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Sahara Chowdhury

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“For right wingers and moderates, the way the current social system funnels lgbts into coerced prostitution and sexual slavery is not social degeneracy and nor a strike on a sensitive issue— but the marriage rights of lgbt people is social degeneracy and a strike on a sensitive issue, because their purpose and their goal is precisely to keep relationships that do not produce children relegated purely within the domain of exploitative prostitution and temporary flings rather than long term families.”
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“Hijra people, sometimes celebrated as tax collectors, were in a position akin to Jewish bankers in medieval Europe, funneled into a tokenized role. It was not acceptance, it was ghettoization. This historical arrangement is similar to the status quo we find ourselves trapped in today, where married closeted politicians and businessmen lead double lives, who exploit lower-class LGBT prostitutes in secret while publicly upholding the very laws that make that exploitation possible.”
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“This system has gone on since the feudalist era. Call us ghetuputro or hijra or koti or whatever you want, at the end of the day the result is the same, LGBTs get funneled into prostitution due to lack of legal rights.”
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“The lack of lgbt marriage rights incentivizes parents to throw out their queer children, funnels these homeless children into prostitution, how it causes lgbt relationships to be short lived and transactional, causes trans people to be abandoned by their cis partners. Causes institutional problems due to lack of relationship acknowledgement.”
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“The funniest thing about traditionalists who are pro-natalists trying to frame transgender people as corporate-invention consumers of medicines is that you can frame those cishets as corporate-invention consoomers who are making the act of creating babies a huge part of their identity and in the process are tricked into consoooming more and more resources and are tricked into spending money to uh buy things. Its bullshit, just like framing trans people as slaves of consumer culture is bullshit. But two can play at that game.”
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“When invisibility and safe space queer people as their life-support embrace: queers who are inherently visible are seen by them as life-threat, risible, deserving of condemnation, scorn, fear. To preserve their cherished “safety” so dear. Lest the masses be reminded that they do indeed exist, much to their dismay. Thus: the girly faggot, the manly dyke, Also the tranny- they come to dislike. And thus they blame their oppression onto those wretches, ones who suffer the most too. That's how we cannibalize each other. And that's the way how brother kills brother.”
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“Bigotry will forever exist, you will always hear slurs. You will often need to fight physically. This is unavoidable. The point of legal rights is to give you the slightest chance of survival. Of course it won't solve all your problems. Of course your parents won't say they'll love you forever no matter what like some cheesy Hollywood movie. The point of legal rights is to give you a lifeline to hold as you drown, of course it's not a magical solution to all of your problems. But it needs to exist just for that”
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“Trying to strategically self-censor pre-emptively for political purposes is a fool’s endeavour because”
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“Homosexual Marriage Versus Pedophiles by Sahara Chowdhury”
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“Before elaborating on this idea one must point out that all capitalists who benefit from capitalism may not consciously understand that they are stealing the surplus value of labor from the workers. So when we speak of the purpose behind anti-LGBT rhetoric, the question will arise: “Do you really think all homophobes and transphobes calculated all of this? That they carry around this nefarious scheme?” And the answer is the same as it is with capitalists: even if they don’t understand the intricacies of the oppressive system they're benefitting from by exploiting people, their perpetuation of that system still makes them complicit in its injustice.”
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“So we arrive at the question: what is the purpose of homophobia and transphobia? There is, of course, the general purpose of all bigotry, to make society as hierarchical as possible so that the working person feels a semblance of control and power by imagining other working class people in a social station beneath him and comes to view his own station beneath capitalists as only a natural product of the world. To make exploitation of the labor of the lower class minority identities easier, such as the enslavement of black people. Or the wage gap between cis women and cis men, and lower yet wages for trans men and trans women. The purpose of bigotry mostly is not genocide, it is exploitation and slavery.”
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“And then there is the matter of forcing and coercing population increase, women are after all, womb machines to capitalists to create future workers and soldiers. The job market must be flooded and the supply of workers must exceed the capitalists’ demand that the wage equilibrium reaches ever lower and thus more profit is generated for the capitalists. Thus the infertile cis women are treated with a violence and disregard almost nearing that of society's treatment of transgender women — for neither can give birth. And thus domestic relationships that do not produce children are condemned. But of course, sexual temporary queer relationships are allowed by the system, one which people are systemically prevented from dwelling on. This is not a new phenomenon. A similar dynamic perpetuated under feudalism, often misguidedly glorified as “tolerance.” Yes, same-sex desire was sometimes tolerated but only so under a brutal condition: you had to marry heterosexually and produce legitimate heirs, especially if you had laid claim to divine blood to justify kingship. Your queer desires could be indulged in only with disposable prostitutes and concubines who held no legal or social claim.”
