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Raven Onthill"First, they came for the transgender, and I spoke out immediately even though I'm straight and cis because I've read the rest of the fucking poem." – Patrick Tomlinson on Twitter
O@ravenonthill yes people who don’t realize what this is need to figure it out stat. It should be enough that any vulnerable group is being killed, threatened, made unsafe but also under this system everyone’s rights are up for grabs. Fighting back means collective strategy and consistent pushback. But it always has. And trans activists have made up many more human rights wins and efforts than many people are aware of.
LeaBug@ravenonthill thank you
Cassandrich@ravenonthill This. Folks who aren't members of first-targeted scapegoat groups should be extremely thankful towards their members and vigilant over the attacks on them, if not for basic human decency then because doing so is the best way to have an early warning for fascism and avenue to fight it.
It's Just Jenn 🏳️⚧️@ravenonthill It's almost like you should fight for universal human rights out of self-interest or something.
Stevez@Tweetfiction @ravenonthill Well... ...and... shouldn't you?🤔
technetium@Tweetfiction @ravenonthill Indeed, more people need to realize they are a minority one way or another in any group of more than two people.
Kelsey Marie Bell She/Her@ravenonthill ❤️❤️🙏🏻🕊✌🏻🌻🇺🇦🇷🇺🌎🌍🌏✌🏻
Extinction (our fate)@ravenonthill Tweeting about it is a good introduction to the idea of doing something about it. But it isn't doing something about it, as we all know. That takes a commitment beyond mere speech.
Kevin RussellI saw a sign, and when I see it again I may make it my header, it was a couple of people holding a big card board sign, hand painted with
"Leave my trans homies alone, or I'm going to identify as a fucking problem."
SpeakerToManagers@ravenonthill
No shit. But speaking out isn’t enough, as my relatives who died in WWII Ukraine could tell you.
No shit. But speaking out isn’t enough, as my relatives who died in WWII Ukraine could tell you.
John B
Bonvolu korekti min@ravenonthill Does it matter where somebody said it? If Patrick wrote this on the toilet, would you write:
- Patrick Tonlinson on the toilet
@vegafjordo it’s part of a citation. When I cite a book, I include the publisher.
@ravenonthill But twitter isnt a publisher. Its a society. It is a place where people recides and connects with each other. Twitter isnt a book, its a place.
Because the web isnt a book of pages. Its a world of societies. Or a world of places.
To treat twitter as a book is butchering our understanding of
how the internet operates.
JW prince of CPH@ravenonthill This 👆 👆 👆 Except they didn't come for the transgender "first" - this is just the most recent frontline in an embarrassingly long history of the powerful striking down on some powerless group of people for who they are, as theater for the normies.
It's about mother-goddamn-fucking time we put and end to that.
@jwcph they pretty much did. When you see pictures of the book burnings, those were books belonging to an organization that did sex changes.
@ravenonthill That's true; we should be saying "Again they came for"...
Ms Bailey, Sound Production Arc
Andrew Wigglesworth@ravenonthill "First they came for the Communists" ... because they were actually challenging capitalism and organising working class people.
Shield Maiden@ravenonthill Note that no-one has spoken out though about the deliberate targeting and criminalising of GRT people's way of life this past ten yrs by Tory gov, local councils and amenities...
Essjay 🏳️🌈 
Absolutely this 🎯
Along with Cameron, Osborne and Clegg's genocide of disabled people in 2010 with 'austerity'
@essjaykeys @ravenonthill The point I was making is that disabled people and other marginalised people have voices who speak up for them, represent them either in Parliament or the House of Lords...GRT people don't have ANY of that.
Yes of course, that is the case and I do appreciate that.
GRT people have been effectively mandated out of legal existence by this Tory government.
We are in a fascist state.
UK politics is badly broken.
The EHRC did a whitewash job over the tens of thousands of disabled deaths that occurred.
Just as they did with systemic institutionalised racism.
JulieBLOL. Literally, LOWayTooLoud
So good.
FairYouSee@ravenonthill Yes. And also I speak out right away because unlike Niemoller, I'm not a Nazi who only gets upset when bad things happen to me.
🌲🧿 "Max"t💽d🏵️n 🔎🍄@ravenonthill First, they came for other humans. & I spoke out because I'm a fucking human. This is not hard.
The fact that people "need" a quote to realize this is really sad.
VelvetAlex@ravenonthill My Holocaust survivor grandmother predicted this in 2019. Her aunt was a trans woman in the 1930s in Berlin. She didn't survive. They absolutely go after the most marginalized first. We have to stop it.
@VelvetAlex I’ve heard of people who talked about it back in 1980s. It was Florida then, too.
Giselle@ravenonthill
That's beyond perfect. I want to not just copy this onto a dainty, well-behaved sampler, but make a huge fucking poster to wave at every single person!
Totally perfect. Yeah. We need to speak out, we need to engage, we need to give a shit. Now.
That's beyond perfect. I want to not just copy this onto a dainty, well-behaved sampler, but make a huge fucking poster to wave at every single person!
Totally perfect. Yeah. We need to speak out, we need to engage, we need to give a shit. Now.
Tobias@ravenonthill Brilliant. Thank you.
Schroedinger@ravenonthill When "they" come for anyone, I look to see if I know anyone of the targets to ask them.
If I don't I ask wider to get to know some.
Because being on the side of the opressed is at the heart of my faith. It is never about whether the targets are me or not.
Johnny Profane Âû