• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Okay then, you don’t hear about white bigots being secretly light-skinned black people. Pick whatever group you want. Queer people are the only one I can think of where it’s regularly claimed that the people bigoted against them are themselves the people they are bigoted against.

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      22 days ago

      Yeah, nobody says that people opposed to disability rights are secretly suffering from an invisible disability.

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      22 days ago

      Nah it’s a tale as old as time, we used to call it “the one who smelt it dealt it” but the principle is the same. The most fervent and vocal are often just trying to cover their own asses.

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        22 days ago

        Can you name another example where bigotry against a traditionally marginalized minority is virtually always claimed to be coming from that minority?