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“We must apply a simple theory from cybernetics created by Stafford Beer: “The purpose of a system is what it does.” As he stated, there is "no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do.” The purpose of a system is not what its creators or proponents say it does in paper, but what it does in reality. What does the anti-LGBT system do? Does it stop the sexual activities of LGBT people? If it does, how come there is a disproportionately large amount of LGBT prostitutes? What does denying a group of people anti-discrimination laws at educational institutions, workplace, medical institutions do? What does denying them marriage rights do? A child gets bullied for wanting to grow out its hair and look like a girl, it gets beaten by its teachers and classmates, its academic performance suffers. In a world where children are investments for the future of their parents, it is shaping up to be a sunk cost. What of marriage? Marriage is a form of investment into accessing connections, social capital and actual capital for the family. No marriage rights for LGBT people means no benefit to be gained from the child after it grows up on that angle too. So what happens is you pull out of bad investments. The child gets thrown out of home. The child has no access to education and thus no access to jobs. We glorify Hijra communes in our country, yes? Post-colonialists and decolonisers love to do so. The child, now homeless, goes to these hierarchical communes, and what happens when a community living in destitute, with no education nor jobs, has to resort to begging or prostitution, and prostitution pays so much more for the children? What happens when the rich men come down with money in their bags? What happens to the child? It. Gets. Raped. This, to the capitalists, is not a bug, it is the feature of the anti-LGBT system, the very purpose, to create for them an ever-disposable supply of young flesh to abuse. After all, these prostitutes don't make it to a very old age due to medical discrimination. They have no access to institutionally legitimized relationships, so their partner can not consent to life saving surgeries when they're unable to. They often due to the taboo perpetuated by the ruling class are kept secret from society by their partner and when they fall ill, do not even get a visit on their deathbed. And thus the older prostitutes die off to make place for the new ones. Thus keeps on eating ouroboros its tail. But worry not, true believers! Liberals will surely destroy this material exploitation that benefits the ruling class by using cultural terms for transgender people. Surely, calling us marginalized gender instead of transgender will remove the incentive of the ruling class to deny us legal rights! Surely, calling the child prostitute a performer or entertainer instead of a child prostitute will fix the issue they won't even acknowledge to exist there!”
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“While gays are denied marriage rights due to not being reproductive, marriage's endgoal remains to maintain reproduction. Ideologies that are against letting homosexuals legally marry will inevitably allow child marriage and marital rape of cis girls and women and the pederasty and coerced prostitution of queers. Women are treated as reproductive properties. Due to this, rape is less a violation of the victim's body and more a trespassing onto the father's or the husband's property. Under this mindset, marital rape can not exist because the husband is the property owner and cannot trespass his own property, child marriage is acceptable as long as the child can birth babies because that's the condition of marriage being fulfilled. And because un-reproductive bodies are not marriageable, the femboys and trans women become un-rape-able even when they're funneled into prostitution as children and violated and penetrated against consent. By maintaining medical discrimination the ruling class ensures the early deaths of these prostitutes to keep the supply of flesh forever young and maintain the lack of life long formation of attachments. While the first world legalizes Igbt marriage, it utilizes NGOs and liberal intellectuals in the third world to argue against Igbt marriage rights due to depending on the labor of third worlds. As well as incentivizing third world queers to acquiesce to getting human trafficked by sex trafficking rings to first world countries hoping for freedom from bigotry.”
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“But won't homosexual marriage rights reinforce the patriarchal institution of marriage?" I'm glad you asked! But no, it won't. Marriage is patriarchal due to it being designed as a ritual of reproduction. Reproduction legitimizes child marriage as long as the child bride gives birth. It legitimizes marital rape. Because gay relationships do not reproduce, marriage which for lgbts would be a ritual of social acknowledgement- actually subverts patriarchal values. Whereas without marriage, in secrecy lgbt relationships affirm patriarchal assignment of queers within the realm of secret hookups and prostitution. Saying marriage is capitalistic and patriarchal so gays shouldn’t get marriage rights is like saying "the state exists to protect capital so socialists shouldn’t want a socialist state".”
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“The reason the lgbt issue can't be fixed with a similar approach to cis people's issue is because cis people are not mostly comprised of prostitutes and clients, and lgbt people are mostly comprised of prostitutes and clients. So while "most reported sexual violence comes from the family members" applies to cis people, it wouldn’t apply to lgbt people whose suffered violence is coming on a great level from pimps and clients who view them as lesser than family — as well as the abuse of prostitutes generally being underreported and when reported under-documented. Liberals will see all of this, and they'll say "Well, how about you teach parents not to throw their queer children out and teach queers to not abandon their partners". In this, they forego critique of problems created by policies and laws to offer individualist solutions. Instead of changing the policies that cause this. Change the individual they say, because systems are just by individuals, and they ignore mentioning which class of individuals make these rules and laws. Which class of individuals with proclivity to be rapists and pederasts enjoy the benefits of homeless queer children desperate for money. And this is why I don't have any option but violence, because the liberals refuse to be honest.”
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“John F. Kennedy was an evil man who committed genocide on communists. But he, in his self-awareness, understood one thing: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” Whenever feminists mention that women are 50% of the population, they're really making an appeal to utilitarianism for women's rights. Which is fine and well. Minorities, of course, failing to rely on such a percentage, for their rights need to make a different sort of appeal to utilitarianism. The one in which utilitarianism needs to bend to their needs not out of the whims of the majority but rather for the safety of the majority, which must be jeopardised by the minority until the attainment of such goals.”
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“Although 1) it has been documented that many trans prostitutes begin their profession as underage sex trafficked kids, a lot of papers or news articles frame trans prostitution as something they do to "affirm their gender". Thus the exploitation is framed as salaciousness, a mimicry of cis women's exploitation rather than genuine exploitation. Even when it's literal homeless trans children being trafficked. 2) And when the murder rate of trans prostitutes are brought up, people say shit like "well what if the trans women were only killed because they were pretending to be cis." Handwaving away violence with a theoretical what if... Both points remove the pity reserved for cis prostitutes from trans prostitutes by framing their exploitation and abuse as a personal choice. Although trans prostitution is an entire industry, although transgender porn is willingly sought out by people online to the point it's the second highest sought out category and the consumers of those porn are doing it knowingly— these two framing of trans prostitutes as enjoyers of their own subjugation and deceivers of their exploiters helps absolve their clients of responsibility. It's ridiculous to pretend that an entire sex industry is built on deception of the clients, that an entire people trapped in a caste system are purely trapping themselves in said system out of perverse enjoyment of their own suffering. And yet these two points must the liberals and conservatives hold onto as crutch because otherwise they would have to deal with the contradictions of how society frames trans women (undesirable, privileged) versus their material reality (lusted after, exploited).”
