For posting all the anonymous reactionary bullshit that you can't post anywhere else.
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I know that there are a lot of trans people on hexbear, and I know their beliefs are sincere. What I don’t understand is how they square the fact that they would be brutally suppressed, r*****, tortured, murdered by the very groups/governments they unwaveringly love and support. It sickens me. Is it a manifestation of self-hatred? I just don’t get why they would degrade themselves like this.
Why would they spend all the effort making this post when their argument is still "you would get thrown off a roof in [country that scares me]"
Also, ideologies are influenced by material conditions. Reactionary ideologies including transphobia have a tailwind in bad economic conditions, this is obvious in the USA now. Reducing Iran's (or gaza, yemen, etc) material conditions through warfare only increases the potential of reactionary ideologies to become a problem.
China really proved through their economic policies in Xinjiang that it really does reduce chuddery. Within 10 years a hotbed of fundamentalism (funded by America) was effectively eliminated through good public policy and raising the standard of living for millions of people. It's why the state department is so mad and called it a "genocide" they can't fathom helping people, they can only think in terms of bombing people.
That's a good point. I wish I understood the details of how Xinjiang has changed over the years but I know it is doing very well now and Uyghur culture is respected and celebrated.
I wish we had public opinion polling from China, because I'm guessing that any "anti-uyghur" sentiment that existed in the non-uyghur population has also gone down in the past 20 years.