What Queer Really Means: What you must know to understand Drag Queen Story Hour, trans women in women's sports, and queering your kids in schools.
Queer is not about being gay. Queer is a political act of rebellion against capitalism.
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We’ve previously discussed how the woke left uses language as their greatest weapon. They speak in code, so in order to understand what their language really means, you have to listen to it in context in their presentations to understand what their true definition is.
Today, we’re going to see another example of that.
Let’s talk about the term queer.
Queer used to be a slur against gay people, so might be easy to assume that to be queer is to be gay, a lesbian, bisexual, etc. You could also apply it to trans people.
But here’s the problem: When the queer activists “reclaimed” the word, they also changed the definition.
Being “queer” as they define it has nothing to do with being gay or trans - they just use that to make you think they care about gay or trans people.
Instead, they perceive being queer as a political act of rebellion against the system.
And that system is capitalism.
I do weekly (and sometimes more often) streams on my YouTube channel where we watch real socialists to learn what they say in their presentations when they think they are just talking to their friends. It is extremely illuminating on what the ideology is and what they believe.
The other day for Socialism Saturday, we had a Queer Marxism Marathon that gave us so many beautiful clips to show precisely how the trans activists define queer, in their own words.
Let me walk you through the clips most relevant to the definition of queer.
At the beginning of the presentation, I guessed that we would not get a definition of queer…but I noted that I thought queer would be anything that goes against the norm.
My reasoning for this is that the four goals of the woke left are always and forever the same:
Gain as much power as possible
Use that power to destabilize the system by causing problems
Attack capitalism by blaming it as the cause of the problems they caused when they destabilized the system
Usher in their Marxist utopia after they undermine faith in capitalism
Because the four goals of the woke left are always the same, and everything they do is designed to meet one of those four goals, I figured that the definition of the term “queer” would have to do with their desire to destabilize the system by causing problems that undermine “normativity.”
And that definition turned out to be pretty dead on.
Every activist we heard from that waffled around a definition of the term queer said more or less the same thing: Queer is a political act.
Being queer is not about being gay.
It was at one time. But when they reclaimed the word, they changed the definition.
The woke left do this with language all the time, change the definitions of common words so they can use it to their advantage. It’s why white supremacy really means capitalism.
Let me prove it:
This is a clip from a book launch called The Queer Left from 2021 in which one man describes dancing and doing porn as a rebellion:
“…dancing, sex work, pornography became a way of expressing my radical position within the world, my desire to live a queer life, my desire to live a non-corporate life a non-assimilated life…”
I provide additional commentary on the full clip in this video. It’s one of the best examples that I’ve seen of them talking about the quiet part out loud.
Then we met Queer Marxist Violet in a launch for the book Transgender Marxism. And Violet said the quiet part out loud too:
“If queer is not merely an identity but as the Mary Nardini gang point out the qualitative position of opposition two presentations of stability and a total rejection of the regime of the normal we can understand queer is a total rejection of the regime of the normal”
“…We can understand queer and trans fugitivity as precisely a mode of illegalist resistance that is targeted by the apprentices of normalization.“
I provide additional commentary on the full clip in this video.
And do you know what else Queer means?
A rejection of capitalism.
Remember, the four goals of the woke left are always and forever:
Gain as much power as possible
Destabilize the system
Attack capitalism
Usher in their Marxist utopia
Changing the definition of queer to reject the normal was the first step - that allowed them to destabilize the system.
Now, they have to use that destabilization to attack capitalism.
Hear it from Violet’s mouth:
“…what we wanted to do instead was flip the script altogether instead of seeing the trans subjectivity was rooted in a desire to do away with one's body we wanted to suggest inverse that dysphoria is nothing but the howl of the body's anguish against this appropriation by situation and his insertion into the capitalist mode of production.”
I provide additional commentary on the full clip in this video.
And if you’re still not convinced about that capitalism bit, please allow the moderator of the panel Violet was on spell it out for you:
“I think your book's blurb is very clear that in order to achieve transgender Liberation…abolishing capitalism is…these things cannot happen separate from one another“
Anytime you think of the word queer, you have to remind yourself that it’s not about being gay or trans.
It is a political act of rebellion against the system, specifically so they can use it to undermine capitalism.
When you understand that, you will understand why they are doing the crazy things they are, from Drag Queen Story Hour to trans women in women’s sports, to queering your kids in school.
It’s not about creating a more fair and just society for all.
It’s about gaining power and destabilizing the system so they can attack capitalism and usher in their Marxist utopia.
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I have younger staff at work calling themselves queer. University types. I have a lot of communicating to do.
Good work. Infuriatingly so. Who do these people think they are???