Extremism experts say a now-familiar playbook to scapegoat transgender people in the wake of high-profile tragedies is part of a political strategy to sow division and expand authoritarian control.
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How many lives, how many children, how many families, how many livelihoods must be sacrificed to the vanity, revenge, hatred, & greed of 2 men?
And if you think you will be spared, understand that their illusion of their own superiority will eventually destroy all they believe are inferior. YOU!
Just say the fuckin "f" word. Stop downplaying this with soft language. Take a stand, or we're going to repeat the journalist leasons of the 30s and 40s. Like your article says, its echoing history. Dont be like the Times and shy from shining light.
It’s literally what the Nazis did nearly a century ago - the first thing they did was burn down the world’s 1st LGBTQ medical institute and all its research so that they could pretend LGBTQ existence/medical research was new/unfounded. They even started the false “groomer” trope MAGA still uses.
How many transgender athletes are there in the U.S.? Out of 510,000 athletes competing at the collegiate level, there's fewer than 10 who publicly identify as transgender, Charlie Baker, N.C.A.A. president said in January
Google it
M& H School it's 5 in the country in Girls Competive letter sports
Another example that links Trump and the Muskovites (a great band name for a band that plays sketchy music in rundown bar in the middle of a red state) to the playbooks of Adolf Hitler
This is more or less the same strategy theyve deployed against various marginalized groups for the last 50 years, cool that NPR is picking up on it now
NO SHIT BUT IT WAS ALSO THE PLAYBOOK BEFORE HE WAS RE-INSTALLED; THE SEVERAL YEARS YOU WERE RUNNING BOTH-SIDES-HAVE-A-POINT PROPAGANDA TO UNDERMINE CARE FOR TRANS KIDS AND ADULTS.
The Walz photo is meaningful because the children they can understand what that politician did.
Trump was a whole different story. Trump probably got off having those little girls all around him. I think it’s sick that their parents let them be near that nasty man.
Republicans would love nothing more than to just completely eliminate women's sports. They've hated that Title IX requires them to fund them at the same level as their sacred high school boy's football.
Total Nonsense. The Trans community and their Multiple Attacks on schools has earned whatever title it has now been given. It would be nice if the GOVT banned psychotropic drugs because all of these attacks and other craziness would literally stop overnight.
can you explain how these life saving medications are causing all these problems? are you trying to say that treating people with mental illness is bad and that they should just suffer instead?
These white man..they are so fucking lazy. They want the white mom to raise the kids, make the meals and housework...all the while at work they want to profit from the black man or minority worker. They dont want to do any work so they try to blow up the system that holds them accountable. #resist
Conservatives with LGBTQ children torture and neglect them. That's part of the backlash. We stopped some of their torture camps and they came for our family.
I wonder about the little girls there whose MAGA mommies are explaining to them what transgender means, at the same time that they are keeping that word from being used in a schoolroom.
Hopefully they will wake up and see realize how ridiculous this Republican charade was. At this age they have absolutely no idea. It’s really sad to see them used as pawns in this manner.
It’s not new, and it’s happened repeatedly in history. This is how governments descend into fascism and authoritarianism, and it often happens with apathy at best and compliance at worst with the general population. We are living in very scary times if there isn’t some
bipartisan pushback.
Oh my god. When I heard this signing over CSPAN I thought it was a college team in the room. He made a big deal about how "beautiful" they were and how his political career would be ended for calling them "beautiful." Seeing that they are young girls is stomach churning. These girls are being used.
There are people who let their pastor or priest take their kids out to the woods for a camping weekend.
Some people are way too trusting of authority figures.
yes trump won't anything he promised his base to help their lives, he wants high costs. but he will make the people his base hates miserable. that's why he's going after "DEIA" and trans people while doing nothing help people who elected. they get nothing and still think he is 'helping' them.
Dehumanize so no one cares, Remove from public view (book bans, don't say gay, etc.) so no one notices, then the last step the Nazis took was the camps so no one survives.
The initial speech:
"National unity is now returning to America, and confidence and pride is soaring like never before......and we will not forget our God."
Trump is pulling god along by the nose, while he himself is doing the opposite of, what he think is going on.
Using the white children as props is especially chilling. This is what Hitler and Stalin did to promote 'white superiority' over mixed race, handicapped, Jews, gypsies, gays, teachers, scholars, anyone who didn't vote for him, Democrats, Dem politicians, and the judicial system.
Why are there only little girls standing next to him? Don't let your children anywhere near him unless you're there with him. Nowhere does it say a President can't be a pedophile.
You can make changes without being mean and cruel. They are using anyone who is not a white male as a scapegoat to prop up their egos. We are going back to 1880s! For those who said it was just "talk", we warned you.
Seeing all those girls surrounding him, presenting the image of obedience and loyalty the Dear Leader. It looks like something you'd see in North Korean propaganda.
