It might not be true, but if people act as if it is, then it has truth in it, yeah?
A political movement that makes emotional appeals.
The problem isn’t that some of us don’t want to abstract the system out and discuss that. It’s that you have a tendency to bring these things up in a way when it’s raw and emotional. Abstracting away racism or transphobia or whatever, by focusing on the discourse that surrounds it doesn’t help when we’re trying to sort out the physical reality from the ideology. Yes, there is a time and place for discussing the ideological structures that shape our lives invisibly. In the thread discussing the obviously hateful burning and murdering of a transgendered person isn’t really that time.
