Vanderbilt University Medical Center is being accused of violating the privacy of its transgender clinic patients by turning their records over to Tennsessee’s attorney general
This was always the intention when fascists started manufacturing the whole “trans are pedos” (aka groomers) narrative — to strip their rights away. Trans are the testing ground for authoritarian take over; identical to 1930’s Germany.
The only way you can strip a specific, targeted sub-group of the populations rights away is by making that group of people an enemy; in recent history the only indefensible enemies have been pedos and terrorists (islamic only though, coz Christianity). They lost the red scare trope several decades ago.
Take note. They’ll expand these targeted attacks to all other “others” as soon as they get (or manufacture) the opportunity… It doesn’t matter that the average conservative politician or Christian evangelist is 100x more likely to be a pedo than the average trans person, because they have never, and will never, give a shit about kids.
Man, I’ve been saying pretty much exactly this for fucking YEARS.
People have looked at me funny for a while when I’ve said stuff like that. Lately, people have stopped looking at me funny and started taking the discussion seriously.
On one hand, I’m glad that it doesn’t feel like I’m screaming into the void anymore.
On the other hand… why is it so fucking impossible for humans to acknowledge and react to anything unless it’s staring them right in the goddamn face (conceptually-related sad climate change noises)?
I am with you. And maybe a little bit salty about the majority of people. But then again the rise of fascism really has been staring me in the face for a decade. I am an aid worker focusing on refugees. You can imagine the messages I have gotten. Including the most insane, actually copied race purity propaganda leaflet with notes I got through snail mail. In a weird way, you almost have to respect the effort.
While trans rights are at least in the US as much or more under fire, in Europe it has also been refugees. On that front, it has gone from “just” criminalizing and harassing that group but also people who somehow are supporting that group. Which is only really relevant to show how far we are in the journey towards fascism in the West.
It is insane enough that I actually have to weekly remind myself that this is reality.
Oh we are repressing refugees too. They just come from central and South America. They’re mostly fleeing violent regimes that only exist because of US foreign policy.
I thought so but didn’t want to assume too much as I am not in the US. Usually these days global fascists are pretty connected and using the same playbook.
They have successfully managed to further this othering and dehumanizing of refugees to the point where an illegal immigrant is the term that is more commonly used instead of the correct term which is a refugee in colloquial discussion. In legal one, it gets a little bit more complicated but generally people don’t even need to be aware of that.
This was always the intention when fascists started manufacturing the whole “trans are pedos” (aka groomers) narrative — to strip their rights away. Trans are the testing ground for authoritarian take over; identical to 1930’s Germany.
The only way you can strip a specific, targeted sub-group of the populations rights away is by making that group of people an enemy; in recent history the only indefensible enemies have been pedos and terrorists (islamic only though, coz Christianity). They lost the red scare trope several decades ago.
Take note. They’ll expand these targeted attacks to all other “others” as soon as they get (or manufacture) the opportunity… It doesn’t matter that the average conservative politician or Christian evangelist is 100x more likely to be a pedo than the average trans person, because they have never, and will never, give a shit about kids.
Man, I’ve been saying pretty much exactly this for fucking YEARS.
People have looked at me funny for a while when I’ve said stuff like that. Lately, people have stopped looking at me funny and started taking the discussion seriously.
On one hand, I’m glad that it doesn’t feel like I’m screaming into the void anymore.
On the other hand… why is it so fucking impossible for humans to acknowledge and react to anything unless it’s staring them right in the goddamn face (conceptually-related sad climate change noises)?
I am with you. And maybe a little bit salty about the majority of people. But then again the rise of fascism really has been staring me in the face for a decade. I am an aid worker focusing on refugees. You can imagine the messages I have gotten. Including the most insane, actually copied race purity propaganda leaflet with notes I got through snail mail. In a weird way, you almost have to respect the effort.
How does the generation from FUCK YOU I WON’T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!!! go to "yes sir, tell me how to think and what to do while I lick your boots?
I don’t think those are the same generation…?
While trans rights are at least in the US as much or more under fire, in Europe it has also been refugees. On that front, it has gone from “just” criminalizing and harassing that group but also people who somehow are supporting that group. Which is only really relevant to show how far we are in the journey towards fascism in the West.
It is insane enough that I actually have to weekly remind myself that this is reality.
Oh we are repressing refugees too. They just come from central and South America. They’re mostly fleeing violent regimes that only exist because of US foreign policy.
I thought so but didn’t want to assume too much as I am not in the US. Usually these days global fascists are pretty connected and using the same playbook.
They have successfully managed to further this othering and dehumanizing of refugees to the point where an illegal immigrant is the term that is more commonly used instead of the correct term which is a refugee in colloquial discussion. In legal one, it gets a little bit more complicated but generally people don’t even need to be aware of that.
depends how recent your recent history is. within several living generations we had McCarthyism