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the other day someone said, "where I come from people will call you slurs but when you're in need they will treat you like a human being. here people will debate using 'transphobic' rather than 'transmisic' for a week, then call the cops on you if you don't behave white enough. upon consideration I realise I prefer the former" and I've been thinking about it ever since.

I was reading somewhere else that said "the policing of language is a middle-class preoccupation" and I've been thinking about it ever since too.

like I don't want to claim that words don't matter, they obviously do, first step in dehumanisation etc. etc. and you should 100% intervene and call out etc. etc. but there's no sense of proportion, no sense of urgency, no sense of danger and most of all, no sense of the enemy.

I have to think this is because if people dared to admit the reality before their eyes they would have to fight, as in the non-metaphorical way, against tangible enemies with names and addresses living next door, rather than "fighting" by angryposting about the abstract spooks that spook our so-called "communities".