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4 years ago
Just today at work i overheard a report put out by the BBC's radio broadcast.
They detailed what they were referring to as an 'invasion' of antiracist activism, 'wokeism', gender neutral pronouns etc in europe that they claimed to be coming from the US.
While i think most people are aware at how evil and dramatic the contempt for transgender people is in the UK, the bbc report highlighted France instead.
It made france out to be some bastion of 'anti-wokeness' whose media as well as government wether liberal or nationalist were all united against 'radical' social justice ideology. They interviewed an american professor working in France who whined about having seen graffiti using the word TERFs. And how he proclaimed that new youth movements about trans rights and equality for minorities was being brought on as some empty fashion movement told to them by shadowy nebulous 'leaders' with each minority group having some style leader dictating to them what to think. He could not say this in a convincing way. Like he was making it up on theory with no actual substance.
The radio report ended with them asking will the proud french society be able to stamp out the invading social justice movements, and can france be a 'beacon of hope' for other nations like UK against trans and minority activism.
You know im not trans and im an older fur who just hit 40. But man did this distress me. I recall my own experience as a gay male and i can see the continuity between my battle for tolerance and those of trans individuals, i hope. Im also pretty certain that the same anti-woke talking heads and figures will be certain to go after gay rights as soon as they go after the rights of trans and nb people. They have that same thing in common.
Im aware that canceling ant postuing wokeness is a problem online oftentimes, but this whole 'anti-woke' crusade is making a majority of people who want the return of restrictive traditionalist moral codes and limit societal freedom and equality.
Ive always told trans people i know to be strong and not give in. Seeing the french president, cultual figures, even the education secretary talking about purging 'wokeism' and exploding with rage over a dictionary addind a non binary gender pronoun was extremely chilling and saddening. It makes me angry, fearful, and depressed. I see more how dark things have gotten.
This stuff though makes me further ephasise how essential it it for trans people to band together and be very strong in as of they dont give into suicidal ideations and self harm and instead must get mad and make a stand alomgside their fellow trans community members. Dont fucking let these powerful forces destroy you without a fight back. Fight back please, even just staying alive and saying im who i am is at least the first step in that. Block out the evil vitriol sometimes and listen to your allies and bretheren. Just dont die please. Get mad and keep fighting. I love you all
They detailed what they were referring to as an 'invasion' of antiracist activism, 'wokeism', gender neutral pronouns etc in europe that they claimed to be coming from the US.
While i think most people are aware at how evil and dramatic the contempt for transgender people is in the UK, the bbc report highlighted France instead.
It made france out to be some bastion of 'anti-wokeness' whose media as well as government wether liberal or nationalist were all united against 'radical' social justice ideology. They interviewed an american professor working in France who whined about having seen graffiti using the word TERFs. And how he proclaimed that new youth movements about trans rights and equality for minorities was being brought on as some empty fashion movement told to them by shadowy nebulous 'leaders' with each minority group having some style leader dictating to them what to think. He could not say this in a convincing way. Like he was making it up on theory with no actual substance.
The radio report ended with them asking will the proud french society be able to stamp out the invading social justice movements, and can france be a 'beacon of hope' for other nations like UK against trans and minority activism.
You know im not trans and im an older fur who just hit 40. But man did this distress me. I recall my own experience as a gay male and i can see the continuity between my battle for tolerance and those of trans individuals, i hope. Im also pretty certain that the same anti-woke talking heads and figures will be certain to go after gay rights as soon as they go after the rights of trans and nb people. They have that same thing in common.
Im aware that canceling ant postuing wokeness is a problem online oftentimes, but this whole 'anti-woke' crusade is making a majority of people who want the return of restrictive traditionalist moral codes and limit societal freedom and equality.
Ive always told trans people i know to be strong and not give in. Seeing the french president, cultual figures, even the education secretary talking about purging 'wokeism' and exploding with rage over a dictionary addind a non binary gender pronoun was extremely chilling and saddening. It makes me angry, fearful, and depressed. I see more how dark things have gotten.
This stuff though makes me further ephasise how essential it it for trans people to band together and be very strong in as of they dont give into suicidal ideations and self harm and instead must get mad and make a stand alomgside their fellow trans community members. Dont fucking let these powerful forces destroy you without a fight back. Fight back please, even just staying alive and saying im who i am is at least the first step in that. Block out the evil vitriol sometimes and listen to your allies and bretheren. Just dont die please. Get mad and keep fighting. I love you all
Just for existing.
Bastards...
I forgot to mention this but if any trans person is reading this I would advise them to look for an outlet for the pain in some music, i know this mostly unknown experimental artist from Scotland. who rusn a project called Cindytalk. She originally was a member of a late 70s punk band but in the early 80s had a major transformation, began comign to the process of recognizing her identity as a woman, and did this in the 80s in notoriously antitrans Britain where she still lives. I think it would be helpful for trans people to see the trans artists who came before them and made this art they channeled all their emotions into.
https://cindytalk.bandcamp.com/
Also, that information sounds helpful as hell, I'll have to look into that! Thank you!
They must be truly desperate to champion the hated country.
France is an anomaly; it has a very deeply ingrained revolutionary fervor, a deeply held bias against totalitarianism, royalism and religion but at the same time comes with surprisingly regressive attitudes in other areas such as domestic abuse. (As a bellwether a recent case involved a man described as abusive by his ENTIRE family (Including parents), whom numerous people said they wanted to kill for his awfulness, whose wife did him in with the willing involvement of his children. It was a toss up whether she'd be prosecuted for murder and some areas of French society decried her release.)
Of course the BBC and those associated with it... well a lot read The Daily Mail which says all you need to know about them.
The question is, their puffery aside, whether attitudes are actually regressing. This talk of an invasion might well be great news, people seldom complain if there's nothing there to complain about and the first step a movement has to victory is going from irrelevant to concerning to the establishment.