That's the "crabs-in-a-bucket" approach. We will never get anywhere if we're willing to sell each other out and tear each other down to get ahead or protect ourselves. I'm never going to sacrifice solidarity with the oppressed in the hopes that our oppressors will be merciful. If I were that much of a coward, I wouldn't have transitioned in the first place.
You say I will always lose with this path, but you don't know that. What I do know is that I will always lose following your path. As far as I'm concerned, that's the only thing that's guaranteed to fail. Solidarity is the only viable strategy and the only one that makes any logical sense at all. As well as being the only moral position. You wanted to play that card of "look them in the face," well I could never look a Palestinian in the face and explain why I'm selling them out just to save my own skin. They will level all their slings and arrows against us, but it is still better to stand against them together than to fracture and join them and fight against each other for a momentary respite until they inevitably turn on us.
Claiming that every victory every marginalized group has ever won was just handed down from above by appeasing the rich and powerful is absurd, ahistorical, and offensive.
Interesting. So, by drag's logic, a Trump voter isn't responsible for supporting Trump, but a nonvoter is.
It's amusing to see the kinds of ridiculous knots y'all tie yourselves into trying to twist around language in an attempt to resolve your cognitive dissonance and punch left.