Performatively pretending to support movements against oppression is just no longer, in any way, less frustrating than the conservative tendency to just outright support oppression, and that’s all liberals do.
Obviously, conservatives are evil and huge pieces of shit, but I’m at a point in my online presence where I just expect the most brainlet shit from them.
Libs, on the other hand, are just in an indefinite cycle of spouting bad takes that enable oppression, but due to ignorance, they think they’re actively helping fight against it.
As a trans person of color, bigotry from conservatives is phasing me much less nowadays, but racism and transphobia from libs now seems significantly more abhorrent.
Don’t expect me to explain the psychology behind it. This is just how it be like sometimes.
The reason that libs annoy me so much is because they think they know what’s best for me. Conservatives don’t give a shit about what’s best for me and they aren’t afraid to tell me. They want what’s best for them and who cares about me. That’s easy to understand and easy to just ignore.
But the libs. The libs pretend they want what’s best for me. They don’t want to listen to me say what’s best for me though they want to tell me, prescriptively, what’s best for me without having any context by which they could have any clue what’s best for me. They just “know” it because they have a PhD or it’s common sense or they read about it in the Atlantic or whatever the fuck things libs do. They never want to listen to what the people who the claim to want to help actually say will help them. It’s maddening.
I’ve heard right-wing people say the same about socialists and communists, though. Especially ones with family from communist areas, like Cuba, or the former Soviet block will say, “socialists think it will be good but they’ve never been there to know how bad it is.” If you bring up sanctions or something, they’ll just say you’re diminishing their family’s lived experience. Some conservative Americans will say the same thing if some European criticizes them for not having universal healthcare. “Sure it works over there, but not over here where there’s too much diversity. You just don’t know our local experience”, blah blah blah. Just saying, it’s easy language to co-opt and people don’t always know what’s good for them lol.
Well yeah of course, right wingers project everything