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A small compilation of posts from the latest trans twitter discourse. I haven't bothered to screenshot all of the most viral tweets, but also I think it's important to include a lot of the smart ass replies to really help you simulate just how many people are going under black posts and asking "well, what even is racism really?" And if you'd like to know, one of the largest black trans women on twitter was harassed off of the site. No she did not do anything in particular, just posted an image of a sign she didn't make herself that claimed white trans people oppress black trans people (referring to I believe the silencing of a black trans woman who was slated to speak at the protest but was kicked off last minute. @/septembersister, If that's accurate.)

I don't think it ended up in the screenshot but the scenario of the trans bipoc sex worker they were called sex pests in a reply. Victryena was harassed into deactivating.

I think posters who are attempting to swing back on this conversation claiming this is an organized attack against trans women and fems are willfully ignorant. The sign does not name transfems. The sign is in defense of a trans woman. The vast majority of people making this about trans women are trans women posting racist bullshit. It's not my fault they are trans women. My go to search has been 'white trans' as well as off of my feed. Klansmascs and klansgender nonbinaries are also a plague on our spaces that keep us from community or action, but to dismiss this behavior as a psyop is to engage in apologia for racist communities and erasure of transmisogynoir.

Racism is a "personal grievance". Racism is a "niche cultural issue." Racism takes up all the air in the room and addressing it is hampering REAL action. Antiracism is "liberalism".

The most disgusting idea I have seen thrown at Vic, who is an asian trans woman, is that she is weaponizing racism or the struggles of TWOC/TPOC. Absurd as an idea of that is it makes me furious that we as a community continue to use the statistics of violence, sexual assault, and murders of black trans women to push for trans rights but when black trans women attempt to discuss racism they face backlash like this. We have tokenized the idea of the black trans woman as a silent victim, the emblem of transmisogynistic abuse, and continue to deny her her struggles lest she be masculinized and deemed an oppressive force herself.

Victry's racial identity is also important. As an asian woman and due to the racist misogynistic associations we, largely as American and Europeans, fetishize the 'natural femininity' of Asians. Her dysphoria is invalidated, she has had an 'easy transition', her sex work is weaponized as equivalent to racial violence. For those who haven't followed along, she returned to twitter with an eloquent statement I will add here.

I think its also important to notice how many of these creeds attempt to call on ones marxist values and position TPOC and POC as welding imaginary economic power over white victims. Sex work is continually used as a bludgeon (perverted sexually deviant TWOC are whining when they reap monetary gain vs white trans women as the victims of sexual violence forced to participate in survival sex work are being looked down upon by rich TWOC who never have to experience sexual violence to benefit)

For every singular person rolling their eyes and proclaiming their oppression has tuned them into the concept of suffering, that their experiences make them the true savior of the oppressed masses who doesn't NEED to ever listen to another group, theres 10 more replies 'just wondering' why we 'even bother to see color', or if antiracist action was CIA funded to erode leftist unity, and all of them are trying to make this exclusively about trans women. It's insane.

A couple more to close this out.

Racism is trivial. What even IS race? These rich blacks are speaking over fragile abused white trannies. Racism is a niche issue, you're distracting from actual problems. Calling organizations racist is too aggressive, you can't speak here. You're being inflammatory. You're not showing enough nuance. How was I supposed to know theres a victim when all your political slogans are so mean and violent? Discussions of race is a CIA psyop meant to dissolve the left. I'm angry you called me white and this is YOUR fault. Calling me racist is the justifying transphobic violence. You're equating me to a police officer murdering black people right now! YOU support trans peoples deaths because of the color of their skin! I'm not racist! YOU'RE racist for noticing race!

it’s all “kill all fascists” until someone asks for actual antiracist action. its all “punch nazis” until a Black woman says racists should not be made to feel comfortable in their racism

(and by saying this i’m not saying You were saying Punch Racists, i’m pointing out how insane it is that people talk so much game about being antiracist and are still deeply concerned with white people who “don’t know they’re being racist” or whatever)

Yeah 😅 I don't quite understand it myself.

This year has been the year of me realizing that things like

"racists shouldn't be comfortable being racist"

"saying the n word is not funny nor acceptable no matter what"

"hanging with white supremacists makes you complicit with their white supremacy", and

"no amount of being queer cancels out being racist"

are all apparently things that are just... Too hard to grasp?

And it's really wild because it exposes who thinks they're the ones being pointed out. Because I've never in my life felt the need to defend someone's right to be racist to someone else. Like... Who are y'all fighting for? Who is this imaginary other group that Needs To Be Protected, so badly, that racism just Has To Happen? That it just Can't Be Responded To? And why do y'all always think that We have to be the sacrifice for that?

Oh wow what a cute farming simulator! I’m going to download all sorts of aesthetic mods and expansions and live my best cottage core life 🩷

CALMING??? NO! I MUST GET PERFECTION BY THE END OF YEAR 1, OPTIMISATION TO THE MAX!!!!!!!!

I’m going to snoop in everyone’s rooms for all the drama then throw rocks at the mayor for fun :)

Every single person has the power to make a meaningful impact on the planet. I had the most fireflies in my town this summer simply because I have a large area where the grass is never cut.

*checks notes*

...the heir to a cult who is trying to unlearn all of the cult things, a fairy who may or not have been owned by someone at some point but most pressingly has a fair bit of anger issues, the undead scion to one of the sundered houses who has a more than a little messed up perception of right and wrong, a literal demon who is supposed to be a full adult but has the life experience of a baby which brings her down to at least an 18 yo girl, the guy what watched his dad die that now has rage issues and wayyy too many weapons, the guy that grew up in a war and has issues with autonomy and authority, and their actual kids ofc.

Thankfully, they have their extended family of Aunt Goth, Uncle Goth in Red, Uncle That Has A Nice Dog, Aunt Will Make You Do Your Homework And Will Correct It In Front Of You, and Uncle Cat