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“When in Western countries LGBT people have rights and non-Western countries’ LGBT population demands rights, then we are told, “LGBTs are Western culture,” and when the West takes away the rights of their LGBT communities, we are told, “Even the West doesn’t have LGBT rights, how can it be in Bangladesh?” It is their thought process that is centred around the Western ruling class, not my thought process. Free, free Palestine. Death to America. Death to Israel. The Western ruling class used to segregate black and white people 60 years ago, and enslaved them 200 years ago. Black people earned their rights through struggle and blood. So would any dumbass claim black civil rights is “western hegemony”? So the LGBT rights for which Harvey Milk was murdered, Marsha Johnson and Sylvie Rivera gave their lives for — why is it called western hegemony? Western right-wingers call our rights “cultural marxism,” and certain intellectuals in our country call our rights “ western hegemony”— that’s the extent of their cultural hegemony. Gramsci had mentioned hegemony in relation to the ruling class, as I care not for Western hegemony — neither do I respect Bengali feudalistic theocratic hegemony. Some even call our marriage rights “heteronormative”, which is like calling black people’s rights to vote “whitero-normative”.”
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“Reiterating my point once more, there has been a recent research that found the right wing conservative American states with the most amount of anti-transgender laws also have the most amount of searches for transgender pornography. A lot of people found this funny or hypocritical. But really, there is no hypocrisy in this. What is the consequence of anti-transgender laws? The transgender kids get thrown out of home, they can't access education without bullying, they can't get jobs. What's the consequence of that? They turn to prostitution, becoming porn actors, and concubinism. So really, conservatives are simply maintaining their supply chain of vulnerable trans people to abuse. The purpose of a system is what it does, and this is the system they've built. Like I always say, right wingers don't want to eradicate trans people completely, just like they don't want to eradicate cis women or black people. They want trans people in the lower station in the pyramid of hierarchy. They want trans people to live as sex objects without any legal recognition of marriage or institutional recognition and die after being abused and exploited. Eradicating cis women, black people, and trans people would mean right wingers can not exploit them any longer, right wingers just want to deny them legal rights to keep exploiting them. And that's worse.”
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“It's interesting that like conservatives, liberals too maintain a social hierarchy. Whereas conservatives' social hierarchy is based on who deserves more oppression, the liberal's social hierarchy is based on who deserves more liberation. They cite how "even women don't have all the rights" whenever lgbt rights are brought up. A pyramid of hierarchy for liberals. At which point in the hierarchy do queers reside? There are always bigger issues than our plight before solving which our rights are impossible to acquire so surely this implies a laundry list. Imagine if American liberals began listing off how women — half the population of America — didn’t have all the rights every time the Black people fought for their rights in the civil rights era because after all, black people were merely 10 percent of the population while ignoring the existence of black women. Liberals' approach to lgbt people is for us to assume the role of an unseemly but non-malignant tumor on the body of society rather than being an actual organ. But at the end, non-malignant tumors are cut off just to maintain aesthetics.”
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“Do you know why charities and ngos, even when people at the top weren’t swindling the money for themselves — never substantially improved transgender lives? In the context of Bangladesh where most trans people are funneled into slums and ghettos without marriage rights as prostitutes denied family having to rely on each other to survive? A vulnerable community specifically isolated into a patch of housing environment? Let's say you're a slum lord. And these trans people suddenly get money from charities. You as a slum landlord are not going to let them spend it on themselves. You're going to raise the fucking rent. And it's easy for you to raise the rent specifically for trans people rather than both trans and cis people because the trans people are all huddled into the same living environment. So you see how it is? A community gets specifically targeted charity but it doesn’t do jack because the community is isolated and converged into the same space rather than being allowed to assimilate into society through institutions like marriage. And so the transgender whore still ends up having to sell its body for rent and food, because the house always wins.”
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“Are you familiar with the concept of endless war, son? the defining characteristics are: 1) Unclear objectives: goals are vague (as in "defeating terrorism") rather than specific measurable targets. 2) Inability to win: a lack of capacity to achieve stated aims, yet no risk of outright defeat. 3) Lack of exit strategy: no defined endpoint or plan for withdrawal. 4) Protracted nature: lasts for years or decades with ongoing low-intensity engagement. Endless wars are by design endless and exist to generate profit for capitalists through perpetual conflict. Often we've seen how the enemy fought by the imperialistic American military is funded by American government itself. Terrorists are not even their enemies but simple playmates. Now scale these geopolitical conflicts down. Think about how NGO queer leaders work in Bangladesh. 1) They have no objectives, their goal is never to win any legal rights or changing policies. 2) They themselves are defeatist and always act like they're on the losing side and yet not perish, they can not win and nor can they lose. 3) They have no goals such as achieving any laws or queer marriage rights and as such they lack an endpoint. 4) Due to this, aimlessly they work on keeping the lower class queer population hooked on drip-fed charity, their tactics are low intensity to the point of refusing to even use words like gay or transgender while working for these people. NGOs are leading an endless conflict with queer lives. they have no plan for achieving marriage rights or any other rights. Their goal is. Endless. Conflict. Without an end. To secure funding. These institutions can't end the injustices they claim to fight because resolving those injustices would make them extinct. They oppose marriage rights because it is a goal. They cannot have a goal. They can only gesture vaguely at "basic rights" whenever legal marriage rights are brought up. They cannot let you have peace much like war profiteers because your misery is what feeds them. The conservatives are not even their enemies, but simple playmates.”
