Why is dictating gender the government’s business? Where are all the Republicans who always objected to the government intruding into people’s lives? Was it all bullshit from all of them? Was there not a single Republican for whom this was more than a veiled demand that they be allowed to be a bigot and an asshole?
And where are the protests over this? Think how tough transgender people have it, and how much tougher the Nazi government is making it for them. Think how this is denying people basic rights. There should be mass protests in support of transgender rights. There’s so much irrational hatred and cruelty. All of us who can see the inhumanity should be doing something, even some little thing, to help trans people and obstruct this program of cruelty designed to drive people to despair.
Yep, it’s all bullshit. A simple translation:
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Fiscal conservatism / small government = cutting benefits for poor people and minorities
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States rights = allowing states to harm minorities through segregation and slavery. Only applies if the state level action harms poor people and minorities (then the federal government kicks in)
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Freedom of speech = conservatives can say whatever they want without consequences; minorities get cancelled or much worse.
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Keeping government out of the bedroom - conservatives can marry their child brides; the rest lose access to abortions and porn and eventually contraception and gay and interracial marriage.
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Was it all bullshit from all of them?
Yes.
The issue with this is using logic against them, it won’t work. When it’s them it’s not the same because “they’re in the right”, or they blatantly know they are doing it and say it’s because others would do it to them anyway.
This isn’t something that is going to be won intellectuality
The cruelty is the point and it’s FUCKED UP that there’s this many humans who are so fucking broken that they get off on hurting other people.
I couldn’t agree more. Trump and his goons are simply bad, bad people. I’m a public school teacher and rest assured the only thing I can and will do to counter this monstrous behavior is treat all my students with respect and kindness and be on the lookout for students who might need additional support in these bizarre times.
Just another step in the genocide of queer people in America I still see people on Lemmy deny is happening.
Have an example of someone denying it happening?
Sure. Here’s someone saying it directly to me:
What’s happening to queers in the US is not genocide. It does not meet the legal definition of genocide (according to the wiki section you posted), going around saying stuff like that minimizes actual genocide
https://lemmy.world/comment/14697546
Looking forward to the pretzeling to explain why that doesn’t count or why more examples are needed.
Fascists feel no obligation to truth or reality, nor do they feel encumbered by a need to be consistent in their beliefs and statements.
What Dept. of Education? Miles Bron said it doesn’t exist anymore.
It does if it’s about marginalizing some minority. They are just forbidden from doing extremist far-left things, like educating kids.
WHO is that department told them to do that?
