A nation is be judged not by on how it exults its bullies and strongmen, but how it treats its most vulnerable. Like Japanese Americans, the trans community never did anything to deserve the kind of hatred and targeting they have received.
We have a moral obligation to stand by them now. /4
We have a moral obligation to stand by them now. /4
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It is no accident that fascists today walk that same dark path by targeting trans people. /5
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings
Then they move to next “other”group!
Let them live in peace. Why do they fear what they never see? Lies about them are EViL.
Live and Let Live! Mind your own Damn Business!
It's a lot more common than you think.
Recent fascism examples are Modi in India, Netanyahu in Israel, Prayuth in Thailand, Musharraf in Pakistan, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, MBS in Saudi Arabia, khomeni in Iran etc.
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By that time the population has accepted that these so called people are an infestation and a enemy from within that needs to be eradicated.
Get out while you can!
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A compassionate, good people would not permit this to happen. We will not be divided against /6
We must stand united. No exceptions. We must stand with the trans community. /end
Every cis person reading this post and wondering how they can help, the most direct thing you can do is call or e-mail your Congress people today and send them George's post, line by line, then tell them you expect them to making defending trans rights a priority.
I'm sure there are others as well, maybe some Democratic Party operatives that I don't know about.
@jaimeharrisonbsky.bsky.social @thedemocrats.bsky.social
@jaimeharrison.bsky.social.
I once lived near Tanforan Park in No. Calif. -- a racetrack used as a Japanese internment camp for 171 days during World War II.
The racetrack burned down in 1969 and was replaced by a large shopping center.
Decades later, the Tanforan site still reeks with bad vibes.
Non-trans Jews have tried to offer support to the trans Jews they've turned on, but for them it's not the same.
The antisemitism needs to stop, there's not enough trans people for them to attack their own
“For the good of society … transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely—the whole preposterous ideology, at every level.”
-Daily Wire host Michael Knowles, CPAC speech 3-6-23
Thank you for your courage and eloquence.
W.V. v. Barnette 1943 Scotus
would have stopped
Korematsu v. U.S.
Decided: December 18, 1944 Scotus
as well as DOMA enacted 53 years later
This post will only open the eyes of those who care already. I’m afraid things will get a lot worse before it gets better.
I hope one day to see you somewhere and get a new photo with you where I can look at it again and not see a stranger.
May you Live Long and Prosper
We could use as many allies (accomplices) as we can get.
Glad we can always count on having you in our corner.
small groups and make them vulnerable. Trans people represent about 1% or less. At the time Japanese were about 3%. Terrible hate targeting of minority
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It’s just reality that not all girls are the same ht, wt or ability, & competions are deemed fair 🤷🏼♀️
There is no big difference between prepubescent girls & boys, coed sports exists w/o fuss.
Those that don't lack empathy.
Why so hard to MYOB???
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist…
… Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me.
I think the pin saves it to the top of your profile.
Maybe some kind soul will confirm or correct?
My kid is NOT up for anyone to debate.
Thank you for this very necessary reminder to all.
It's our duty to defend those among us who are being scapegoated, who are being mistreated and abused by people wrapped in flags claiming to be patriotic...
It makes me feel a lot better knowing that people like you have the courage to stand up for the trans community when we are being so widely vilified by forces that want to turn back the clock on social progress.
It is tragic we haven’t done so.
Disappointing (to be polite) that many (to be polite) don't read/understand/learn from history.
It was less than 100 years ago.
Good that I'm old. I won't have to witness the v2.0 for long.
The water issue isn't b/c it's over crowded. That's a whole other discussion .
People generally collect things for nostalgia, inspiration, etc.
Collecting publications from the third reich isn’t a red herring. It’s the smoking gun.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ted-cruz-mitt-romney-harlan-crow-nazi-memorabilia-clarence-thomas-2023-4
https://libnews.umn.edu/2015/10/secrets-of-the-archives/
https://christopherkeelty.medium.com/jugendverf%C3%BChrer-and-jugendverderber-the-republicans-borrow-another-strategy-from-nazi-germany-24c0fe65eb1f
That last having caused direct violence against us.
What is clear is they did not attack synagogues until after. So if they saw it as a jewish plot why did they not attack them first.
"Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate"
It is a great jumping off point.
https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2024/06/dora-richter-transgeschlechtlichkeit-drittes-reich-berlin-trans-magnus-hirschfeld.html
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324036319
But it is true that the burnings did not only target books from Jewish writers.
And for sure, the focus of the nazis on the Institute of Sexual Research is little known.
We have to be able to openly discuss the actual problem, which is culture wars and use on language, without dismissing their feelings and their fears.
It’s easy for me to say knowledge is power, much harder to implement.
Therapy can take many forms, it might be as simple as understanding someone else’s perspective.
Fear is universal, even if cause of fear is not.
This is not some new problem. We’ve known how to respond to these people for a VERY long time.
Never assume malice when stupidity can be a reasonable explanation—Hanlon’s Razor
Stupidity is willful and dogmatic ignorance. Ignorance that knows no reason.
Although there is a fascist/nazi/mysogynist/xenofobic minority within. Most of them are simply misguided to the point of losing hold of the truth or any sense of what is right or wrong.
We have all learned that the best way to deal with bullies is not to react, but redirect their anger towards themselves.
In this case, it's safer for people like me to assume malice than hope for ignorance and stupidity. This way we keep our guards up and just maybe we can be a little safer because of it. 🤷
Knowledge is power.
Sure, there are quite a few “evil” people in their midst, but the problem are the stupid people that they rally to their cause. Take them out of the equation and they lose all power.
Stupidity: can't be fixed, its like giving medicine to the dead.
Fascism: inherently based on irrational fears
I can think of a razor worth apply to people like that, but it isn’t a rhetorical one
The ground is the stupidity of their followers and the “centrists” who voted for them.
An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
/s just in case, because it might be lost on you.
And yes, being so stupid that YOU enable evil is evil. That point of view is intrinsic to the problem I am trying to address.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-forgotten-history-of-the-worlds-first-trans-clinic/
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-eight-genders-in-the-talmud/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/new-research-reveals-how-the-nazis-targeted-transgender-people-180982931/
Thank you.
https://www.collegesoflaw.edu/blog/2023/06/20/a-pride-month-warning/
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What we are seeing is not new
It has been done throughout history
If you are not part of the group making the target lists
Then YOU WILL BE ON A TARGET LIST
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One more way Putin has influenced our elections. 🤬
https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/the-camps/ss-concentration-camp-system/development-of-the-ss-camps/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1-GaLv7ZmL5YdTG0qt5zrvR7EOsVnk51XItrP6Q3IT5hN5fSeYH_OanWU_aem_kYXaI5Rtyru9toKbqCKJDw
Now Elon Musk builds AI robots by Tesla & Japanese sex robots.
#fightback
#semperfidelis