anon: except using the t slur [tranny/trap] to compare is a false comparison. its a slur used to punish people who go against societal constructs. racism doesn’t compare to transphobia- it compares more closely to sexism.

if a trans woman experiences sexism on the basis that she is a woman, and can relate her experiences with sexism to cis women’s experiences with sexism, if she can reclaim sexist language for herself and engage with sexism as a primary target, which in the context here, she is, i don’t understand why this is something exclusive to transgender people.

if a transabled person gets called the c slur [cripple] every day for their wheelchair, i don’t think its fair to say that they’re not being called slurs as a way of oppression. i don’t think it matters what ‘historically’ was used against you. there are trace people who are transitioned enough to be targets of racist violence towards their race. race is not something set incredibly in stone or as historically sound as you think it is, and you’re only re-enforcing it when you insist language used to construct the violent construct is innate and historical.

if someone came from a place where they never experienced racism against them pertaining to the slur but is of the same race as the person who does use it in a way you have decided is okay, but that person was never “historically” subjected to it in their whole lineage, you’re gonna tell me that you’d jump out and go “aha! you cant say that word because you we never a victim to that!”

if a white person flew to japan and started calling everyone very america centric anti-asian slurs, nobody there would be a ‘real target’, they wouldn’t be actually targeted because they’re a racial majority who’s society values their race above others? because to me, it’d still be slurs.

and so, if its biological value you’re claiming, at what point does your blood quantum for slurs cut people off? how mixed does a mixed person need to be in order for you to say its okay for them to say slurs? if it has to do with your race assigned at birth, a transitioned trace person can say slurs that no longer socially apply to them and face no backlash?

“It wasn’t used to oppress you historically, not because you aren’t your race!” but you’re also literally saying there “you cant be connected to your race’s history, your race’s history is not yours and cannot be, you are an outsider to your race.” you’re literally saying that.

as someone who is also bodily a PoC, i think regardless of if you have faced racism, you need to read more about how race is a construct and the history of race before continuing here with me. race doesn’t /have/ a strict history on people. you’re falling for the trap the construct lays out.

you’re also doing the typical transphobia of insisting a trans person will “never understand it because its not biological” about something that’s literally social. yes, there are differences between trans people and cis people. fucking duh. but oppression does not care. it will oppress both of them. when you make the divide as wide as “you cant share the same language”

i do think the divide in differences that you’re enforcing on others… does imply you think of them as an outsider to the cis person. I’m not thinking in black and white “apply everything that happens to transgender people to everyone else” I’m saying “the logic behind the reclamation is the same. why is one allowed socially and the other is not? if your response is, “yeah, transgender people cant reclaim things cisgender people can.” then okay, that’s your response.

i dont think that aligns with popular transgender view or like, the discussions around such for the last 2 decades or so, but hey. if you want to add that to the discussion, that’s your choice. im just saying i don’t, and most people ive talked to don’t.

so, if its okay for /those people/, why don’t /they/ think the same? may i remind you there are trace people who are transitioned and eve stealth? accepted in their communities? spokespeople on topics of racism?

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