What Makes People Transphobic? | Clarissa's Blog
I think the only way to solve the problem of oppression through identities is to deny identities, not to dig into them still deeper. I'm not Marcusian in that sense. It was surely a failed experiment to expect people to start a revolution on the basis of their identities in relation to historical oppression. It's not that there haven't been revolutions of that sort, but they generally make things worse. It really is a spectacle to behold. People are so immersed in their petty guilt complexes and in the power trips entailed in guilt-tripping others, that they cannot see that this leads nowhere practical and just makes things worse. People like Mugabe love having this arrow in their quiver, because they can keep committing atrocities. His party's youth members burned alive the 12 year old son of an opposition politician, in his house, recently. His name was Christpower Maisiri. Nobody in the West will say anything about anything that involves 'black on black' violence, because...colonialism.
So you have a lot of self-righteous people morally purifying themselves from within, and having a righteous old time They know how to discipline members of their own fold and exert authoritative power over them, but they don't dare to comment on the issues relating to the world at large. That would be...um...sinful...overstepping the boundaries... losing the pleasures of the masochism involved in hair shirt whiteness.
And we are to believe that this isn't a meta form of domination? That it is not part of the process of continual colonisation of our minds?
Well, yes we are. And mea culpa and all that. See you in hell.
I think the only way to solve the problem of oppression through identities is to deny identities, not to dig into them still deeper. I'm not Marcusian in that sense. It was surely a failed experiment to expect people to start a revolution on the basis of their identities in relation to historical oppression. It's not that there haven't been revolutions of that sort, but they generally make things worse. It really is a spectacle to behold. People are so immersed in their petty guilt complexes and in the power trips entailed in guilt-tripping others, that they cannot see that this leads nowhere practical and just makes things worse. People like Mugabe love having this arrow in their quiver, because they can keep committing atrocities. His party's youth members burned alive the 12 year old son of an opposition politician, in his house, recently. His name was Christpower Maisiri. Nobody in the West will say anything about anything that involves 'black on black' violence, because...colonialism.
So you have a lot of self-righteous people morally purifying themselves from within, and having a righteous old time They know how to discipline members of their own fold and exert authoritative power over them, but they don't dare to comment on the issues relating to the world at large. That would be...um...sinful...overstepping the boundaries... losing the pleasures of the masochism involved in hair shirt whiteness.
And we are to believe that this isn't a meta form of domination? That it is not part of the process of continual colonisation of our minds?
Well, yes we are. And mea culpa and all that. See you in hell.
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