I'm not a polticial scientist, so I can't say why the Harris lost. I can only speculate, but I can say that having Drag Queens in school isn't what queer radicalism is about. It's about gender affirming care, tackling systemic bigotry, fighting cis-heteronormative social structures, and a whole host of other things t…
I'm not a polticial scientist, so I can't say why the Harris lost. I can only speculate, but I can say that having Drag Queens in school isn't what queer radicalism is about. It's about gender affirming care, tackling systemic bigotry, fighting cis-heteronormative social structures, and a whole host of other things that the Dems don't care about. Harris is NOT supportive of us, definitely not "over reliant" on queer radicalism, especially with how with the basically only time she acknowledged us was to kick trans rights back to "between patients and doctors" (which is transmedicalism). That's not to mention how queer people are (theoretically) strapped to the Dems regardless because the Republicans suck!
Drag Queens in schools is an interesting topic I'll have to look at, though
It also reduces all the other abhorrent things that Harris stood for like fracking, harsh border policy, support of genocide, etc... And makes it entirely about drag queens. C'mon, drag queens don't represent the entire queer community, they're a loud and colorful part but what saying "drag queens in school cost us the election" amounts to is "the Dems didn't sell out gay people so they lost the election". We can have more nuance than that, right?
Most people don't care to understand the big paragraph about gender affirmative surgery, but they do care if they come across a meme about a public school where teachers invited a drag queen to read stories to kids.
Unfortunately that's going to be our world for some time.
Okay, I gotcha now :)
I'm not a polticial scientist, so I can't say why the Harris lost. I can only speculate, but I can say that having Drag Queens in school isn't what queer radicalism is about. It's about gender affirming care, tackling systemic bigotry, fighting cis-heteronormative social structures, and a whole host of other things that the Dems don't care about. Harris is NOT supportive of us, definitely not "over reliant" on queer radicalism, especially with how with the basically only time she acknowledged us was to kick trans rights back to "between patients and doctors" (which is transmedicalism). That's not to mention how queer people are (theoretically) strapped to the Dems regardless because the Republicans suck!
Drag Queens in schools is an interesting topic I'll have to look at, though
It also reduces all the other abhorrent things that Harris stood for like fracking, harsh border policy, support of genocide, etc... And makes it entirely about drag queens. C'mon, drag queens don't represent the entire queer community, they're a loud and colorful part but what saying "drag queens in school cost us the election" amounts to is "the Dems didn't sell out gay people so they lost the election". We can have more nuance than that, right?
I think your final line is what answers it bro.
Most people don't care to understand the big paragraph about gender affirmative surgery, but they do care if they come across a meme about a public school where teachers invited a drag queen to read stories to kids.
Unfortunately that's going to be our world for some time.
Only if you let it be :)
He wrote further explaining it. Would love your thoughts too.
https://open.substack.com/pub/samharris/p/the-reckoning?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=o34bn
Looks like a transphobic rant, smells like a transphobic rant, reads like a transphobic rant. Could it possibly be, a transphobic rant?