Ok I muted this and it blew up but I want to elaborate about what I meant by this. Obv queer ppl of color have every eighth to compare the intersections of their oppression but way too often I see other white queer ppl getting too comfortable w comparisons - https://twitter.com/dirtyieech/status/1341420461339648005

And kind of seeing the way black people and other poc treat their oppression and trying to emulate it, when they are just not comparable experiences. It is very obvious when they do this and it’s very cringey.

I have problem with it when young white lgbt people organize the community into neat little boxes of who can say which slurs and putting SO much emphasis and importance on it, when throughout history these slurs never functioned that way

It’s also obvious, when these white lgbts are discoursing about slur usage within the community, that they don’t seem to even understand reclamation. It’s not up to others to decide how another reclaims their trauma. And reclamation also doesn’t mean calling other people slurs.

Way too often all this slur discourse nonsense goes as follows 1) bring up the “know your slur” carrd 2) compare bi or nonbinary people to white people and homosexual or binary trans people to black people 3) call other people slurs to taunt them bc you can say it and they can’t

It’s just really frustrating to see other white lgbt people making such a mockery of part of our shared history and weaponizing it against each other and treating it like it’s a fun prop and using it to try to imitate race oppression. It’s so embarrassing thats all

Personally I don’t reclaim slurs unless you consider queer to be a slur which honestly I rlly don’t but yeah. This was just kind of a rant abt how annoying some of u are and how much I hate slur discourse. Feel free to express how u feel too