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“Let's talk about how shallow anticonsumerism rhetoric gets used against marginalized communities. Now, let me preface this saying: images of socialist icons such as Che Guevara are mass produced on merchandises in sweatshops, Soviet Union hats are mass produced and sold in sweatshops— does that mean socialism is inherently a bourgeoisie ideology? Obviously, no, even an idiot knows that. Capitalism subsumes all aesthetics and symbols. This is known. Religious artifacts are mass produced too. Now are all muslims inherently consumerists and bourgeoisie because corporations mass produce products with stars and crescents and ottoman aesthetics and some muslims buy them? Obviously, no, once again! But then, some intellectual morons accuse the lgbt community of being consumerist soft-capitalists (a meaningless term) because sweatshops produce rainbow flags too and some lgbt people buy these mass produced merchandise. They claim they are not against men fucking men but they're against the various “lgbt labels”, because they claim the labels were invented to sell products targeted to these identities, which again is a moronic fucking claim. No, the labels needed to exist because an oppressed group of people who deal with intense illegalization and denial of rights (often even denied from participation in modes of production to even be considered part of the proletariat and thus forced to be lumpen prostitutes and criminals left historically ignored in socialist nations) need a shared identity to build solidarity for each other. Of course capitalism capitalizes on the identity of the homosexual and transgender, it capitalizes on all fucking identities, this does not mean people of these identities thus become “bourgeoise” or that even most people of these identities even buy such merchandise. So to say that a community is bourgeoisie when most of them are poor and they're killed not only in the global south but also in the west is an inhumane fucking thing to do.”
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“Let's about transsexuals. Trans people who takes hormones to ease their sense of dysphoria is condemned by these scholarly fuckturds for being “consumerist”, some point out various injustices in the creation of hormonal medicines to condemn it altogether and declare it unnatural. Motherfucker everything from polio vaccines to abortion to the understanding of anatomy has dark histories of abused marginalized people in them. Does this mean you'll reject these technologies that have already been developed? Do you reject medicines for the cold or glasses for your eyes because blind people didn't have access to this technology before and thus it's unnatural to use it now? Secondly, there are trans people, chemists or people with chemical knowledge, who produce their own hormones without buying from corporations. Tell me, are you fine with hormones created without corporate ties or do you think those trans people are “brainwashed” by the “big pharma” as well to sell more “products” and thus are deserving of condemnation? Are you against state produced estrogen and testosterone in socialist nations like Cuba that are beginning to stop fucking over trannies too? Or do you think trannies in socialist countries are brainwashed by the big pharma too?”
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“Those self-identified "queer grassroot leaders" calling for restrain and secrecy in lgbt activism and decrying people speaking out without consulting them— or general intellectual/politician horde, often identifying themselves as leftists , do not apply actual proper class analysis but remain stuck in playing a form of identity politics. For them, owning private property is not an signifier of class but rather aesthetics are— the openly queer people attempting open nonsecret bold activism become "privileged" not due to ownership of private property or by exploiting others' labor but due to the social conventions they break — due to contradicting these people or being rude to them. Openly queer people are assumed to be rich and thus above the law by them — rather than being openly queer because they have nothing to lose. Class reductionism done right is better than the form of identity politics which they play.”
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“Openly queer people advocating for legal rights are framed as "privileged" and "doing more harm than good" for the queer collective. Anyone breaking social conventions are framed as individualists and since asking for lgbt rights is breaking social conventions, thus the queer activists are individualists and individualism is a very very very no good bad bad word, saar. However, the downlow queer activists or leaders who call for secrecy and restrain are not promoting active collectivism. They're promoting passive collectivism, passive collectivism which seeks to not make waves but help individuals within the community through charity and access to resources. Which ironically enough can be called a form of individualism itself — queer individuals are getting help through charity— but the system that denies them legal rights collectively is not confronted. For the bourgeoisie, the hierarchy-based society is what grants them power and privilege — and for the proletariat, the hierarchy is the cause of their suffering. Herein lies the contradiction of bourgeois charity — if the goal of charity is to alleviate suffering, then charity must dismantle the hierarchy rather than reinforce it — but that would require the bourgeoisie to act against their class interest — thus bourgeois charity is self-contradictory and can never alleviate suffering in any meaningful way but only exist to reinforce the status quo by being a tool of dominance-assertion for the ruling class which simultaneously frames them as “good people”. And thus passive collectivism is a form of individualism.”
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“I could try to argue that I am attempting to mobilise the community toward collective action as an individual and that even if my actions end up hurting the collective as it always does when lgbt controversy goes viral — that in the long term it will do more good by alleviating systemic oppression and the queer activists now are thinking of short term "good". But that would be rebutted with a simple "ah but you will fail to change legal policies, and so there will only be short term harm without long term good". In this case, I would not have any particular argument to provide in order to moralize my actions. And thus I would simply accept accusations of amorality and privilege as a part of what I am and what I do. I will simply identify myself as a knowingly harmful privileged element. The question is what's next? What can you sniveling fuckwads do after that — beyond having me arrested or killing me? I accept death. I have walked into places as bombs were being thrown. I have walked toward gunfires with nothing but bricks in my hands. I have been beaten and raped as a joke. What can you do to me that has not been done? Mine is the privilege of being Death incarnate. I moralize none of my actions— I ask no pity for what might happen to me. I preach violence for the sake of violence— conflict for the sake of conflict— whether it's sustainable or effective does not matter to me. My complete agency and its negative consequences I fully accept. Cower before my omnipotence and repent.”
