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BreadTube is very white–that much is known, but rarely talked about is the mechanism through which it became white. Last night, Angie Speaks posted a tweet deriding her common subjection to misogynoir tropes by people assigned-male-at-birth (shortened as AMAB) and it ushered in an entire thread of debate within the online leftist community on whether Angie’s language constituted transphobia and should therefore be unconditionally damning, or is the treatment she’s been getting from her detractors a confirmation of the very behavior she’s cautioned against in the post.
To begin to even understand why this controversy is harder to parse than most, it’s important to lay out the ideological differences between someone like Angie Speaks whose view of bigotry is defined more by class struggle, and her critics — among whom is Korviday and Luxander — who see the fight against bigotry as a manifestation of shared identitarian struggle. To Angie, being on the pedestal of great privilege when whiteness is supercharged through erstwhile masculinity is enough of a unifying experience that it doesn’t merit setting a distinction because the social…
