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Nowhere GirlThe anti-trans pogrom isn't going to look like concentration camps, at least not at first, because there just aren't a lot of us. It's going to be a rise in teen and adult suicides. It's going to be evictions. It's going to be police attacks on homeless camps. Because we'll be drummed out of schools and employment and public life and healthcare and have nowhere to go.
The only camps other than homeless camps are going to be evangelical conversion / torture centers where trans and queer kids will be sent after being taken away from their parents by mandatory order of the state.
And it will all largely happen out of the public eye because cis people don't care, don't want to care, don't want to know.
See no evil, hear no evil.
Speaking of, have you noticed these things are already happening?
Probably not.
Orange Lantern@gwynnion And if you tell people, you're either alarmist, a radical leftist, paranoid or just generally uninformed. It's the same as long as I can remember, everywhere.
It's exhausting, it's making me angry and it's so infuriating that your own future is dependant on a host of brainless idiots who can't see past their immediate desires.
It's exhausting, it's making me angry and it's so infuriating that your own future is dependant on a host of brainless idiots who can't see past their immediate desires.
@orangelantern I love being told I don't understand history especially, as if this hasn't happened before.
@gwynnion or that you just don't grasp politics. I'm pretty sure that is the exact bs people said here in the late 1920s.
Yassie > moved to 0w0.is@orangelantern @gwynnion Decades of media consumption has lead people to believe that when “The Event” occurs, it will be dramatic, profound, and fundamental in scope. Take the pandemic - there was an expectation that it was going to be like Contagion (2011) or 12 Monkeys (1995), when it was really a slow-burn mixed with regular mundaness. I honestly believe this mindset is a part of why the anti-Covid crowd got so big: they expected an apocalypse film and that didn’t happen.
In the same vein, the anti-trans attacks are not going to look like shipping people en masse to camps in Kent or something. They’re going to look just like an accelerated version of whatever happens to any minority group under colonialism, capitalism, and state repression - loss of property, key rights, and systematic isolation. Why create state-run camps when the existing power structure already has the ability to do it.
For close to a decade.
Shirley Bassey and the Propellerheads said it best ..
Sindarina, Edge Case Detective@gwynnion Concentration camps are what happens when everything else that comes before does not kill the Other fast enough without traumatising the assholes pulling the trigger. Took the Nazis many years to arrive at die Endlösung.
More people should remember the steps they took to get there.
@sindarina @gwynnion Came to say this. Thx. Agreed.
Swagpuss McG@gwynnion pogroms and concentration camps were different things but you don't care about history so why did I bother writing this? #irrelevance
@swagpussc Fuck off.
Camerondotca@swagpussc @gwynnion oh get fucked.
mariababy@gwynnion I think trans people have to somehow bring it to the fore that being anti-trans is being pro-capitalist, because the capitalists are using trans issues to try and defeat the left.
ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘@gwynnion I sincerely hope there will be opportunities to seek asylum in other countries. Not pretending this is an easy solution, but a path out.
The Rainbow Railroad exists for these and similar reasons. Google them and similar groups.
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