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In The Wretched of the Earth, Fanon is scathing in his criticisms of the national bourgeois. They are capitalists that form part of the usually previously colonised population. They serve as intermediaries/subsidiaries to the imperial core.

For example, the global owner of McDonald’s is Richard Kempczinski (USA), but the previous franchise operator of all South African locations was our current president, Cyril Ramaphosa. He resigned as owner before his stint as president, but this illustrates that the national bourgeois and national government overlap.

Fanon describes this national bourgeoisie as a class uninterested in the development of their own country, instead placing their securities in western markets and spending their weekends in luxurious European capitals.

For Fanon, the national bourgeois are a greedy caste, get-rich-quick, content to accept dividends from the old colonial power, and incapable of inventiveness. They are 'not even the replica of Europe, but its caricature', and they conceal their mediocrity with cars and holidays on the Riviera.

The bourgeois across the world shares interests, but those of the imperial core are slightly different to those of the periphery. For a wholistic understanding of imperialism and neocolonialism, you must understand the relationship between capitalists of the first and third world.

(Edit: since this post garnered so much attention, I wanted to link my subsequent post regarding the core-periphery model. Neither are exhaustive, but this Fanon post does not fully explain the concept I wanted to convey)

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They banned trans women, trans girls, and nonbinary TMA people. They did NOT ban ALL trans athletes. Being specific about who is harmed is 100% necessary to actually undo harm.

It is DAMN important to name the transmisogyny, just as much as it is to name the transphobia. It is directly against the foundation of intersectionality to try to flatten two separate intersecting oppressions into one.

Please read all the replies before spreading the same misinformation that has already been debunked.

It is not true that trans men/mascs are “excluded by default.”

As already said in a reply below, “Trans men on T can compete if they get a Therapeutic Use Exemption as outlined by the World Anti-Doping Agency. Trans women are being specifically and explicitly banned by law,” and therefore DO NOT have access to ANY exemptions that trans men have access to.

Here is a link that outlines it, also grabbed from the comments below.

https://www.wada-ama.org/sites/default/files/2023-12/tue_physician_guidelines_transgender_athletes_-_version_2.1_-_october_2023.pdf

Also, they specifically did not ban trans men so that they could claim the ban was not transphobic in nature.

If you cannot accept these basic facts, i cannot believe you are bringing anything up in good faith.