I feel you can predict my next point: white "kids" of various ages being given community service and rehab stays, vs POC dealing with mandatory minimums and getting shoved in prison. I have also seen news reports of pretty white European women having children in the US, which would, born of brown women, be the much hated Anchor Babies*. I personally don't have the sources together to help you dissect the notion of the Upstanding Citizen, but I feel we're both on the same page on how fucked up it is. The legal gymnastics of "not queer for suckin some dick as a pale European" and "no intent to sell as a white kid with a lot of weed" are pretty similar. I think I'm mostly apologetic that I don't have a tidy point; we're both in agreement that this system is fucked. It's easy to assume from certain insular points of view that homophobic/transphobic pathologization has a different significance than racial and/or ableist pathologization, and I feel like, as queer adults with varying experiences, we understand the perils of quibbling over faux moral details to decide who "deserves" to be caught in the chaos of the system? This has been something that's on my mind, especially as tumblr crumbles under the weight of the first amendment.
*i cannot produce a source for this right now so i can't say if it's credible, but frankly a fleet of pretty pale cis women having pretty pale children who can sponsor them for citizenship in a couple decades sounds........beyond reasonable.
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Date: 2018-12-20 03:47 am (UTC)*i cannot produce a source for this right now so i can't say if it's credible, but frankly a fleet of pretty pale cis women having pretty pale children who can sponsor them for citizenship in a couple decades sounds........beyond reasonable.