See also: "The Biggest Conspiracy Theories Are All-Consuming". It's a 7-minute read on Medium.
There are anti trans groups who are 1-2 steps away from JK Rowling who have literally said that transgender women are raping womens bodies by existing. https://t.co/96pyzAj71N
— a wailing banshe/her (@notCursedE) October 16, 2022
TERFs don't care that their views are incoherent nonsense based on projection and paranoid bigotry as old as civilization. They're high out of their minds on their own outraged self-victimization and any attempt to argue with them will be cast as persecution.
— Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable) October 16, 2022
They're fascists and they can only be defeated through solidarity, humiliation, and refusal to compromise.
— Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable) October 16, 2022
Jean Paul Sartre's quote on antisemites applies to bigots across the board. "Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies."
— Hack The Risen-Dead Author (@ZachRoseWriter) October 16, 2022
"They delight in acting in bad faith"
Most Americans do not have a good framework for understanding Jewish identity, because it does not fit well into Christian understandings of religion as premised on belief and confession, but also doesn't perfectly map onto American racial, ethnic, or national categories.
— Joel S. (@jh_swanson) October 21, 2022
The logical endpoint of the way the US political right talks about 70%-80% of American Jews as inauthentic and too secular to qualify as Jewish is going to be the claim that the Evangelicals are the "real Jews." I predict that claim will become increasingly mainstream in the US.
— Joel S. (@jh_swanson) October 21, 2022
Neo-nazis in Los Angeles are displaying antisemitic banners over the 405. Location was the 405 South a few exits north of the Howard Hughes Center. photo by @BrookstoneUSA pic.twitter.com/zkwqJ7TF8e
— Chad Loder (@chadloder) October 23, 2022
"Experts said the climate is the product of a stew of forces including a digital culture that spreads misinformation and hate and right-wing political forces focused on protecting White Christians’ status. Some said current antisemitism is also aggravated by more people downplaying it as merely an interreligious issue instead of a dangerous form of racism; in the past majorities from Germany to America made clear they saw Jews as a distinct and inferior race."
— "Overt U.S. antisemitism returns with Trump, Kanye West: ‘Something is different’." Michelle Boorstein and Isaac Arnsdorf. Washington Post. October 27, 2022.
Update
May 15, 2023 on Twitter: Elon Musk continues to spread antisemitic tropes. (He is, of course, also transphobic.)
In May 2023, Rep. Lauren Boebert, expresses her sense that complaints about "antisemitism" are really about Republicans (who are also, as we know, the party of transphobia).
The White House press secretary had to respond with the obvious: "Congresswoman Boebert is mistaken; antisemitism is not ‘conservative’ ― it is evil."
December 2023
From Judd Legum in Popular Information: On December 2, 2023, "the Executive Committee of the Texas Republican Party considered the following resolution: 'BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Republican Party of Texas have no association whatsoever with any individual or organization that is known to espouse anti-Semitism, pro-Nazi sympathies, or Holocaust denial.'
The committee voted it down, with one member telling the Texas Tribune that the word "anti-Semitism" was a "slippery slope." Another Republican, Texas Senator Bob Hall (not on the committee), told the Texas Tribune
"that the Texas Republicans should have the flexibility to meet with Nazis and anti-Semites. 'I've had meetings with transgenders, gays and lesbians,' Hall said. “Does that make me a transgender, gay or a lesbian?' Asked if he was comparing LGBTQ people to white supremacists, Hall said they are all people 'who are political hot potatoes.'"
Legum also reminds us that the Texas Republican Party in January 2021 adopted the QAnon slogan "We are the Storm" and in June 2022 adopted a platform "adopted a platform that described homosexuality as 'an abnormal lifestyle choice.'"
March 2024
Here's J.K. Rowling saying that the Nazis' arson on Magnus Hirschfeld's library "might've been a fever dream" of people who today remember it.
Rivkah Brown works at Novara Media.
On March 13, Alejandra Caraballo said:
Those two links:
- New Research Reveals How the Nazis Targeted Transgender People: Last year, a German court acknowledged the possibility that trans people were persecuted by the Nazis, Laurie Marhoefer, The Conversation, September 21, 2023
- Magnus Hirschfeld, Holocaust Encyclopedia
Rowling accused her of "lying," because trans people were not necessarily the Nazis' first victims nor were necessarily all their books burned — stronger points that Caraballo apparently did not say.
Though someone else in Rowling's replies did say that trans people were the first victims, that person had "no apparent connection to the original poster, Caraballo or anyone else." (Gemma Stone)
After someone else asked Rowling to "google Magnus Hirschfield," whose library the Nazis burned, Rowling accused them of wanting to use Hirschfeld as the model for "trans medicine."
Now the goalpost is to show that Nazi persecution based on sexuality was somehow "distinct" from their persecution based on gender. This is going to be difficult since, if a persecutor wants to portray a trans person as gay, they will do so, citing either the trans person's pre-transition or post-transition gender (and regardless of how the trans person identifies, including whether they are asexual), and also since now the goalpost is not to prove whether the Nazis persecuted trans people but exactly what the Nazis said or thought about the trans people while they did so, because if the Nazis said "gay" rather than "trans," the trans people somehow become un-murdered. This is a classic of intersectionalism: people siding with the oppressors by saying that, since a multiply marginalized person may not be able to prove on which marginalized trait they're being discriminated against at any given moment, they aren't permitted to claim discrimination at all.
Even supposing that the Nazis did not have a concept of trans and/or did not object to trans people existing that they only knew of and targeted gay people, the fact that the Nazis' targeting of gay people resulted in catching and killing trans people too would be important to note.
Outcome:
On April 15, Brown tweeted: "On 13 March I tweeted that JK Rowling 'is a Holocaust denier'. That allegation was false and offensive. I have deleted it and apologise to JK Rowling." (Evidently, Rowling legally threatened Brown into posting this "apology.")
Observation: "The only person JK Rowling threatened legally for calling out her holocaust denialism is a Jewish reporter.
There is already legal precedent in Germany that denying trans people were targeted by the Nazis is a form of holocaust denial." (Alejandra Caraballo, Mastodon)
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