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https://nitter.lucabased.xyz/nathanallebach/status/1809281898386018565#m

Dae only wanna critique a genociding regime. Too bad no power for you sweetie.

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[โ€“] EpicKebabEater@hexbear.net 33 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

We are people just like anybody else, we'll find another egotistical style-over-substance essayist to immediately fill the void with.

P.s. I wish Natalie would see the light of Islam or something so this episode of discourse could end. White queer libs proudly and smugly admitting they don't care anything but themselves for the thousandth time.

[โ€“] RiotDoll@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

I think most people are self interested. That's not an innate matter - we could be raised to be better, we can learn to unlearn the worst things capitalist society imparts to us - but most people are self interested, and Natalie comes from a cohort economically that is insulated from the consequences of the status quo, and even benefits thereof - they were never going to be a proper comrade, and any vision of Natalie as this, was predicated on a misreading of the things she said, and also built from incorrect assumptions about elements of her identity (this idea that trans women are de facto comrades does a lot of harm to trans folk tbqh).

Even in properly left circles, there can be extreme hesitance to surrender to a collective identity and a collective interest, due to any number of things ranging from trauma to just pathological chips on shoulders, to the flatly self-interested seeking to exploit people, but even outside that context, it's just weird anybody ever thought the bougie, well-off white lady was gonna have the life experience needed to be what some leftists saw in her.