The irony of this comment is palpable.

I presume that you are unfamiliar with the meme, so you don’t see the context of someone loudly proclaiming their outrage at something above and beyond something else, only to be pulled up by someone else pointing at the absurdity of considering the something else being treated as the lesser issue. Not contained in the image version is the first person turning to the second and rapidly disclaiming their apparent support (or lack of sanction) of the issue they can excuse.

Given that such lack of care regarding things that do not effect them personally, it’s also an example of the lukewarm acceptance of the white moderate the King discussed in Birmingham. The idea that there are more important issues than the naked bigotry and we must deal with other issues first is the bewildering support that is more frustrating than the outright rejection.

But, then, you should have some inkling of that, shouldn’t you? Given how much you had to demand nuance of those who question where you place your disdain in your edits.

But, sure, let your takeaway be that I said you excused racism.

You may notice that I didn’t say you excused racism, but instead became the meme:

If you’re going to crib from Letters From A Birmingham Jail, maybe don’t become the “I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at…” meme?

You’re talking about narrative control, you ain’t gonna be controlling the narrative on your lonesome. You can’t work with the people who are being transphobic at a statue? Work with the people who can. Heck, work with the people who can push the narrative away from the transphobia. Or even just work with the people working to build the frameworks for getting better narratives out in people’s faces. Bottom line, work with people.

You don’t know who’s working to do those things? Work to figure out what should be done and who is doing things, and–this is the important part–get some people to help you do those figure out those whats and the whos. There is so much work to be done, and so much of that work is just figuring out what needs to happen and when and where it that need is. Every org complains about capacity, always, because there is always more to be done.

We spend far too much time yelling at each other for being complicit in the nothing being done about this, and that only serves to suck our time and energy away from working together to figure out how to unfuck this.

I have people in my near-age group who were punished for using their left hand and not the “correct hand.” Given the right environment, they’ll bring it back and act like it’s the morally correct thing.

“Y’all” like you ain’t part of the discourse. Don’t just complain, educate. What’s obvious to you is novel to someone, and you not getting organized with your narrative is just waiting for someone organized to present theirs instead.

“The left hates us because we’re frog furries” is one of the takes of all time.

Clearly, no queer person has ever adopted a flamboyant persona and worn elaborately designed costumes.

I’m all over this comment chain. It rather bothers me seeing this kind of bigotry get deployed against a queer subculture, and a rather long standing one, because it’s the same oppression that gets put on us from the outside, and it is especially galling when I see queer people do it to other queer people. I presume that TERF lesbians calling trans people “predatory men invading women’s spaces and misguided sisters” is something you can’t stand at least as much as I do? Please recognize that painting furries as sexual degenerates is the same thing. Maybe I’m at a nexus of the gay furry community, but so many of the queer people in my locale are also part of the furry subculture, and, no, their existence is not purely sexual, and, yes, furry is a pretty core aspect of their identity and culture.

Oh, indeed. I’m sure you have a tight five about identifying as a helicopter you’re just dying to share with us.

And now the pivot from furries to trans people. I am utterly shocked that this would be the case.