If you’re a human capable of rational thought and reasoned argument who wants the world to be a better place your opinion is just as valid as any other. Doesn’t make you right, but gender, race, etc don’t make you wrong.
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How do?
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because oppressors are wrong when it comes to the liberation needs of the oppressed
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So you’re an oppressor based the sex and skin color you ended up with birth? I get that to an extent; white guys get away with a lot (everything,?really) just by being white guys. What I’m hearing here, though, is they can’t be allies?
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Not be allies and express honest outrage at what we see and here?
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I’m OK if somebody doesn’t want me as an ally. I’m more concerned if identity automatically excludes people who want to get to a better place through rational debate.
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Oppressors define rationality and the standards of debate. Liberation is not a topic subject to debate; debate is an act of further holding captive those who are oppressed.
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If you are cis, you are by virtue automatically excluded from having amy stance, moral, rational, or otherwise on the liberation of trans people, regardless of how well-intentioned you are. Your debate is itself a gate through which only you can profit from the toll.
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If that rationale generalises to any divisive topic, then we’re all doomed.

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