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Why I almost defriended everyone who had an HRC logo as their profile photo this week
It’s becoming increasingly clear to me that, though I didn’t think about this at the time, I probably started a blog because I need somewhere to vent my boundless rage that is not random people’s Facebook walls. I mean, one thing among the many thousands of things that are guaranteed to raise my blood pressure is when folks get all “the internet isn’t real, and it’s not a viable platform for communication,” but also like, Facebook fights are dumb, I’m supposed to be an adult now.
So here’s the thing that got me all het up this week: gay marriage.
Specifically, these goddamn things:
BreakMyRevenge:
I read the Tumblr post above in full. I must say I was shocked. Not by the fact that there are some individuals both in the LGBTE community and in general that have qualms against an organization. There will never be any one organization in which everyone agrees with everything in it’s mission statement/principles. That doesn’t mean you blacklist that entire entity altogether. But instead, I was more shocked at arguments launched against HRC, as I found them to be extremely bizarre and misguided.
First of all the title of this Tumblr post bothers me. The author would “unfriend” someone because they have different opinions about an organization than they do? How immature and counter productive. We are all fighting for LGBTE rights, some of us just have different ways of getting there. That doesn’t mean cut a friend out of your life.
The author repeatedly uses the derogatory term “Gay marriage” throughout, instead of Marriage Equality. Then tries to make excuses for it. Hate to break it to everyone, but there’s no such thing as gay marriage. When I got up this morning, I didn’t gay brush my teeth, gay eat my sandwich, and then call my “opposite sex” best friend. Marriage is marriage, and thus terminology like the above degenerates members of the LGBTE community to a separate but not equal second class society. Perhaps the author should use non-homophobic slurs before judging people who are genuinely trying to make a difference through social media in their own way.
The author is highly uneducated and continues to spew venomous lies about an organization that they do not understand.
-“HRC is an organization run by rich white men”
Wrong. Not that it would matter in the slightest, but could not be farther from the truth. HRC is made up of individuals from all different socioeconomic status’s, ethnic backgrounds, races, colors, sexual orientations etc. Just like any other organization. Even a common Google search would tell you that. Myth blown.
-“They have consistently chosen not to support trans rights”
Wrong again. HRC is passionately committed to improving the lives of transgender individual’s both locally and on the international stage, through everything from grassroots advocacy, lobbying,public education campaigns, and so much more. HRC is one of the top LGBTE organizations when it comes to seeing results on trans related issues.
From the website
“HRC works to educate the public on issues that transgender people face, from widespread discrimination and hate violence, to the complex process of getting appropriate identity documents, to finding culturally competent healthcare providers, and family and parenting issues, and to advocate for their full inclusion and equality.”
http://www.hrc.org/issues/transgender
http://www.hrc.org/blog/entry/international-transgender-day-of-visibility-and-rally
-“They have consistently silenced POC organizations and organizers.”
Three strikes and your out. The simple answer is never. HRC is committed to working with other POC and LGBTE rights organizations through networking, funding, advocacy and the sharing of resources. Other LGBTE organization’s are jealous of the amount of attention, money, and resources HRC gets, so it’s only natural to try and slur the organization. They like any charity/non for profit group have money to make and a quota to fill financially, and when money is involved, passions come out. It’s easier to create internet lies rather than take accountability for your organization’s poor performance.
-“They have accepted donations from, and even honored, multi-billionaire corporation..”
As they should have! Organizations need money to survive, and should not be refused because some people are not impressed with capitalism and the current state of the economy. This is where the authors argument begins to come of it’s rocker, and you can clearly see the derangement in the general ideas presented. Does the author know these “millionaires” personally? Just because someone has money, does not make them evil. This isn’t Tarzan economics. “Government Bad”, “Big Corporations Evil” “Me scratch stomach” (eye roll). It’s much more complicated that that. The last time I checked, earning a high income and donating to charity does in NO way mean you are either for or against any type of government policy. Let alone capitalism. If the author would like to come up with another way of getting the hundreds of millions of dollars to fund these bills, outreach campaigns, trans health care costs, law fees etc. then I’d love to hear it. But until then, I think they should stick with the guaranteed funds that are saving lives.
Any finally, as if the article couldn’t get any more embarrassing, we are left with this little gem.
-“I think about all the queer people of color, and the trans and genderqueer people, who are being told in no uncertain terms: your rights mean less than ours. Your alienation means less than our visibility. We’ll come back for you later. Wait your turn. “
And if that wasn’t embarrassing enough
“Some of my dearest friends have the HRC logo up right now (including many people of color, because we should all know by now, you don’t need to be white to support white supremacy).”
I could now take the time to explain how people of color are at the forefront of HRC’s policy, the not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of steps the organizations has taken to improve the lives of LGBTE people of color, and that supporting HRC is in no way supporting white supremacy (how offensive to everyone who is actually a victim of racism by the way. I love the way we just throw that term around now -_-) But that would be too easy. Instead I will just provide the evidence.
http://www.hrc.org/blog/entry/black-history-month-waking-with-a-dream
http://www.bohnettfoundation.org/news_stories/view/100641
http://www.hrc.org/blog/entry/hrc-makes-comprehensive-inclusive-immigration-reform-organizational-priorit
http://www.hrc.org/press-releases/entry/hrc-marks-national-latino-aids-awareness-day
-“Um, because I don’t fucking care about your intentions”
Classy. I feel like the author of the post lost the argument when they started using fowl language. Eff this and Eff that shows a lack of respect for your friends, and the people following your page and reading the Tumblr post. If you can’t respect them, then how can you respect yourself? And if you can’t respect yourself, how can we take you or your opinions/blog posts seriously?
In conclusion, I honestly have no problem with people supporting or not supporting Human Rights Campaign. My issue is that people would believe a Tumblr post of all things, written by a random individual who has had no experience with the organization, rather than researching this organization (or any organization for that matter) and making an informed and educated decision for themselves. It would be interesting to see how many people liking or re blogging this Tumblr post can name HRC’s president or any employes, donors etc. Or could mention what their policy on transgender activism is. This isn’t about HRC or Facebook profile pictures. It’s about making educated and informed decisions for ourselves, and respecting others who do not share our same opinions.