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“The problem that is happening now is that these fringe political groups are framing themselves as ordinary people. They are not ordinary people. The ordinary people were here all day. They did nothing. They are not against us. If they make any public statement against us, it will be because of pressure from those political parties — because they have to live here. If they go against the political party, the party has state power. The party will come and demolish their stalls. So the point is that ordinary people are not against us. I was interacting with ordinary people all day. Ordinary people did nothing. The ones who are against us are a few lifeless, subhuman people, people like animals. Their job is to establish fascism. And the fact that they have started this recently — they got this from the West too. In the West as well, there wasn’t much major opposition to transgender people for a long time. After 2016, Ben Shapiro, Michael Walsh — these kinds of Zionists, these Israel-supporting people — started speaking against transgender people. Meanwhile we can see that transgender and gay people in Western countries have united and stood against their aggression, spoken against their imperialism, worked against Israel’s genocide of Palestinian people. There is Queer for Palestine. There are many groups like this. These people in the West carry on their work. But here in Bangladesh, right-wingers like Sarwar Hossain (Sorowar Hossain) — when Trump speaks against transgender people, when Michael Walsh speaks against transgender people, when their driving forces speak against transgender people, they don’t notice that these same people defend Israel. These same people carry out genocide in Palestine, carry out genocide in UNRWA. Then they take the side of these genocidal imperialists and say — "well, since they speak against transgender people, they must be good.”
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“Politicians (like Sarjis Alam) often present "conversion therapy" as an answer to lgbt people. This of course is to sate rich parents who worry their children might be lgbt and as a result suffer bigotry. Conversion therapy will of course only be accessible to the rich. Poor people won't be able to afford institutionally torturing their children under guise of therapy. So in the present dynamic in which lower class visibly queer lgbts are funneled into prostitution and rich people who are closeted exploit them — conversion therapy acts as a course correction or safeguard for lgbt people born to rich parents who may rebel against this social dynamic in their youth and come out of closet. Thus conversion "therapy" is used to torture them until they agree to get back to closet and dance to the tune of status quo and be one of those miserable closeted cishet-married middle aged people cheating on their partner— and this therapy/torture is a social symbol of repentance/redemption from their "temporary corruption by the lgbt agenda". Thus conversion therapy is offered to rich parents as an alternative to lgbt rights, and it appeals to them because civil rights for lgbts would apply to all classes — meanwhile conversion therapy is an exclusive "solution" to the rich.”
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“On a class interest level, the hijra underling and the transgender are not opponents— but the hijra guruma and the transgender are in class conflict and are opponents. Transgenderism introduces an idea of gender deviancy in this region that does not require submission to an authority or leadership figure like the guruma. Because the guruma exploits the underling's money from begging and selling them into sexual contracts (with the client base often extending to India), on an existential level the idea of gender-deviants not flocking together and instead trying to establish their legal rights/ability to perpetuate life outside the hijra system is a threat to gurumas' labor capital. [This does not mean transgenderism without trans rights would end trans people's funneling toward sex work, it would simply either 1) make them their own solicitor or more likely 2) make a pimp who is not the guruma the solicitor, which nonetheless destabilizes their power] Of course there are "good" gurumas, as there are feudal lords who maybe personally a "good" person, but on a systemic level the hijra caste is not sustainable in a way that does not leave the underlings traumatized and exploited. And people who can not think systemically and are hooked on addlepated micro-narratives will be offended at the suggestion. Whereas the Awami League constitutional framing of hijra as an "intersex" identity is ahistorical and many hijra guruma want a form of legal recognition that recognizes it as an identity adjacent profession (in simpler term a caste and their goal being to legally perpetuate this caste due to their benefit incentive), the transgender identity if legally recognized would be so outside this caste system. The hijra legal recognition right now does not really fully benefit even the gurumas as it limits the definition to "intersex" (and only the ones whose genitalia are variant, not the chromosomal or hormone variant ones) so on a legal basis most of them are not covered by it, although the gurumas can still use this to control their commune members by reporting to cops of the ones trying to leave the hijra system without forsaking their gender presentation as "fake hijras", which the legal definition of hijras as intersex would get the hypothetical underling in trouble cause the cops will be checking the underling's genitals rather than the wealth-backed gurumas'. Fuckass libshits will frame this as a colonial individualism (trans) versus traditional collective (hijra) issue, rather than a non-feudal identity versus feudal identity or non-labor-exploitative versus labor-exploitative issue.”
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“There are ones who view trans women as predatory men, and ones who view trans women as privileged past men who lost their privilege and "became" something closer to women. Transphobia is viewed by them as a byproduct of misogyny seeking to subjugate wombyns rather than its own construct used to specifically subjugate and exploit trans people. Thus transitioning and all the violence trans people face associated with transitioning is not for trans people to own but for wombyns to own. This is a framing almost of a criminal who has been captured and disgraced, is to be pitied now for that disgrace, but there may still be in him the qualities that drove him to banditry. The reason I say I'm gay man now is because they view gay men as having power over women and being male privileged. And it is better to be viewed as possessing of more power than less, because the liberals' approach to marginalized communities is not to allocate power, but to remind them that they're powerless and should bow and kneel in accordance.”
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“Liberals preach on about their empathy, they've turned empathy into a weapon — not against oppressors but against the oppressed. Their opposition to homophobia and transphobia is a controlled opposition. They will say you too deserve empathy, that you too are human, that they feel sorrow at your plight — but they're the vultures of sorrow. Their sorrow exists only to assert their humanity, but does not transmute into legal change. Their intention is not legal change nor doing any actual improvement beyond charity for lgbt people— it is to maintain the conditions which creates the necessity for charity. Their empathy is a jackboot.”
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“More queers in Bangladesh have died from lack of systemic legal recognition and the lack of civil rights than they have died from hate crimes for advocating for their civil rights. Queers die from hate crimes in countries with lgbt friendly laws too. The only difference is Bangladeshis use the deaths of Xulhaz and his partner as the unending sob story and scareshow instead of keeping on fighting. Do I come across as crass? Do I seem disrespectful to the weight of their deaths? Because their deaths have already been made weightless by people who used it as an excuse to give up the fight. Anyway Bangladeshi lgbts who seek to apply for asylum abroad probably have a vested interest in keeping the country's anti-lgbt laws unchanged, just saying.”
