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The vast majority of people are not ever going to be comfortable with deer pronouns and that’s just a fact. What you’re saying is that we must box these people out until they’re sufficiently compliant with radical social values held by a fraction of a fraction of a percent of people in the world.
Like I don’t care. I will call you a deer if it makes you happy. But I’m not everyone, and the struggles for Liberation needs mass support. Not just locally or domestically but globally. People are saying “if you don’t use neopronouns you’re not a leftist” and all I can think is “would a devout muslim refugee whose family was slaughtered by US-funded wahhabists be comfortable using neopronouns, and would we box them out of the struggle of they weren’t”
I mean, maybe they would, but I’m not sure you’ve spent a lot of time with people from the global south if you think that’s even the more likely scenario let alone the probable one. Most immigrants I’ve known, and I’ve known a lot working on construction sites and in retail in high-diversity areas, are pretty socially conservative and religious. Religious values aren’t any less important to them than they are to our domestic fundamentalists.
It wouldn’t affect them at all, so they’d probably do the decent thing and call people by their pronouns.
Okay, I appreciate you giving them the benefit of the doubt, but come on.
