Paul Cantrell
A dire warning for everyone in the “LGB” part of who thought they could keep themselves safe from the fash by throwing “TQIA+” under the bus:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/republicans-same-sex-marriage
And if you’re none of the above, I promise you, whatever •your• letter is, they’re coming for yours sooner than you think. Stop them now or pay later.
𝚝𝚓𝚠
@inthehands all those brainless center-left transphobes who thought there was a contingency of pro-LGB but not T people out there that Dems should appeal to are gonna find out real quick that those people are simply anti-LGBT.
Paul Cantrell
@thomasjwebb
Yeah, there is in particular a coterie of Democratic strategy consultants who are stuck in this mindset. And there’s plenty of people wandering around the halls of the party labyrinth who get, too, but not enough. Never enough.
Paul Cantrell
Something that makes fascism a particularly pernicious form of authoritarianism is that it doesn’t just need the population crushed and subservient; it needs to •keep actively destroying• whole subsets of the population in order to stay alive.
Fascism is a fire. Its fuel is the othering of minority groups; its oxygen is fear. It will keep finding — creating, if necessary — more and more “others,” without limit. Unless you cut off that oxygen or that fuel, it will keeping burning until there’s nobody left.
Paul Cantrell
When you all saw the Republican campaigns go straight for the throat of trans people and immigrants — all those horrid commercials, all those lies, just straight for the jugular of highly vulnerable people who aren’t hurting anyone — that should have been your alarm bell.
A vulnerable population portrayed as the reviled “other” + fear. That it’s it. That’s your alarm bell. That’s all the warning you get.
If you didn’t recognize that pattern right away, I don't know…go do some work on your own head.
Paul Cantrell
And I mean…look, if you •are• a transphobe or a xenophobe, (1) ew, wtf, but also (2) do you really think you’re safe just because they’re targeting people you don’t like?
If you see the curtains in your living room going up in flames, do you think to yourself, “Eh, let them burn! I never liked those curtains anyway! I’m •sure• the rest of the house is safe if we just let the fire go!”???
quixote
@inthehands Well, women aren't exactly a minority group, but I know what you mean. Misogyny is the leading indicator. The practice ground for inflicting humiliation. (The current crew aren't slackers in this. At all.) It's the easiest place, right at home, right where you work, right on the streets you use every day, to implement your longing for might to make right.
Paul Cantrell
@quixote
For sure. Abuser behavior so often surfaces first against women.
Paul Cantrell
@Darth_Tiktaalik
Yeah, people hearing that story don’t realize the miserable story of its author. Instead of “I said nothing” it should read “I cheered them on.”
Darth Tiktaalik
@inthehands This is actually what that "first they came for" poem was about, it was written by an antisemite who voted for Nazis but eventually found himself on the hostile end of nazi ideology.
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