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Originally posted by SlayingOnTheEarth
Why is she making it a religion and race issue? Why do black people have to only choose "one" to support? Why can't they support both? Also, she says Caitlyn has coin. Yes and so do some black folk. Is she saying they are all poor or something? Or that it's only black people that kick LGBT kids out on the street? She makes valid points, but is mixing issues for no reason. She could literally have made that video and left out Caitlyn and it would have been the tea. One doesn't have anything to do with the other. Should we not celebrate anyone anymore, because some people have it worse? ****ing hell.
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She's calling out the people who openly support Caitlyn because she's part of their favorite reality tv family, call her brave and a trailblazer, all the while they demonize their own friends/family/colleagues/children for going through the same struggle. The entire world seems to be out in full force supporting Caitlyn because she's "a famous person bringing attention to this issue", yet the majority of these people never cared about trans people or their issues before their favorite celebrity family brought it up. They're getting killed on the streets and having news articles written about them every day, but no one cares.
Women like Laverne Cox have done more for the trans community than Caitlyn ever has, but she is paid absolute dust by most of the people supporting Caitlyn. There is definitely some significance in the fact that the mainstream media only seems to care about trans issues when it's involving a beautiful light-skinned woman.
Ofc, these issues are not mutually exclusive. People can care about multiple things at the same time, but she's not talking to those people. She's talking to the hypocrites, of which there are a lot of. Basically, if you're one of the people applauding Caitlyn and praising her for bringing this issue to the forefront of society, then you better be showing the same support (if not MORE) for the people in your life who are in a similar struggle. Caitlyn is rich and famous, living her truth, she doesn't really need our support at the end of the day. The kid whose parents kicked him out on the street do.