Yes, my comment was pointing out that there are systemic forces that incentivize women to support TERFism along the lines of their privilege within a white-heteropatriarchal system. No, that does not mean we wave away women’s subscription to fascism as the consequences of some especially bad actors behind a curtain when those bad actors are acting in the exact same interests and are in that position because of that interest.
Lemmy is an interesting site because you’ll see a lot of middle- or even lower-class liberals who find some kind of reason to think that people in their position wouldn’t be bigoted because it benefited them. It is in fact deeply misogynistic to suggest that the thousands of women who subscribe to this, and definitely do stand to gain something from maintaining a system where they have cheap food and clothes in an imperial metropole, are only doing so because they have been misled. The other commenter on this thread made a similar mistake.
Even though there are individuals in positions of power who benefit the most from this system, that doesn’t mean your white middle class mom doesn’t benefit from racism, sexism, or transphobia. Yes, people like you can be bad people for very little benefit, they are not “tricked” into it, they correctly identify that their privilege gets them something and have chosen to maintain that privilege rather than challenge it and risk the most minute changes in their lives.
Yes, my comment was pointing out that there are systemic forces that incentivize women to support TERFism along the lines of their privilege within a white-heteropatriarchal system. No, that does not mean we wave away women’s subscription to fascism as the consequences of some especially bad actors behind a curtain when those bad actors are acting in the exact same interests and are in that position because of that interest.
Lemmy is an interesting site because you’ll see a lot of middle- or even lower-class liberals who find some kind of reason to think that people in their position wouldn’t be bigoted because it benefited them. It is in fact deeply misogynistic to suggest that the thousands of women who subscribe to this, and definitely do stand to gain something from maintaining a system where they have cheap food and clothes in an imperial metropole, are only doing so because they have been misled. The other commenter on this thread made a similar mistake.
Even though there are individuals in positions of power who benefit the most from this system, that doesn’t mean your white middle class mom doesn’t benefit from racism, sexism, or transphobia. Yes, people like you can be bad people for very little benefit, they are not “tricked” into it, they correctly identify that their privilege gets them something and have chosen to maintain that privilege rather than challenge it and risk the most minute changes in their lives.