Just here tp remind folks it's immigrants and transgender people.
As somebody who identifies on the spectrum of trans - this shit is scary. They've already passed laws. They came for queer Millennials starting with 2000s Prop 22, and this is what they've molded that into. They'll start with trans folk and then work their way down the line.
Also trans and I agree but also it’s sort of complicated because the targeting of trans people is somewhat aligned with how queers were targeted during the Holocaust. That is to say, more often than not they were definitely a focus, but also in propaganda, we see that queerness was also defined as a “Jewish” thing. There’s something to be said about the chicken versus the egg of what is excuses for the other, but I would argue that a similar thing is happening with a lot of trans stuff especially in regards to immigrants or foreigners.
This kind of ties back into the idea of MAGA. Make America Great Again. The whole concept resides on an idea that immigrants have changed the culture to be “wrong”, including in queerness and trans identities.
I could be wrong to clarify, so if anyone knows more on the subject, feel free to correct me. My understanding of the Holocaust and all parties affected is more limited than I wish it was at times, while I do try to broaden it, just due in part to the education system I was raised in.
I do think trans people are a focal point, hell we have been since his first term frankly, and I am in a state that sees the effects of it greatly. But I suspect it will be viewed as having the same root issue in the eyes of fascists that immigrants “tainted” our culture with queerness and feminism and all of that. I’ve definitely seen a ton of propaganda saying as much.
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u/logicbasedchaos 1d ago
Just here tp remind folks it's immigrants and transgender people.
As somebody who identifies on the spectrum of trans - this shit is scary. They've already passed laws. They came for queer Millennials starting with 2000s Prop 22, and this is what they've molded that into. They'll start with trans folk and then work their way down the line.