Which means we should erase the experiences of people who are literally being thrown into camps on the basis of race, legal citizenship, and class? Like, you don’t seem to realise that the talking point you just used is common in discourses that seek to minimize the harm of these groups.
White women suffragests insisted all women had a shared experience while obviously disregarding black women’s oppression, gay men were infamously uncooperative with lesbians and gender queer people in their activism even while claiming to speak for us all on the basis of a commonly “gay” sexuality, respectable middle-class queer people today dominate queer activism and have effectively disarmed its material and social critiques of settler-colonialism exactly because they identify their needs as universal.
Which means we should erase the experiences of people who are literally being thrown into camps on the basis of race, legal citizenship, and class? Like, you don’t seem to realise that the talking point you just used is common in discourses that seek to minimize the harm of these groups.
White women suffragests insisted all women had a shared experience while obviously disregarding black women’s oppression, gay men were infamously uncooperative with lesbians and gender queer people in their activism even while claiming to speak for us all on the basis of a commonly “gay” sexuality, respectable middle-class queer people today dominate queer activism and have effectively disarmed its material and social critiques of settler-colonialism exactly because they identify their needs as universal.