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Honestly, if more queer people read writing from BIPOC liberation movements, we would be better prepared for how to fight this. Because it's not going to be "They set up camps." It's going to be "We're slowly becoming less employable with harder laws and a quiet deconstruction of civil rights protections."

Which is EXACTLY how the US has been oppressing BIPOC people for 400 years. We know how to exist and thrive under that oppression because we ARE the survivorship bias.

This is why the underlying thread of racism within the Queer community is just as dangerous to it as the broader realities of racism have been to American Democracy as a whole. Far too many privileged white Queer people have a complete ignorance of BIPOC struggle. A disconnection from BIPOC communities, literature, history. But there are generations of our struggle that could be cooperative.