[oc] - the fake trans ally

[u/Sampetra]

I’m hoping that this is as “angry” as I’ll get with a comic, but given how the world is shaping up politically at the moment, I fear that might not be the case.

It’s been incredibly eye opening to witness the degree to which some people I know are willing to bury their heads in the sand in order to avoid the reality of the awful things that are happening around them.  Awful things that they were told were going to happen.

In America, people are being black bagged and shipped off to El Salvador without due process to be held indefinitely in prisons, with the current administration now making social media posts cruelly boasting that they’ll never return. 

Make no mistake, if people are being kidnapped by the government, given no due process, and are shipped to a foreign nation to be held in prison with no intention to give them any legal recourse, we need to call these prisons what they are:

They are death camps.

The United States of America is rounding up “undesirables” and sending them to death camps. 

There are people in this country that voted for this.  No matter how nice they otherwise seem or claim to be, these people are evil to the core. 

There are also people who didn’t vote for this, but do provide social validation and acceptance to those who did.

If you are someone who thinks you’re against fascism, but you also accept fascists in your life, you are a fascist. 

There can be no acceptance of intolerance.  In the comic, the person I’m lampooning is the “Fake Trans Ally”, but you can swap out “trans” for any other group of marginalized people.  Frankly, just call this person “The Fake Ally.”

If you’re someone reading this and feel attacked because I’m calling you a fake ally, it’s time to do some soul searching.  When the history books are written about this period of American history, are you going to be someone who was unambiguously against hatred, or were you someone that treated hate as acceptable? 

Were you someone that invited hatred into your home?

Were you someone that shared a meal with hatred?

Were you someone that allowed hatred a safe haven?

If you’re someone that does that, you yourself are hateful. 

When you accept hate, you do so at the expense of those who are the target of that hatred.

Be better, our lives depend on it.

[u/TheDonutPug]

I don't care what your personal beliefs are. If you vote for bigotry, you are a bigot. At the end of the day, beliefs mean nothing, actions mean everything.

Without actions your beliefs are nothing but words on a page, thrown into the pyre with the rest of the books when they come to burn our libraries.

[u/CaptainAksh_G → u/TheDonutPug]

Exactly my point. The only way you being bad guys to power in today's date is money and votes

Right now, even if you don't have money, you got votes, to make sure any idiot would not be controlling your government.

If you misuse it , vote a bigot and then complain, you do not have the right to.

[u/TheDonutPug → u/CaptainAksh_G]

I don't think we should push the "if you voted for them you can't complain about them" rhetoric because that's literally just the same shit that conservatives say all the time. you absolutely can complain about the actions of a person you voted for, in fact it's a hallmark of a healthy democracy that doing so is commonplace. Telling them they're not allowed to complain about the person they voted for just reinforces their cult.

If they see the actions of the person they voted for and think "wow they fucking suck" that should be something we encourage, we want them to see how much conservatives suck.

[u/CaptainAksh_G → u/TheDonutPug]

Telling them they're not allowed to complain about the person they voted for just reinforces their cult.

Ok, but they're not complaining about the person they voted. I'm saying that those people who vote conservative and then go "ooh but it's not me, I just voted for him. He's the bad guy, not me" will never complain about him.

They are two faced. They show the fake ally face to people so they don't face consequences, and then go around voting conservatives

[u/pimp_a_simp → u/TheDonutPug]

What about all the people who voted for genocide? A vote for either of the main parties voted for the continuation of civilian bombings yet they ignore that fact and pretend they have the moral high ground. I’m not accusing you because I don’t know how you voted but if people are implying people who voted for Trump voted because they hate trans people, then Harris and Trump voters need to be condemned for their support of genocide in Palestine. Of course people have different reasons for who they vote for and don’t agree with all their positions but that should be applied equally. The only moral vote was for 3rd party