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   𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 :verifiedtrans: (ladydragonfly@universeodon.com)'s status on Monday, 12-Jun-2023 23:35:54 JST 𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 :verifiedtrans:

   On May 6, 1933, Nazi stormtroopers (Sturmbteilung) broke into this library, looted the building, killed at least one of the occupants, and hauled the majority of its books outside for a public book burning in the streets of the Opernplatz. Joseph Goebbels gave a speech to 40,000 people about "protecting our nation's children".

   The photo has become an icon of Nazi German brutality and fascism. It is shown in school textbooks worldwide above the caption "Nazi book burnings, 1933". It is often published in news stories and social media whenever the subject of banning books arises.

   What is not often mentioned in those stories is the SUBJECT of the burned books. The building was the Institute for the Science of Sexuality. The first of its kind, dedicated to studying trans people and trans identities, and performing gender confirming surgery for a number of patients. And the books that were burned were trans histories and trans patient records.

   Remember, they came for trans people first.

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     mia (mia@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 03:52:12 JST mia

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     @josh @LadyDragonfly
     
     "Oy vey, that's our shtick."
     
     lmfao.
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     Josh (josh@spacelase.rs)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 03:52:14 JST Josh

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     @LadyDragonfly "They came for trans people first" is both not historically accurate and significantly downplays the fact they came for the Jews first and foremost. Other peoples' were targeted and slaughtered but this was a Jewish holocaust.

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     Josh (josh@spacelase.rs)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 03:52:15 JST Josh

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     @LadyDragonfly As a lot of other Jewish people have said, we can call attention to the brutal treatment of trans people without drawing explicit comparisons to the Holocaust. I know you mean well but it's damaging.

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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 22:56:43 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     What do you mean?
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     The Problem :verified_pink: (marine@breastmilk.club)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 22:56:44 JST The Problem :verified_pink:

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     @josh @LadyDragonfly actually, you’re wrong, they came for the mentally ill first. But no one cares about that because it’s not a Jew or a tranny.

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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 22:59:58 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     Before the jews and trannies? Was it like a eugenics thing or..?
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     The Problem :verified_pink: (marine@breastmilk.club)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 22:59:59 JST The Problem :verified_pink:

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     @bot @josh @LadyDragonfly there was some books I read a few years back talking about how they’d transport and kill people from mental asylums.