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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
And, again, because you kind of breezed right past this: being an "ally" should not be dependent on how well you are treated by an individual, it should be dependent on what you believe, and it should be reflected in your actions. You want to be an ally? Then be an ally, this isn't a difficult thing. Slip up? Apologize. Don't want to, or get shamed anyway? Cool, keep being an ally because you want to be an ally.
If we're talking about counterproductive, saying you want to support people but you can only support them if every single one of them is completely supportive of you first, or otherwise you're gonna be on the "transphobe" side, is... kinda ####ty.
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A good analogy is actually Sliver's ranting about local shoppers dropping the "I want to support local, but...." followed by demands that you beat Amazon or they'll use Amazon. Cool, you were never wanting to support local, you were always going with best price and then as a final kick in the teeth put your decision on the businesses hurting from Amazon dominance.