When marginalized groups are asked to join coalitions for other groups' rights, the unspoken question is whether those coalitions will reciprocate. The speaker frames this as a pragmatic exchange: caring about someone else's civil liberties is harder when you feel your own struggles are invisible to them. Coalitions that only ask for solidarity without offering it breed resentment rather than solidarity.
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