Post ATLSaeXhf9LlxBpuPQ by willallen@blacksun.social
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 (DIR) Post #ATLSaeXhf9LlxBpuPQ by willallen@blacksun.social
       2023-03-06T16:42:11Z
       
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       During one genocidal episode in World War II, all of the residents of a village known for its anti-Nazi attitudes were forced to leave their homes.  All of them.  All the boys and men over age 15 were summarily executed.  The girls and women were taken to a concentration camp.  The young children?  If they were pretty enough, and deemed to have a reasonable temperament, they were adopted to "good German families."I mention this because in Florida, there is a bill that would allow the state to take children away from parents if the parents support the children's gender affirming interventions.  Also, there was that bit where a prominent Republican called for genocide against transgender people.  To applause.So...When do you think it's time for you to... at the very least... completely ostracize anyone in your life who supports any Republican in any way?Is that maybe the least you could do to prevent a holocaust?  Could you shake your life up a little and take the risk of your family disapproving of you?I think maybe that's the minimum an ally could do.#transgender #fascism #politics
       
 (DIR) Post #ATLdzY3zzJQ6av12xc by natasha514b@toad.social
       2023-03-06T17:15:35Z
       
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       @willallen One doesn’t have to go all the way back to the years of WWII to find children being removed from their homes  and taken away to be adopted by “good families.” It’s happening today to thousands of Ukrainian children who have been abducted, taken to russia, and adopted. Some were lured away with offers of a free summer camp and never returned. Children everywhere  need advocates to protect their most basic  rights.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATLnO78S8tGDuBt6ye by ML2@akkoma.sandhill.social
       2023-03-06T20:55:58.287907Z
       
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       @willallen I myself draw a personal line at bigots and those supporting bigots, and I fortunately don’t know anyone at the moment IRL who is a bigot, let alone anyone who would agree with the GOP’s fascist agitation against trans people merely existing. (I live in a blue state, albeit a rural region thereof, that is far, far away from Florida, and my family is left-leaning.)Unfortunately, I don’t think mere social ostracism, either of bigots or GOP supporters, would have any real effect in stopping this. People like DeSantis, their close colleagues, the conservative pundits, and their ardent followers live in a giant parallel social bubble of like-minded hatefulness, and they cultivate few, if any, relationships with people outside that bubble. Even if every person in the US calling themselves a trans ally ostracized every single person they knew of as having ever voted for any GOP candidate even in a local election, it would not stop those monsters from continuing down their fascist path because they aren’t going to be the ones feeling the social pressure, and it would not affect their supporters because a lot of them are similarly socially insulated. Furthermore, when people are that neck deep in extremism and aren’t insulated, isolating them tends to just drive them further into the right-wing insanity complex because irrational people aren’t going to reflect on things like this.What we absolutely need to do is to oppose these bills in the legislature and fight them in the courts if they do become law, boycott businesses and individuals that give money to the people and groups doing this fascist agitation (economic ostracism is much more effective than social ostracism for the monsters responsible for this), and both vote against the GOP and call upon others to do the same.