Parallels between GOP transphobia and Nazi antisemitism

[lady_*nix]

This article: https://www.damemagazine.com/2022/03/15 ... ve-danger/

I've noticed a lot of this myself, though the author is more eloquent on it than I am.

A frequent response I've seen to raising these points is, "This isn't genocide, because there's no direct state violence." To which I say

a) There is state violence, it's just not explicitly murderous yet

b) The US is more inclined to outsource lethal violence to citizen militias, or have it done "accidentally" by police, than to codify it explicitly

c) The Holocaust didn't start with death camps; it started with hate propaganda, persecutory laws, and Brownshirts beating people up. We have plenty of time and space to work up to death camps, and we already have the infrastructure in the form of prisons and ICE detention facilities... Both of which have themselves already seen mass deaths due to the pandemic, with the govt barely caring at all.

So, I think we have every reason to be terrified.

[Sigma_Orionis]

Yes you do.

And they won't stop there. As all the "easy pickings" are taken, they'll go on to other things. Authoritarians always need a "wedge issue" to keep their base motivated and have the latter do the former's dirty work: Persecution of all sort of minorities for example. The fact that these people hide behind their religious faith to justify everything they do, means that it's just a matter of time before they go after people of the "wrong" religious faith. And if they're successful. Well, they might just decide to export their BS to other countries. Either by direct intervention or just letting the Russkies do it. OR just supporting authoritarians all over the world (and we have PLENTY of those in Latin America). The fact that an authoritarian theocratic movement in the most powerful country in the world is rapidly progressing, should be frightening to all of us.

[SciFiFisher]

I know there is a better thread about this topic but I am too lazy to go look for it. And it is relevant. While I don't expect this win to last long I have some hope. Texas high court says governor cannot order transgender child investigations