Someone will say "as a queer person in the heart of empire, my life is in danger every day" and you'll find out they're a developer for Amazon and live in San Francisco or Seattle or some shit, and then you'll meet a trans girl from Alva, OK who's like "Yeah, things are pretty good. AutoZone moved me to full-time."
Someone in a queer group in my current blue city said that they didn't like expressions of solidarity because it "diluted their oppression".
That last part. THAT LAST PART.
That's EXACTLY what I'm seeing from so many people and why I barely check my dash right now. This idea that solidarity with people who don't have your exact experiences somehow "dilutes your oppression".
Even if it did—even if that was a sensible thing to say!—what victories do you think you're going to win based on the awfulness of your oppression? Do you still think your actual ideological enemies care about your suffering? Do you still think you can stir their hearts by protesting that it hurts, that it's bad? They know! They know it hurts! Wallowing in it doesn't empower you!
The only way we're defeating them is by getting as many people as possible to act together. And we can only do that by going, "You and I, we may not be the same, but I see your pain and I see that it is caused by the same enemy that caused mine. Will you stand and fight with me?"

















