Even I'm struggling to persist with reading through all that waffle and I have a high tolerance for waffle.
She is deliberately equating all kinds of ideas with each other and associating all of them with fascism. Again. Completely ignoring the fact that fascism has a clear meaning which does not apply to any of the groups she describes (not even the reactionary ones). And where that accusation may be levelled - in regard to the Hungarian government, which is moving toward fascism at a slow but steady pace, she's taken the sting out of the accusation she could make here by diluting its meaning so lazily.
And I'm sorry, but if these new "progressives" think they can laud some self-proclaimed LGBTQIAA++++ writers and others for seriously arguing in favour of bestiality and paedophilia, without any dissent coming from our big LGBT organisations, then they have no one to blame but their own movement if people come to associate the push for LGBT education with a push for unacceptable sexual practices.
One very upset woman told a meeting I was at recently, that she had shown a policeman certain Relationship Sexual Health and Parenthood materials now used in schools in Scotland and asked him whether he would arrest her if she showed that to her neighbour's underage kid. The answer was an unequivocal yes.
(If you show materials of an inappropriate sexual nature to kids under 13 in Scotland, it's considered child sex abuse. And what the RSHP materials now include absolutely falls under inappropriate sexual materials.)
People are now more connected than ever. We discuss teaching materials used abroad. People abroad discuss ours. It cannot come as a surprise to anyone that people might just think these materials are part of LGBT education if LGBT organisations keep welcoming the new and inclusive education plans which include this truly inappropriate material.
They see what's going on here and they happen to have governments that oppose some, most, or all demands of the lesbian and gay rights movements in their countries. And they will jump on such ill-advised materials as evidence of the depravity of the whole movement.
The only way to counter that, is for the big LGBT organisations to do what the lesbian and gay rights movement did in the 70s and 80s - object to those materials and to the proponents of bestiality and paedophilia and say not in our name.
But that's not what is happening. They keep calling us bigots and ~phobes and old-fashioned haters instead of listening to our safeguarding concerns.
Butler's handwringing in that article is pathetic. It makes her sound even more dense than she has already shown herself to be. Mind you, I'm not convinced she doesn't know what is at the bottom of those reactionary impulses. We've discussed this on here many many times - the political implications of the doctrine of gender identity will lead to a backlash against the whole LGBT community. It was already measurable in the US before all those international governments took those steps Butler laments in that article - surveys show a statistically significant drop in acceptance for LGBT issues and the community amongst young Americans in the last few years.
Butler's legacy may come to be something she wouldn't have dreamt of in her worst nightmares. But I doubt she'll ever see that.