Post AzbLrS7pQfOUGdJRLc by me@jaehanley.social
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 (DIR) Post #AzbLrQqQBtsMIMA1Zo by me@jaehanley.social
       2025-10-25T04:48:10Z
       
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       Trans life is so precariously tied to government that all it takes is one bad election to make life inhospitable. I’m in NJ, there’s a governor’s race. Depending who wins, I might have to move. It’s a level of stress that other kinds of people don’t experience to the same degree. Not yet anyway.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzbLrS7pQfOUGdJRLc by me@jaehanley.social
       2025-10-25T04:48:10Z
       
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       It’s not really surprising then that a lot of trans people get preoccupied with the form that government takes. I think there’s this idea that a liberal or leftist government of some sort, either a reformation of our current system, or a new one, like communism would solve these issues.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzbLrTLKtvnE2odk2a by me@jaehanley.social
       2025-10-25T04:48:10Z
       
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       But government reflects the ideologies and cultures of the people who enable it. I think there’s this white leftist blind spot of one big idea that covers all issues. That racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia ultimately leads back to classism and by extension capitalism. Defeat that, defeat all.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzbLrUUEeKVPahoMYC by me@jaehanley.social
       2025-10-25T04:48:10Z
       
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       But as a black person, I’m not so enamored with this concept since I have to experience how deep, how base something like racism is. Like, babies display outgroup prejudices, kids discriminate on sex and race at three. There’s no Elon Musk that made them that way, they just are.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzbLrVkvvjSNWmdDDU by me@jaehanley.social
       2025-10-25T04:48:10Z
       
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       So no change in system, in of itself, would lead to the eradication of prejudice. It would just change the means of which power is conferred and distributed. And without actual cultural change, there is no guarantee of any directional change in policy. You could get something worse.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzbLrbqpGjjeQnR0Ea by me@jaehanley.social
       2025-10-25T04:48:11Z
       
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       So to spring some hope of the eradication of transphobia via communist revolution? No, not on its own, not even the first step or the one you should waste effort investing in. Not when there are material things we can do now. Not when we can do these things would depending on government.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzbLriEnWWTYEshEQq by me@jaehanley.social
       2025-10-25T04:48:11Z
       
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       Because where I stand now, I’m one bad election from having to move. And if that happens, it’s because the people of my state willed it so. So I cannot hang my hopes and future on the collective will of people who would so carelessly toss it aside or disregard its importance.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzbLsWdg8I5SYWio9g by amerika@annihilation.social
       2025-10-26T12:50:16.778468Z
       
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       @me Correct, which is why diversity is paradoxical. It will always be oppressive to some group.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzbM95z8U6TaoTewgS by Zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith
       2025-10-26T12:52:57.473028Z
       
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       @me >nigger trannyAmazing, now if you also turn out to be a kike you'll complete the set of undesirability.