activists actually want to change the subject that way?
Also, if we must change the subject, what about the subjection of women? What about that discourse? Why are trans people the cool kids who are welcome to usurp anti-racism while women are just transphobes who have to be shut up?
The whole piece is dreck and the Independent should be embarrassed for publishing it.
For all the blathering about racism, it’s a remarkably racist piece. It lumps hundreds–thousands?–of different cultures together. We’re to believe that all indigenous non-white cultures had “third genders” (they didn’t), that those that did all viewed these people in the same way and honored them (they didn’t), and that they all believed that gender is “fluid”, whatever that means.
In other words, until white colonialists came along, all those enlightened Noble Savages believed the same things about sex and gender that Wokey Person writing in The Independent does. Which only goes to show.
(Also these numpties never mention the fact that these magical mystical “third gender” people were most often men, I-mean-Assigned-Male-At-Birth. I’m not aware of any cultures that had a Get Out of Being Woman option, though of course there may have been some. What was that awful famous lady this twerp is responding to saying about erasing women?)
Group A: We’re an oppressed minority who need to fight for our own advancement, and this is our time to—
Group B: We’re a smaller minority than Group A, so they need to center us in their struggle. Now is our time to—
Group C: We’re a smaller minority than Group B, so they need to center us in their struggle. Now is our time to—
and repeat ad infinitum.
Nullius, you forgot to throw in “white” in B and C – the other minority, Group A, is white. No, make that white supremacists.
Women. The oppressor of humanity for millennia. We are so good at oppressing humanity (in the name of whiteness, of course), we managed to convince people for a time that we are the oppressed! Thank goodness for the world there are all these (white) men who like to dress in women’s clothes, got in women’s bathrooms, and play women’s sports. They were able to see through us and will save the world from the scourge of the (white) woman who invented sex with the Industrial Revolution, declared sex binary, and made all the world accept something that so plainly went against reality!
Have I got my wokeese down yet?
I can see this going to the level of individual neurons within the same brain, then synapses. But why stop there when the world of subatomic particles offers further venues for factionalism and partisanship? It’s
turtlesPeople’s Front of Judea/Judean People’s Front all the way down. Splitters!iknklast: That’s chillingly accurate.