You need to get off the internet and meet some regular LGBT people if you think the rabid fringe activists represent all of us. I assume you’re Muslim given your username, so you must know how it feels when people assume a small number of your people who do bad things are somehow a representation of the larger community. Duh I’m ok people not specifically supporting our cause, especially if they have their own shit to deal with. But if they’re here telling us we’re getting undeserved attention and need to shut up, well I’m going to take issue with that.
Let’s take a specific example - the problems Muslims face in Europe who are threatened by bigotry and the rise of the far right. That’s getting a good chunk of airtime in the EU, more than trans rights. I’m not going to tell those Muslims protesting unfair treatment that they should talk about “broader rights” or also fight for trans rights because they obviously need to focus on the specific threat to their existence.
LGBT people and the BLM movement don’t control the media and it is not the responsibility of an oppressed group to talk for any other group, nor is it a good idea frankly. This is the same reasoning the men’s rights movement makes when they say feminists are not paying enough attention to men’s issues. The same argument the “all lives matter” group makes against the BLM movement. It’s a bad faith argument meant to derail the conversation from specific issues affecting specific communities. Movements fail when they lose focus, just ask anyone involved in Occupy Wall street.
You need to get off the internet and meet some regular LGBT people if you think the rabid fringe activists represent all of us. I assume you’re Muslim given your username, so you must know how it feels when people assume a small number of your people who do bad things are somehow a representation of the larger community. Duh I’m ok people not specifically supporting our cause, especially if they have their own shit to deal with. But if they’re here telling us we’re getting undeserved attention and need to shut up, well I’m going to take issue with that.
Let’s take a specific example - the problems Muslims face in Europe who are threatened by bigotry and the rise of the far right. That’s getting a good chunk of airtime in the EU, more than trans rights. I’m not going to tell those Muslims protesting unfair treatment that they should talk about “broader rights” or also fight for trans rights because they obviously need to focus on the specific threat to their existence.
LGBT people and the BLM movement don’t control the media and it is not the responsibility of an oppressed group to talk for any other group, nor is it a good idea frankly. This is the same reasoning the men’s rights movement makes when they say feminists are not paying enough attention to men’s issues. The same argument the “all lives matter” group makes against the BLM movement. It’s a bad faith argument meant to derail the conversation from specific issues affecting specific communities. Movements fail when they lose focus, just ask anyone involved in Occupy Wall street.