“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”
Comments
Log in with your Bluesky account to leave a comment
BE A LIGHT
IN THE DARKNESS!!
🇺🇸💪🏼⚖️📢🫶🏼🇺🇸
- Stay informed
- Share independent media
- Become independent media - bear witness & 📢📃 🎥 abuse
- Develop untraceable crowdfunding (i.e. $TRUMP) to support:
1) Legal battles
2) Security for judges, independent media & witnesses
First of all, they came to take the gypsies
and I was happy because they pilfered.
(...)
Then they came to take homosexuals,
and I was relieved, because they were annoying me.
(...)
One day they came to take me,
and there was nobody left to protest.
Not this feminist. I know what it is to be a pawn.
"Can't you wait just one more election cycle for marriage? You're going to ruin everything! And on that subject, why do you have to call it 'marriage,' anyway...?"
Et cetera. And that was from self-proclaimed allies.
The CDC is pulling papers back, including those submitted for publication. The reason - to scrub language that is no longer permitted. This is the most ignorant party in America's history. If Trump wants us or them - America loses and so does he.
Why? They've abandoned us, too. They're nothing we can do within the Democratic party anymore, they're just Reaganite Republicans now. The party needs to shut down and get the fuck out of the way.
Dems got their asses handed to them over trans issues, and rightfully so. None of them could respond intelligently or empathetically to any of the thousands of anti-trans attack ads. Complete failure to stand up let bigots define the convo. They are learning the wrong lesson by abandoning
Yeah, I have pretty selfish motives for loudly supporting equality for all. I mean, I believe that people should be able to live however they choose but I’m motivated to be vocal about it because I realize that for every right they lose, I get closer to being next on the chopping block
I just want to be left alone to live my life as a single, childless woman. They’re already fucking with that now & there will never come a time when Republicans say “Ok, we are satisfied with how society is”. They are all Don Quixotes forever in search of their next marginalized windmill to chase
Exactly. They tell us to keep it to ourselves, so we do. But then they peek in and see it and decide we arent "keeping it to ourselves" enough. Nono, they want us to not be able to talk about it or express it in any way at any place.
The fact that I can sleep in whenever I choose, travel whenever I feel like it, etc seems to be, according to them, me “rubbing their noses in my lifestyle”. What?
I mean this is what gets me. A world where everyone thrives is genuinely in everyone’s interest unless the only thing you care about is a monomaniacal grip on power that ruins your own life too. We should all be so sensible.
They say this while actively advocating to wipe out an entire nation. Israelis are a vulnerable minority, a tiny nation surrounded by larger ones that want there to be no such people. Which Butler calls a wonderful example of the (somehow) Global South rising up against oppression. What a hypocrite.
Yes. That is what it means to be a tiny scrap of land surrounded by much larger states that want you to stop existing. The hatred for this indigenous land-back nation is racist and wrong. There is no legitimate rule of "What's conquered for Islam stays Islamic forever, and fuck the conquered."
Indigenous? It didn’t even fucking exist until 1948, and they’ve bern picking fights ever since.
Look at the dead children caused by their soldiers and tell me they’re fucking defenseless you shrew
Jews are indigenous to the land Romans called Judea. It's not some proselytizing religion where if you say the magic words you're a member, and tasked with going out to make new members, with the goal of converting the world. They are a People originating in a place, who have a traditional religion.
Because of its location as a crossroads area between more powerful nations, the indigenous homeland of this people was conquered many, many times. Many of the people fled into diaspora, but a remnant remained continuously. When conditions improved and members started to return, they accepted them.
There's an entire global movement dedicated to trying to wipe Israelis off the Earth. Covering itself with a fig leaf saying "But we aren't saying wipe JEWS off the Earth! They can still live in diaspora, as they were forced to after colonization. Israeli is not a REAL nationality."
It's racist logic. Like "If the Dutch had to stop ruling over the randomly chosen land they traveled across the world to conquer, then Israelis should have to give up having a state in the place their culture originates and their ancestors are buried, because they took on Euro DNA in diaspora!"
