OK to call TERFs "Nazis," but one is best advised to pepper some Dad Tales from WWII/the Nuremberg Trials throughout these declarations. Not as sexy or damning as queer and trans evisceration during WWII, but tactically illuminating.
— The New Lesbian Pulp (@newlesbianpulp) March 26, 2023
The early 1930s nazi attacks on "transsexual" & gender-diverse people in Berlin, particularly those who were living openly with self-ID certificates, was fired up by claiming they were "youth defilers" (i.e. paedos).
— Pauline Pantsdown (@PPantsdown) March 21, 2023
2020s nazis & Australian anti-trans activists are in lockstep.
🧵Reading the NZ newspapers from 1930-39 is really hard. Because it's incredibly clear that actually, people did see fascism & war coming. They did know about the genocide. And often their response to it was Not Good, ranging from shoulder shrugging to /1
— Hannah Joy Blake (@exfundyfeminist) March 19, 2023
Sylvia Rivera calling out gays and lesbians for their trans exclusion in 1973 at the Christopher Street Liberation Day rally. pic.twitter.com/NFkdHfLlC3
— ᵈᵒˣⁱᵉ❸❻ (@dox_gay) March 23, 2023
The implication is always that it is "us or them". If LGBT people are not eliminated, our country, our civilization will not survive. These people must be destroyed for us to live, and our values to remain.
— Brynn Tannehill (@BrynnTannehill) April 7, 2023
Do you not understand that this is an implicit call for genocide now? pic.twitter.com/JC6WmIVxLn
HOW TO TURN DISCOMFORT INTO GENOCIDAL FASCISM IN SIX EASY STEPS
— He's indicted and it feels so goooooood (@tonygoldmark) July 20, 2022
Step 1: "Those people make me uncomfortable."
Step 2: "Those people probably make everyone uncomfortable."
Step 3: "Those people must be the reason why nobody's comfortable."
Step 4: "If those people didn't exist, everyone would be so much more comfortable."
— He's indicted and it feels so goooooood (@tonygoldmark) July 20, 2022
Step 5: "Getting rid of those people by any means necessary is a small price to pay for comfort."
Step 6: "We got rid of those people and I'm still not comfortable. Must be that OTHER group of people..." Lather rinse repeat.
— He's indicted and it feels so goooooood (@tonygoldmark) July 20, 2022
Most outspoken TERFs are currently somewhere around Step 2 or 3.
HOW TO *NOT* TURN DISCOMFORT INTO GENOCIDAL FASCISM IN TWO SLIGHTLY LESS-EASY STEPS
— He's indicted and it feels so goooooood (@tonygoldmark) July 20, 2022
Step 1: "Those people make me uncomfortable."
Step 2: "Maybe I should just deal with my personal discomfort instead of making it anyone else's problem."
Brynn Tannehill wrote in October 2021 for the Los Angeles Blade:
"When committing cultural genocide, you don’t have to murder people; simply making life so miserable that they flee or go underground is enough.
We can already see these sorts of things happening around the world. In Hungary, which American conservatives hold up as the example of how to do culture wars right, women’s and gender studies programs has been banned, as has recognition of trans and intersex people as a class, and changing gender markers on government documents. In the UK a person making an appointment to see a gender clinic today for an intake appointment can expect to wait approximately 1296 years before being seen, which is tantamount to a ban on medical care. In Russia, Vladimir Putin (whom the religious right also loves) has branded acceptance of trans people a “crime against humanity,” while LGBT people in the country are beaten with impunity by street thugs who support Putin’s moral order.
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