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LGBT+ people are disproportionately affected by homelessness, access to food and water, civil rights, and everything else you just spouted, so I don't see how improving their living conditions doesn't also help mitigate the other problems.
Could you explain?
Add discrimination, mental illness, alcoholism, generational poverty, and cultural genocide to the list, then change lgbt+ to native Americans.
In that case, that's exactly the point I'm making. Lgbt+ haven't been generationally oppressed because those things aren't born with you. A gay man can have a straight son as easily as a trans daughter, but a native man will always have a native child, and that child will face undue hardship by the simple fact of the history they are born into. That deserves more of the news cycle than another protest to keep or ban drag queen story hour at the local library.
You frame the issue as if you are more important than LGBT people, but then you also signal that their issues don't actually exist, so I'm not really willing to trust that you actually care at all.
This is the same way TERFs frame feminism. "Fuck you, I want mine." It is quite toxic.
This is an unfortunate take since the intersectionality of gender identity, sexuality, and race when it comes to ALL OF THOSE ISSUES is there. But you don't see them as allies fighting for common ground. You see this as a zero-sum game.
You also seem to side with the media's focus, which is swallowing right-wing talking points, so I also have to believe that you're not really learning from indigenous history, as those same tactics were used against them, as well.
If you want to help indigenous peoples, you can focus on a problem that affects many groups and bring it to the forefront. That brings allies into your group to work together towards a goal, instead of dividing them so that they are easily conquered.
Your last paragraph so neatly captures my own point it's kinda funny. "If you want to help lgbt+, you can focus on a problem that affects many groups (like clean water). That brings allies into your group to work together towards a goal." Except your group has more fucking allies than members in my entire nation. And instead of using those allies to fight for something like water rights, you're burning media time to talk about how grown men should be able to dress as overtly sexualized caricatures of women to read books to children. That's not an issue that affects many groups. But it's still on the fuckin news. Our world isn't EXACTLY zero sum but it's close. There are only so many hours in the 24 hours news cycle, and I should be seeing more water cleaning and less drag book reading. Explain to me why that is without blaming the mysterious powers that be who are probably just trying to make you look bad.
Again, you should re-read history for how indigenous peoples were systematically genocided. Shall I post for you the "noble savage"? Would you like to see how media at the time was flooded with stories about "they just want to dance, worship animals, and speak gibberish?" Want to tell me how it's different from what you're saying now?
You are eating the same brand of propaganda that was used against indigenous peoples, black people, women, etc., etc., and using it against LGBT people. You have learned nothing from tragedy, except to hate others. Congratulations on assimilating.
Bullets and blankets mostly. Then came the churches, the camps, and eventually the schools. Y'see, the difference is that the media came after. It happened to the southern empires first. The propaganda comes well after the genocide. It's a justification tool. You're here trying to tell me the media is telling me who to hate. I don't hate trannies. We have a gay bar downtown overflowing with them. Good, cop hating people. What I hate is seeing them in the news picketing to bring back drag queen story hour when there are homeless cities without water down the street. I hate seeing senators argue about prepubescent access to hrt when there are 150 year old treaties not being honored to this day with native peoples. And I hate seeing all of you here put words in my mouth about who I should or shouldn't hate for reasons I never brought up to begin with. There is no wrong think. Hatred is allowed. Sometimes, it's even justified. I just try my best to hate ideas instead of people. So no, I don't hate trannies or gays or twinsouls or any other extremely niche group youd like to add to the soup. I hate the overblown media footprint of shit that does not and will not ever matter to the overwhelming majority of people in this country.
You obviously do, since you're using the t-slur to describe them, as well as saying "gays".
Damn, dude, try harder.
"change lgbt+ to native americans" is veiled whataboutism. There's no reason we can't improve living standards for both groups at once, and using one struggling group as a reason to not support another struggling group is dishonest.