No racism. They hadn’t lived there for around two thousand years.
But hey, if you think that people who left their place of origin should have it returned, why aren’t you calling for Americans to return the land stolen from the First Nations?
As if the thing the Dutch did wrong was to be white, and not to have violently taken a land they had no connection to, far away from where their own ancestors lie and culture began. So if an indigenous community returns from diaspora with any white DNA, they're the same as the Dutch.
Hopefully, that'll happen soon, but the last time it happened, it resulted in Hamas. This time, things will have to be done differently and more systematically.
It is shocking that, knowing what we do about fascism, autocracy, genocide, & modern weaponry & surveillance technology, we refuse to unite as fellow human beings against the despotism of the .01% & their minions in government.
I think “cognitive dissonance” describes Americans’ refusal to examine their beliefs. It’s very hard to break through once they are hooked. Avg Germans were convinced they were winning the war until late 1944. The propaganda is not even skillful, just non-stop & overwhelming.
Like, good for them to finally start sounding that alarm, but i can't help but say:
THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE BEEN TELLING YOU SINCE THE F.A.R.T. MOVEMENT STARTED! WE WERE LITERALLY POINTING OUT YEARS AGO HOW THEY WERE ACTIVELY SIDING WITH OUTWARDLY FASCIST HATE-GROUPS WAVING SWASTIKAS.
I mean I dont think they are being sacrificed, I dont think anyone in Bidens age or peer group even understands the concept or that its a group period. The Nazis KNEW Judaism. The Muslim Brotherhood KNEW the Copts.
Never abandon ANY GROUP that's vulnerable in American society. We must be FIERCE in our response to fascists at every level and in any circumstance‼️🔥✊
Fascism is a hungry monster that must always be fed. Once one group is eaten up, it has to move to the next. Eventually everyone’s been eaten except a select few.
The democrats are still trying to recapture Bill Clinton's appeal to the center-right. They're using the same advisors, who are apparently stuck in a bubble and have not actually noticed that their "colleagues" would like them all impaled on bloody pikes outside of capitol hill as a warning.
All it does is further reduce the number of people willing to vote for them, seeing as LGBTQ+ people are a significant portion of their voterbase. It will not just be trans people who refuse to vote for them, seeing how much solidarity there is between these groups.
One of the big problems is Democratic leadership is made of brainrotted boomers who remember the days before the Southern Strategy, and hate that they can't get elected anymore by just appealing to white guys who use slurs regularly.
I have a dear friend who is trans and he's terrified he's going to wind up in a camp. My heart is broken. The best I can do is tell him I'll hide him in my attic.
I honestly fear Trump has the drive and personality to outdo even someone like Hitler if given the tools.
How fast will he go from picking out minority groups to hate, to getting everyone riled up, to convincing everyone it's OK for tanks attacking civilians and using gas chambers?
Trump maga like Bernie & his Squad all sold out our once hard fought rights held secure after Obama's 8 yrs.
Roaring in they demanded what this country, a free society REALLY NEEDED WAS A GODDAMNED REVOLUUSHUN!!.
BURN IT ALL DOWN!!
How'd that wotk out for y'all?
EVERY right is disappearing.
Right?! If they're just the drunk guy screaming at the back of the bar alone, we ignore them. But if you keep handing him beers and grabbing other drunk guys from other bars, you've got a mob.
America First has ALWAYS only applied to straight white men. These are just two of them that were rather easy to put alt-text on, there's a ton more. Though some of Dr. Seuss's WW2 cartoons were pretty fucking racist, he had a lot that called out the America First crowd.
The Sharia law that is in the Gaza is different from the western civil law. In Gaza LGBTQIA2S people are sinners (zina) and not minorities. Anyone who is muslim is allowed to punish them by torture and execution.
Then we build pyramids with gutters to channel the blood flowing down from the altar on top of it. We tell ourselves the gods need blood or the sun won't shine and the rain won't fall.
