This is a transcript of a weird statement by an actual Democrat staffer in Pennsylvania, who presumably identifies as Queer, made in the aftermath of Trump´s election victory.
His/her point seems to be that the Harris campaign didn´t hire enough Queers of color and that the White Queers (and autists?) who were hired are racists. So are all other White people. The whole thing comes across as a Woke therapy session, rather than a serious post-election analysis.
A propos recent claims *by Democrats* that the emphasis on transgenderism may have lost Harris the White House...
>>>One common theme a lot of the people of color on this campaign experienced was that whenever they actually had concerns or elevated microaggressions or weren't feeling heard, and they tried to elevate these they were pushed to the side, brushed to the side, not listened to, not taken seriously, and we see what the results of that have been. Now this is no surprise. This is what the Democratic Party has always been. However, it is shocking and highly, highly irresponsible to be putting people in positions of power that act this way on a campaign for a black woman.
>>>It makes no sense to me, and as a direct result of my experience on this campaign, I feel the need to remind white people that even if you are queer or neurodivergent and you identify with a minority group, that does not exclude you from acts of racism, from doing microaggressions, from centering yourself in conversations where you don't need to be centered.
>>>If you want to be a true ally to people of color, if you want to be a true ally to the positions you say that you believe in support, you need to make room in space for the people who are directly impacted by those decisions, and not center yourself just because you think you identify with one or the other minority identities.
>>>Far too often in this campaign, we felt like we were settling our diversity quota by taking queer white people and putting them in positions of power, not understanding that at the core of their being, if they haven't unlearned their toxic whiteness and white fragility, that they would see all of their decisions through the lens of a person that is more aligned and more fitting with a Trump presidency than that of a presidency of Kamala Harris.
>>>One thing that we know is that this country runs on racism, and so it should be no shock that the same thing our country runs on, so do our parties, both left and right. So I'm not surprised that we lost, and a lot of people of color weren't surprised that we lost, but there were a lot of tears from white faces wondering, how could this happen?
>>>Crying, not because their rights are going to be stripped. Crying, not because they are going to lose access to health care or lose access to getting their transition medication or being demonized for their mere existence, not because they're going to be continually priced out of the things that they deserve as American people, or have their parents deported back to a different country, but because they were at the center of something and they didn't get what they wanted...
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