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“The problem with queer people is that a lot of them think they're an inherently liberated people. It’s the notion that queerphobia exists simply as a tool to keep women in their station under patriarchy rather than something that exists to directly exploit queers and keep queers in their station as well. For queers to acknowledge that society has a station for them is to accept that they're not free agents and it scares them. They would prefer imagining that the brothels or the underworld network they inhabit is somehow separated from the status quo, but they're part of the status quo, that is your station. You're not free by choosing not to be in a family, by choosing not to be in a heterosexual relationship. Even the nature of your homosexual relationship is dictated by capital. When you're taking the role of a sugar baby, when you're being a prostitute or concubine, when you're visibly queer but your partner keeps you secret and it reduces your chances of survival — that's all dictated by capital. It's not a coincidence, you don't belong to a parallel power, the underground network isn’t parallel power, your relationships are not a product of a parallel structure, it's part of state and capital, you're not a destabilizing force just by existing, you're still a part of this structure. Your continuous life or mere existence if you're lgbt actually IS NOT a middle finger to the status quo in itself. People say existence is resistance as a fucking cope to compensate for their impotency. Because the ruling class only acts like they want you dead. They actually don't. They want instead for you to suffer perpetually. They want you to exist, but barely, beneath their feet in the social hierarchy, so they can feel like they're above someone else. So they can feel like they're better, so they can continue to exploit you. If your whole community died, if all the marginalized people died, these people wouldn’t know what to do with themselves, they would have to create divides within themselves just to stand on the top of someone else. Your mere existence, such is why, is not revolutionary in itself— until you start doing activities that can directly destabilize their foothold on the pyramid of social hierarchies.”
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“Nothing incurs more disgust and loathing in me more than the term "safe space"— be it for race, religion, women or lgbts. Ritualized and institutionalized cowardice and performative fragility. Fascism comes to Bangladesh under the guise of creating safe spaces. There is no greater joke for Bangladeshi lgbt peoplSpaces the phrase "safe space". You can have no safe space in a nation which laws criminalize you, disallows you from having marriage or civil union rights, disallows your loved one the consent to put you on life support or bury you. Safe space is then a boiling water at best which cooks you and you can not tell because the flames are out of your sight. The only real safety is in the weapon of your hand. You must reject the illusion of safe spaces. You must reject incremental change. It has to be accelerationism on either direction. It's a fucking joke seeing cowardly senior lgbt leaders unironically trying to fearmonger against the idea of lgbts coming out of the closet and demanding legal rights despite knowing how many lgbt people closeted and out of closet were out there in the streets during July already acquainted with the bloodbath and now don't even have any future social or legal security to mentally recover from it or find a sense of normalcy through a domestic life that their straight and cis counterparts have and thus have no reason to fear loss of life or violence. I have stood against people with guns and bombs, what fear do I have against blades? What do I have to look forward to — other than either domesticity or death? "Safe spaces" for liberals to hang out in without any specific goals give them an inert impotent private outlet for their energy that could've been better utilized in disruptive public actions. Due to conservative aggression and taboos they operate on pure superego in public, and in safe spaces as compensation, they revert to pure id. In either spaces their ego is unutilized. As a result, because safe spaces are always compromised, they end up looking that much like clowns when they're exposed in public. Safe spaces are the fascism's carrot to fascism's stick.”
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“Hope can be a shitty thing sometimes. When you're getting kicked in the belly, sometimes it can stop you from hitting back the person kicking you in the hope your passivity will arouse a sense of sympathy in them and make them stop. That hope is the other side of the fear that hitting the person hitting you will make them hit you more. People talk about crippling dread, but hope can be crippling too. There is the sort of despair that snuffs out all your energy and leaves you a living corpse and there is the type that motivates you into action with the intent of going down swinging. Can't escape despair as much as choose which kind to give yourself into. People talk about how the state of the world should "radicalize your rather than lead you to despair" but you can't get radicalized without being chin deep in despair, honestly. The kind of change the world needs right now can only be brought in by a mass movement of suicidal and desperate working class people ready to go down swinging. But we're all dreaming that things might get better. And we won't do the things that need to be done until we give up on that dream. Until we start to truly, properly despair.”
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“Genocides against queers can never be permanent —but only perpetual— because we don't repopulate like ethnic minorities from ancestors to descendants. Unfortunately this also means we will never have a permanent diaspora. You can't ever move all the queers abroad to a comparatively safe zone or whatever because they will just repopulate the next generation. So the only possible option to leave a better world for the future is improving the ground where you stand on. Because you'll never be able to take all your people away. You will never be Moses. All your people will become enslaved once more, the Pharaoh can never let them go. And so you must kill the Pharaoh.”
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“The other day this guy in a seminar was talking about some "Oh the lgbt culture in America was more radical before they got their rights". Were they? Were they? Rich powerful wankers like fucking FBI head J Edgar Hoover and conservative cuck Roy Cohn were bruising the innards of male survival sex workers in secret orgies back then. What, are you gonna pretend abusive rich paypigs aren’t a fundamental part of queer culture when not having rights are forcing our kids into the streets? And you’ve had armed trannies and gays wearing soviet hats organizing the streets now and even the past two decades there. We're just fucking people dude. We'll be shitty people and good people with or without rights — just the lives of lower class ones would be somewhat fucking easier. And we see now too don't we? Awami League has as many queer supporters as fucking Maoist groups have queer people in them. So what the fuck are you talking about, what the fuck homonationalist crap theories are you waving in front of my face? Fuck your theory.”
