Black women created say her name because media undermined showing Black women victims despite being one of the most victimized in police brutality. What you are doing is the equivalent of saying βI canβt breatheβ to protest against wearing masks, knowing thatβs what we were putting out during the BLM George Floyd protests. You are aware of the pain and trauma we went though to bring attention to say her name and make it recognized, only for white people to take it. What happened to Brianna is devastating but black trans girls donβt get half of this attention, which is also why we say say her name
Fuck you, actually.
Look, it is very obvious where you are getting your talking points, which means you are a deeply unserious person with no actual commitment to effective anti-racist politics, and therefore I don't need to take you seriously. You are an utterly marginal weirdo with zero organising experience. You are in this game because you enjoy online harassment and for no higher reason.
The equivalence you attempt to draw is fucking asinine, by the way, because you are totally ignoring the political character of both your examples. The problem with right-wing chuds chanting "I can't breathe" at an anti-lockdown protest is the fact that they are right-wing chuds holding an anti-lockdown protest. Were you out there, drumming up mobs to harass those guys online? Of course you weren't, because they don't give a shit what you think of them and they pose an actual threat of violence to you.
Instead, you focus on left-wing people, particularly marginalized people against whom you can effectively wield your social capital. You're perfectly happy to attack an immigrant trans woman, because you might be able to deprive her of whatever platform she has, therefore creating the illusion of worth in your pitiful soul.
Articulate for me, concretely, what harm people chanting "say her name" at a vigil for a murdered white trans girl does to black women. You can't. All you can do is make these saccharine appeals to "pain and trauma." You gesture at real problems, like black women being marginalized within left-wing political movements, with no attempt to solve them or meaningfully engage with them.
What's your proposal in all of this? How do you intend to police who uses what slogan? Are white people allowed to say "power to the people," or are only black people allowed to say that? Should white people even read books written by black people, or is there too much danger of them "appropriating" something? Was NICRA racist for modeling their civil disobedience on the Civil Rights Movement?
Have you given even a single moment of thought to how you would implement your politics, outside of online woke-scolding? Of course you haven't. The only thing that actually matters to you is the attention economy, and driving clicks to your GoFundMe.
You make me sick.