The whole administration has been this way for years and everyone has known it. If it’s not lgbt+, it’s the illegals, the blacks, or their historical favorites, the Jews.
That picture creeps me out. After all the Epstein info and the sexual assault verdicts, I would not feel safe to have my daughter that close or be in the same room with him.
Well, yeah. #fascist playbook. He's already blamed millions of immigrants and millions more that don't even exist for all the nonexistent crime that's "destroying" America. #grandfascistparty
Agree. Hate never wins. Nazis had a lot of hate. People want to say we're 'normalizing' the behavior they hate. Wrong. Tolerance. Only tolerance. No one wants you to change gender or love a trans. Just allow them to be.
“If you can convince the lowest white man that he’s better than the best black man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him someone to look down on and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
It is a disgrace to villainize a historically oppressed minority representing less than 0.6% of the US population (US Gallop Poll). A group that small cannot blamed for everything that is underperforming within our nation.
Those poor photo-op kids. Years from now they're going to look back and cringe on this because they will grow up and realize this whole fight was pointless and that trans people deserve human rights like everyone else.
It's disappointing that NPR is still resisting calling these tactics what they are: a form of fascist politics. Trump has routinely engaged in the tactics of fascist politics and that needs to be named for what it is. He's a fascist.
I don't see any of these girls wrinkling their nose at Trump's odor. I really want to find some proof of poopy pants in action. He's no Captain Depends.
Over 544,000 college age female athletes in the country, of which there are 10 total transgender female.
This was certainly a great danger to American women, much worse than rapists like Trump and his cabinet.
This has always been the tactic of the Nazis/Fascists. Find a minority and attack it.
"A danger so horrible to inflict on the USA that we must have some action to protect our innocent girls! All 10 of these monsters!" How stupid does this sound? Know. Share. Knowledge is power.
Conservatives claim they want to protect women in sports but then look at how they talk about women in sports like Brittney Griner, Angel Reese, or Imane Khelif.
I don't think we need experts to tell us that. History books tell us how countries slipped into authoritarianism. The problem is that not enough people in the US read books.
You do not have to be an expert, to see that the President targets those who his supporters want him to target, as there is a lot of hate in his base, which anyone who has ever spoken with a red hat enthusiast in real life knows with absolute certainty beyond all doubt. Stand up for all humans now.
I fear for the kids in the vicinity of that monster 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000x more than them in the vicinity of a thousand trans folk.
Everything he does is documented in history books. The means of implementing it may have changed due to technological advances, but the ideas and goals remain constant. (1)
His actions were foretold and chronicled by thousands of people across the US and worldwide. If people haven't yet developed a strategy to resist, the focus should shift immediately to ending this coup. (2)
Tyranny doesn't abolish itself.
Rise up against domestic enemies, traitors, and treasonous nazis.
You're free people. You have the liberty to defend your country, Constitution, fellow Americans, and freedom itself by any means necessary.
Revolution is the solution.
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And if you think you will be spared, understand that their illusion of their own superiority will eventually destroy all they believe are inferior. YOU!
Google it
M& H School it's 5 in the country in Girls Competive letter sports
He rapes woman, then gloats about it.
Trump was a whole different story. Trump probably got off having those little girls all around him. I think it’s sick that their parents let them be near that nasty man.
bipartisan pushback.
This looks a lot like the indoctrination they warned us about.
https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vTFikAP6MXDCJjWzgMIOvpsT1ji-HwO-rLEvNE8e-cfCGh0YHoZluIG5TEsmwFub7MzIDfh0XgvcWL8/pub
Some people are way too trusting of authority figures.
"National unity is now returning to America, and confidence and pride is soaring like never before......and we will not forget our God."
Trump is pulling god along by the nose, while he himself is doing the opposite of, what he think is going on.
Really??
Read a book.
Much love and support to your daughter 🫶
“If you can convince the lowest white man that he’s better than the best black man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him someone to look down on and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
-Lyndon B Johnson
Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Pinochet, Pal Pot, the list goes on.
They all target marginalised, misunderstood, and/or mistrusted groups (often because of the rhetoric of the fascist movement) and scapegoat them.
And #MAGA is simpleminded enough to fall for it without question!
This was certainly a great danger to American women, much worse than rapists like Trump and his cabinet.
"A danger so horrible to inflict on the USA that we must have some action to protect our innocent girls! All 10 of these monsters!" How stupid does this sound? Know. Share. Knowledge is power.
Can anyone name something bad that Hitler did in 1933, where Trump is not currently attempting something similar?
Rise up against domestic enemies, traitors, and treasonous nazis.
You're free people. You have the liberty to defend your country, Constitution, fellow Americans, and freedom itself by any means necessary.
Revolution is the solution.