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“I've gone at length in my manifesto about how the denial of lgbt marriage rights is killing and putting lgbt people on an early grave systemically. So when our legal rights would require no state funds to be wasted, why are we denied it? Liberals posit that our issues are secondary to anti-imperialism, socialism, feminism and macroeconomics in general —often portraying us as an obstacle to these things even. They condemn the NGO queers, but they never empower the voices of the non-NGO queers. They condemn BAL queers, but never embolden the voices of the queers who fought in the streets in July, supported it intellectually and in the background with resources. They claim queers must remain silent until patriarchy is destroyed and women are at equal standing with men and make no progress in feminism either beyond shallow wins. They claim that queer rights are impossible in a poor country and that queers are all rich while poor queers bear the double burden of class and queerphobia. So the question comes— decades of lgbts prostituting away and dying —and have you managed to make a dent on the American empire? Has socialism been established in your country? Has feminism made strides? Has the economy been bolstered in the absence of lgbt rights as we died like dogs? So, their opposition to queer rights is obviously not rational. And in this irrationality do we find their faith — that if they systemically lavish onto enough of us passive deaths that their cause will be bolstered. As if we are the human sacrifices to the gods of Feminism, Socialism, Economy and Anti-imperialism. No, this is a fine view to have. I'm not critiquing it, merely describing it. So why are their gods not listening to their prayers? I posit this is because queer lives cut short by systemic denial has cheapened our blood and flesh so much that we hold no longer any value as human sacrifices. My suggestion to these leftists and liberals would then be to sacrifice their own family members and children to this cause. Be Agamemnon. Be victorious. And may the knives of the Clytemnestras spare ye.”
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“In times of economical instability, war, disaster or famine— if a particular community in a war-affected society stops being a concern, if oppressing that particular community by the majority of that society starts becoming fine, if killing its people starts being fine because there are bigger problems, because the majority killing the minority are themselves under threat from a different global superpower — then that minority community was never not killable. Liberals frame lgbt marriage rights as utopian, as a luxury item. Lgbts can fight for legal marriage recognition only after all other problems in the world have been solved according to liberals. Even though the lack of it systemically kills us, even though granting it to us would require spending not a single penny of state funds. And this frames lgbt lives as killable in any context other than an utopia. Because in any context other than an utopia our lives are worthless. The conservatives who want to kill lgbt people both when the economy is unstable and even when the economy is stable are more honest about it. Because their hatred is unconditional. Meanwhile the liberals' allyship is conditional. And unconditional hate is superior to conditional care. There is only gleeful butchering and unambiguous solidarity. And either is fine. But the devil's work is what it is done in the middle of that spectrum.”
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“We should care more about changing social values first instead of changing laws that could help the marginalized!" My brother in folly, the only reason you continue to walk on god's green earth is because I want to avoid the legal consequences of killing you with hammers rather than any socially installed values of empathy for people like you. Bangladeshi liberals exhaust me because they identify a problem like child marriage and proceed to say shit like "changing laws has no point, we must dismantle the ideology". No one is going to hear you preach to them. It's not a matter of simple ideology. If a poor family has the option to legally sell their children to a rich man, they will sell their children to a rich man. You need to ban child marriage to make it harder for them to do it. There will still be children slipping through the cracks in the safety net, but your goal is tightening the net, and making sure there's a safety net preventing the marriage at all. You can't simply vaguely gasture at a "dismantling of ideology" one day without taking the most obvious step first. This is a meaningless exercise. We can't stop all of the child marriages but we can stop at least a huge portion of them and we won't take the steps necessary for even that because we have fucking cucked ourselves into uttering buzzwords and phrases like "changing social values is more important than changing laws" without ever actually going anywhere.”
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“In my opinion, one does not truly believe in a cause if one is not prepared to die for it. I'm willing to and have prepared myself to eventually be killed for being lgbt. Most people who want to deny trans people transition facilities, legal recognition or lgbt people the marriage rights are not prepared to die for the cause of denying those things to us, because after all these things don't really directly impact them much. Nonetheless— their belief-less efforts for lgbtphobic causes, often originating from having the same acceptable opinion as the next person, often originating from an attempt to fit in - manages to cause harm due to the majority of their numbers. This is the most depressing aspect of lgbtphobia, a dispassionate disregard is enough to deny you a family of your own. Hence the dispassionate disregard of the upper middle class and rich must be turned into something else. It must be turned into fear. In fact, since I'm trying my best to get killed, if i end up succeeding in finding death, do not present any rhetorics that ask people to sympathize with me, that'd not jive with my edgelord extremist era. Acknowledge that I've made my decisions in sound mind and move on. I make no appeals to the humanity of inhumans.”
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“It's not about whether my existence is ethical, it's not about whether I deserve to exist, it's not about whether religion or science justifies my existence— but that I do exist — and I do seek legal recognition for my marriage and for my decriminalization — and if I can not have it I will destroy everything, and that you can not destroy me in any meaningful way because lgbt people will reappear in your homes the next generation and they will follow my example of destruction, and you cannot have peace and security without granting it to us. I lose members of my community to passive systemic violence that results in their demise in lonely deathbeds left unattended by their closeted partners too scared to come out. It's a mad unjust world and the only sane course of action is to return it with the same unjust madness and disregard for innocent lives it has bestowed on my people. The liberals don't give a shit about us and the leftists see our plight as culture war and the climate change will kill us all in two decades and I can't, in the last few years of my life left to me, after all the violence, after all the fights I fought for this country in July, the life risks I took — I can't even experience a moment of sunset with a husband, sit with him in a park for a picnic, hold his hand in public, rest my head on his shoulder— while the libleft cunts tell me marriage doesn't matter and legalization doesn’t matter while they themselves marry and the leftist dickless spineless gutless worms call the lgbt community consumerist or bourgeoise or colonizers of western hegemony — as the feminists act like trans women were part of patriarchy before transitioning as if we weren't put through psychological, physical and sexual torture since childhood for acting feminine when the concepts of masculinity and femininity weren't even distinct to us and thus it is acceptable to mock and deride us as long as done from a feminist talking point — and there is no political organized fight for my kin— why would I not be angry? My anger or madness is not irrational, it's the state of mind I logically decided to arrive on. I trained myself to think of physical pain as a mere emotion that can be not felt in order to deal with the pain of beatings and stone-peltings and other forms of physical abuse. I am an extremely controlled individual. I do not feel anything that I do not want to feel, I do not think anything that I do not want to think, I have decided under cold consideration, that having left no peaceful methods of furthering or acquiring rights for this people, the only option left is violence and death. We are an endless horde. If we are to be monsters before committing you harm, then we shall be monsters afterwards. If we are marked as the destroyers of your civilization as your civilization crushes us — then we shall fulfill your accusing prophecy.”
