GRT Community/ Solidarity With Marginalised People by All Means Necessary, Including Voting
The only conscious bigotry I ever knew to be evident in a close family member was against the GRT community.
Till now bigots of this type, the ones who don’t engage in actual hate crimes against the community are quiet but the prejudice is there in far too many people.
However now, with the cultural genocide measures in the #PoliceStateAct, it is very likely that those quiet bigots will become more open with their bile and some of then will engage in hate crime, something that’s never gone away for the GRT community but could still get worse.
The truth is that things can always get worse and while we work for revolutionary change, absenting yourself entirely from the (inadequate) undemocratic process makes a difference to marginalised people.
Non participation in harm mitigation is only possible due to unchecked privilege.
We can do more than one thing.
We can vote to make material difference to marginalised people and, at the same time, declare that we do so only out of solidarity and promise to use all means necessary to dismantle oppressive systems and undemocratic processes.
This cultural genocide is an example of those material differences the action that voting, which ON ITS OWN IS ENTIRELY INADEQUATE, can achieve. It would be profound privilege and lack of solidarity that would make us not think that’s worth doing.
I use the term cultural genocide because that is what these measures in the Police State Act do, they make it impossible to continue practicing GRT culture within the law.