Shakes fist at sky Damn Enlightenment value systems.

If we could just wrap people back into Enlightenment values, we wouldn't even need to talk about LGBTQ+, it would just sort itself out. Here, we're staring down the specter of postmodern neo-Marxism.

I've probably said it a million times on this sub by this point, but I'm a part of the younger generation and I have heard people my age explicitly say, "Rationalism is racist" "Enlightenment values are problematic" (the word is an accusation of bigotry and evil, without explicitly saying so), things like that. It really troubles me. And it's funny, I have come to value logical debate much more since joining Saidit and reading about gender dysphoria.

LGBTQ+ in some sense is a proxy issue.

COMPLETELY agree. I have more recently been reading about the parallels between our issues, and our censorship off of Reddit, and other issues where there is a remarkably similar phenomenon playing out of bannings, use of CP as a weapon to silence and destroy online communities, etc. Race-related topics are just one such area.

Sometimes I worry that we're not looking at a big enough view of the picture. We should be joining hands with people sounding the alarm in the ASD community, with women (although radical feminism can be QUITE homophobic/biphobic, and has a way louder voice than LGB people's right now), and with other minority demographics. That's part of why I was so excited to see this letter signed by a bunch of organizations across demographics! Small progress but still, a step. I'm glad groups such as these are starting to reach out to each other.