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“What I contend with is the burden of agency. The despair in knowing things are not hopeless. I can not say "I must be closeted" or "legal queer rights in Bangladesh are not possible" because I know these things to be false. I know possible are all things that we make them to be. I can not find solace in hopelessness. I can not say "there was nothing I could've done" or "this was beyond my hands" because I know these things to be lies that the powerful also say. If I was murdered or arrested/vanished, my agency properly robbed and I was made truly helpless and incapable of making change— then I could find in my inability to make change some semblance of peace. The self-allowance for rest.”
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“When you organize street protests in Bangladesh, certain people will come over to you, smiling, professing support for your cause, making small talk, asking where you live and what you do. They will suggest you tone your rhetoric down, just a friendly recommendation, to demand less of the state. Otherwise, they say, social chaos may follow, although they support your cause wholeheartedly, mind you. Yet they do not seem quite real. Though they appear as people do, they carry with them something manufactured and hollow, as if a script were speaking through a borrowed face. Give them not a grain of real information. Ask if they work for DGFI. If they say no, ask if they work for the Special Branch or NSI.”
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“There is a man, he goes by Altaf Hossain online. He poses as an Islamic man, he posted pictures carrying bamboo rods in public spaces after August 5th, 2024 claiming to be a July fighter. He is ironically enough a cop, he works for the Special Branch. Part of the state machinery that slaughtered children during July 24, now posing as a voice of the resistance. He threatened to form mobs against me online, he threatened to gang-rape me when I did my hunger strike on the Shaheed Minar. He posts often about wanting to violently murder homosexuals. When I and my friends apprehended him for taking our pictures unconsented, he clasped his hands begging for mercy, began crying and shaking out of fear, provided documentation to prove that he is a cop, perhaps his PTSD from having to deal with student activists in July kicking in. And he came over to me later still in another protest, expecting me to have forgotten his face. Professing himself to be an LGBT ally, he suggested that I beg for more charity and quotas from the state for the “third genders”, rather than marriage rights. These are the same cops and intelligence agencies queer NGOs that preach secrecy and incrementalism work with. Here the intelligence agencies and the intelligentsia agree. Their symbiotic nature comes to light. Our conservatives and our liberals destroy their Shahbagh-Shaplabagh binary in this case.”
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“We’ve seen how Bangladesh has culturally regressed in many aspects compared to the 70s-90s era. With Bangladeshi progressives growing ever meeker as they are brainwashed by bots into thinking the ordinary people are doing things or harbor beliefs that are perpetuated by the right wing and state mechanisms. We’ve seen how DGFI, Special Branch etc are actively maintaining misogyny and homophobia through bots and media manipulation. The more that people argue that Bangladeshi culture isn’t ready for feminism or queer rights (with the assumption that culture is a natural weather pattern that must be waited out rather than being produced by incentives, media, law and political conflict), and that people should wait longer and move slower to get them, the more they ensure that the state would grow more powerful with technological growth and would be able to deter progressives further. With longer wait the more power goes to the enemy. I tried to be a proof of concept by repeatedly showing street Igbt activism can in fact be done and that you can live as Igbt in Bangladesh and “the backwards masses” is a myth reinforced by DGFI, special branches and political parties. If you’re an NGO-queer who doesn’t want their funds to dry up due to legal progress, just say that. If you don’t care about it, just say you don’t care about it. But if you say it’s impossible, then you’re deluded with false-realism.”
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“Liberals are endlessly bewildered, endlessly amused. Why do right wingers keep comparing homosexuality to bestiality and pedophilia? Don’t they understand the difference between consensual sexual acts between adults and rape? Are they so ignorant? Are they so illiterate? So irrational? It is the fault of the country’s education system, surely. It’s very flattering for liberals to imagine homophobes and transphobes to be ignorant or illiterate, rather than accepting that they are simply greedy and use their prejudices against the marginalized as a tool of exploitation... So it’s not really so surprising that right wingers compare normalization of homosexuality to the potential normalization of bestiality. These people do not care about consent, both acts do not result in reproduction, and that’s all that matters to them.”
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“If I go for a “sex work is work” approach, this approach must address the issue of pimps’ exploitation of them and children trapped in sex trafficking. Whenever I demand marriage rights for LGBTs, I also demand ban of marital rape and child marriage as outlined in my manifesto, however I haven’t seen Bangladeshi “sex work is work” crowd address the issues mentioned enough. As documented, even when sex work becomes decriminalized or even licensed, without express LGBT rights, the LGBT prostitutes continue being marginalized and unrecognized, so there is no amount of sex work decriminalization that would directly benefit LGBT prostitutes while our liberals remain too scared to utter the words “transgender” or “homosexual” to include them in their policy suggestions and remain stuck saying words like lingoboichitro to avoid conflict,which due to their vagueness will inevitably be redefined to simply mean “intersex”. If I take the rehabilitation approach, cis gender prostitutes have the option for marriage and building a family. Queer prostitutes don’t have that!”
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