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mcc
@dryad.technology

It's important that we've seen a shift where Nancy Mace can be chanting "tranny, tranny" in a proceeding of the US Congress, or this can happen, and not only is it accepted it's *treated as unexceptional* in mainstream press. If nothing else it shows us where the supposed moderates stand.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social

Tough talk for a guy actively losing a war so pointless his troops are throwing themselves into the ocean

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Millie(let)
@gyro.bsky.social

The only reason I'm not boosting this is because I'm a trans woman with a tendency to catastrophize and my social circle is trans women with a tendency to catastrophize. but you're very right, yeah.

mcc
@dryad.technology

Yeah; I am constantly uncertain whether it's even a good idea to talk about what's happening for this very reason

mcc
@dryad.technology

There's that old Lee Atwater quote about how conservatism starts off saying the N-word and then moves to abstractions like talking about "busing" or states rights. On trans rights the right has gone back to just using the T-word. And the press thinks it's normal. We've regressed to 1954 or earlier.

mcc
@dryad.technology

I need cis people to understand how much has been taken from us and in how short a time. And you'll think I'm crazy for saying this, but I do think you should know this happened to trans people before when a place briefly existed we were tolerated, and how that time ended.

staging.gcn.ieHow Nazis destroyed Berlin’s burgeoning LGBTQ+ sexology instituteSet up by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1919, the sexology institute was a pioneering research centre until it was destroyed in 1933.
Embrrrrrrr
@embrrrrrrr.bsky.social

It’s chilling how many of the exact same arguments about “pushing too far” are used to hand-wring the fascist blowback against Hirschfield and his institute even to this day.

Embrrrrrrr
@embrrrrrrr.bsky.social

Useful tip is that if you’re talking to someone who vaguely mentions “weimar” in the negative when explaining how the nazis rose to power, you should lure them into the nearest alley and slit their throat.