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keffals absolutely did a bunch of unacceptable racist shit, but I do feel like she wouldn't have gotten nearly as much backlash for it if she wasn't a trans woman, and that is worth taking into consideration IMO. she's spoken about as if she's a monster, and recently I had someone make fun of her gender presentation to my face (disguised as a compliment, along the lines of "you're more of a real woman than keffals is"). why is that an acceptable consequence for transfems in leftist circles, meanwhile everyone allows cis folks to act the goat without so much as a slap on the wrist?
obviously everybody should face consequences for racist actions and have to actually put in effort to make amends in order to be forgiven. but transmisogyny is not an acceptable consequence for bad behaviour, despite its seemingly ubiquitous use as such by people who claim to be opposed to bigotry and violent oppression. it's not even really about keffals either, I've just seen time after time that most allegedly trans-positive people turn completely transmisogynistic the moment they decide a particular transfem is Evil™, no matter what the actual severity of the misstep is, or even if it's an actual misstep at all, and that really needs to be addressed before we all die.
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the TL;DR of this is really just "don't use transmisogyny as a punishment for Bad Transfems because what it actually does is hurt the entire trans community" and I would really appreciate it if people didn't put words in my mouth or assume this is coming from a malicious place without even speaking to me. just covering my bases
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like to be perfectly crystal clear: I don't think keffals should have a free pass to act racist, I think that transmisogynistic behaviour towards her isn't justified, and that cis people need to focus the same level of anger towards racists in their own group, otherwise they're just passing off their transmisogyny as anti-racism.
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In the case of Keffals especially, but otherwise too, another issue with racism and trans people is that often it takes substantial research to figure out if someone is in fact racist or not, because the more famous the person in question the more misrepresented or outright falsified information there floats around about the topic, spread by various bigots such as former kiwifarmers (or people with personal grudges)
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This all the way. In general, it is worryingly common for people to think that it's okay to act bigoted towards bad people. If someone wants to insult a bad person, they should be insulted for their bad actions.
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This is just really bad framing bc the popular fashy white transfem doesnt need defending n this energy could be used against the racist bullshit shes still pushing, and certainly still being listened to about
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@maya I'm not trying to defend Keffals or her racism. And absolutely, TMA nonwhite people are going to face the most consequences of her racism—but they're also going to face the most consequences of (mainly white) people normalizing transmisogyny-as-a-punishment and letting racism from cis people slide.
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@maya more generally it's the phenomenon of it suddenly becoming acceptable to exercise one's transmisogyny once a transfem commits an act that gives them a (deserved or otherwise) negative social status. in the case of keffals it is obviously deserved that people are pissed at her for being a racist ass. but that doesn't mean the next "acceptable target of transmisogyny" is going to be someone who's actually in the wrong—and even if it is, the idea that someone can do something to deserve bigotry is still unacceptable under any circumstances. keffals should be criticized, shamed, and punished for her racism, not her transness, and cis people like her should face the same level of backlash.
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But she does not have a negative social status n she still makes her money off fash and white trans ppl who idolize her The victims of her racism are not the people being transmisogynistic and there is no reason to conflate the two
I would understand it more if you could prove that as more ppl called out her racist shit, more people were transmisogynistic to her. But that doesnt make sense, there's not a significant number of transmisogynists who are demonstratably anti-racist
Transmisogynists being transmisogynistic behind the guise of anti-racism is likely not uncommon but that is different imo
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Also it is absolutely not uncommon to see trans women debased for purely transmisogynistic reasons ie pedojacketing but she's literally just a nazi with tens of thousands of followers who met just a little pushback after being too explicit in her racism
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@maya I wasn't trying to conflate the act of calling Keffals out for her racism with transmisogyny, and I'm not sure where it sounded like I was. To be clear, calling out a white trans woman for racism, and demanding that she change her behaviour is not transmisogyny. That's a normal and reasonable reaction, and the other white trans women who accuse all criticism of being transmisogynistic are enabling her racism whether they realize it or not. My point is that, among the leftist circles I seem to hear the most from, which all rightfully agree that Keffals is a racist asshole, it seems to be socially acceptable to direct transmisogyny at her as a punishment for her actions (e.g. that "at least you're more of a real woman than Keffals" comment I received), and even downplay and excuse cis people's racism/other bigotry.
I also don't know what Keffals has done to justify being labeled as a full-on Nazi?
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@maya I guess maybe it could have been clearer that I was using a phenomenon local to my frame of reference as an example, which may not reflect the global average of people's reactions to Keffals' behaviour, but regardless I think it's important that people in leftist circles examine whether there's transmisogyny or other bigotry present even when they're calling out behaviour that should absolutely not be tolerated, but is by the general public.
The thing I want people to take away from this isn't that "the anti-racists were too mean to Keffals :(", it's that there should always be a process in every leftist's head asking, "is there a possibility that internalized biases are coming into play here? if this behaviour is bad, am I allowing more privileged groups to get away with less consequences for it? is doing X really holding someone accountable, or is it actually punching down to an innocent group?" no matter how strongly they feel that the other person is Wrong and Bad and Irredeemably Evil; otherwise we can, will, and will continue to have bigots exploiting those blind spots (i.e. via pedojacketing)
Claiming to be a "friendly, welcoming space for all kinds of furries" and then excluding anyone under 18 is honestly quite shitty. If you wanna run an NSFW-focused community that's fine, but say that up front and don't pretend you're all-inclusive. There's a severe lack of non-age-restricted furry spaces in general, and especially ones that aren't actively sex-negative & anti-queer.
That shit really hurt me and made me feel like I didn't belong when I was younger. I was isolated, I felt like I was broken and wrong and bad for being myself, and I'm still working through all of that. I'd rather not have more socially-rejected queer kids suffer the way I did. Let's show them a little compassion. Please.
Oh yeah, I fucking hate prudes. Like, okay, sex and sexuality isn't a big, important thing for you personally. Good for you, there's nothing wrong with that! But what you don't get to do is act like you're a morally better person for it, and go around censoring and queerbashing people who are open and proud about it. Those moral panics that y'all love to create get queer people killed, but I guess y'all are fine with eradicating all traces of sinners^W"disgusting sexual people".
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The victims of her racism are not the people being transmisogynistic and there is no reason to conflate the two
I would understand it more if you could prove that as more ppl called out her racist shit, more people were transmisogynistic to her. But that doesnt make sense, there's not a significant number of transmisogynists who are demonstratably anti-racist
Transmisogynists being transmisogynistic behind the guise of anti-racism is likely not uncommon but that is different imo
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I also don't know what Keffals has done to justify being labeled as a full-on Nazi?
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The thing I want people to take away from this isn't that "the anti-racists were too mean to Keffals :(", it's that there should always be a process in every leftist's head asking, "is there a possibility that internalized biases are coming into play here? if this behaviour is bad, am I allowing more privileged groups to get away with less consequences for it? is doing X really holding someone accountable, or is it actually punching down to an innocent group?" no matter how strongly they feel that the other person is Wrong and Bad and Irredeemably Evil; otherwise we can, will, and will continue to have bigots exploiting those blind spots (i.e. via pedojacketing)