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Torgo posted...

The "discrimination" that bisexual people may feel and receive from within the queer community is nothing at all like the external discrimination that LBGTQ people receive in general from conservatives and religious groups.

Not even close... there is no "both sides" here.

Of course, there's a shared struggle that the broader queer community have banded together to weather together.

There's still intra-community conflict, and that shit hurts. That's kind of the gist of that post I made earlier about infighters being "feds" - it sows division within the community and fractures us. But even saying that, trans people are perfectly justified feeling insulted by other people being transphobic, as are bi people justified being upset at biphobia and ace people about acephobia, etc. etc. The broader struggle doesn't mean "cheer up emo kid, we got a war to win", it exists parallel with that intra-community conflict and it's worth commenting on and getting past.

Root out the feds and form stronger bonds, but that doesn't mean downplaying and dismissing the different forms of queerphobia present within the broader community.