Genocides. Plural. They found the people who are most ignored and fastest forgotten, got rid of them and buried the bodies. Hell, forgot where they buried the bodies.
Once you decide a group of people's loss of human rights is acceptable, you give the right for those removing it to do it wherever they want.........and they never. EVER. Stop.
But what if someone believes the awful things the regime says about this one particular minority, even as they recognise the exact same regime is foul and dishonest about every single other minority & vulnerable group it attacks?
Comments
IN THE DARKNESS!!
🇺🇸💪🏼⚖️📢🫶🏼🇺🇸
- Stay informed
- Share independent media
- Become independent media - bear witness & 📢📃 🎥 abuse
- Develop untraceable crowdfunding (i.e. $TRUMP) to support:
1) Legal battles
2) Security for judges, independent media & witnesses
First of all, they came to take the gypsies
and I was happy because they pilfered.
(...)
Then they came to take homosexuals,
and I was relieved, because they were annoying me.
(...)
One day they came to take me,
and there was nobody left to protest.
The poem was originally written by Pastor Martin Niemöller who spent time in a concentration camp.
It starts with “First they came for the socialists…” because that’s what the Nazis did. They hated socialists and communists.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.”
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”
—Martin Niemöller
Hell yes, exactly!
"Can't you wait just one more election cycle for marriage? You're going to ruin everything! And on that subject, why do you have to call it 'marriage,' anyway...?"
Et cetera. And that was from self-proclaimed allies.
I get it.
I want people to be free to be freaks because -I- want to be free to be a freak!
If what they wish for themselves, they wish for others.
If it's privacy, dignity and security for everyone?
They sound like my type of person.
Selfish, maybe. But you’re using it for a greater purpose, so that’s not something to be ashamed of.
Look at the dead children caused by their soldiers and tell me they’re fucking defenseless you shrew
But hey, if you think that people who left their place of origin should have it returned, why aren’t you calling for Americans to return the land stolen from the First Nations?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...#Origin
👏 IT 👏 DOESN'T 👏 FUCKING 👏 MATTER 👏
The groups can be exchanged ANYTIME: not just in the current political setting, but even in the contemporary ones in Niemöller's time.
E.g the Bolshevik authoritarians used exactly this tactic against their opponents aka salami tactic.
communists, trans/queer people and the disabled people were the first
the first ones being "easy targets" seen as disposable in society, is the central point of the message - this is the message
it was shortened to hide ones own fascists tendencies
https://bsky.app/profile/alonlevy.bsky.social/post/3le26kekxkc2x
https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?si=cfWnNDTVfMiduk-T
Deportation means murder.
Just listen to all the people saying "let's deport our current prisoners"
They're American citizens! They know we can't send them anywhere! And so do they.
A MAGA guy would never willingly touch a gay man.
The delusion that it can and will only ever be done to 'others'?
People don't want to admit it could be done to them.
THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE BEEN TELLING YOU SINCE THE F.A.R.T. MOVEMENT STARTED! WE WERE LITERALLY POINTING OUT YEARS AGO HOW THEY WERE ACTIVELY SIDING WITH OUTWARDLY FASCIST HATE-GROUPS WAVING SWASTIKAS.
Not one shall be taken, and each one taken will have Justice.
This isn’t merely “a minority.”
It’s people.
How fast will he go from picking out minority groups to hate, to getting everyone riled up, to convincing everyone it's OK for tanks attacking civilians and using gas chambers?
Frightening.
Roaring in they demanded what this country, a free society REALLY NEEDED WAS A GODDAMNED REVOLUUSHUN!!.
BURN IT ALL DOWN!!
How'd that wotk out for y'all?
EVERY right is disappearing.
RICH straight white people
Genocides. Plural. They found the people who are most ignored and fastest forgotten, got rid of them and buried the bodies. Hell, forgot where they buried the bodies.
They've already succeeded.
This is a genuine question.
How do you get these idiots to SEE?
Oh wait.