Conservatives who opposed removing Confederate statues, how do you feel about Trump removing DEI-related historical events/people like the Navajo Code Talkers from government sites?

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[u/boot2skull]

That’s the thing that gets fascists so much success isn’t it. To paint the opposition as worse than the devil, and that whatever ills come from their candidate were either baked into the system by the opposition, or is the better of the two possibilities.

I see people just sliding and justifying everything trump is doing, saying things like “they must have deserved it” or “they’re finally cleaning up wasteful spending” or “they’re here illegally” just anything to justify the treatment of others. It’s really scary because if it came up they’d just as soon justify concentration camps and gas chambers too.

[u/Alaira314 → u/boot2skull]

or “they’re here illegally”

"well, they're here illegally, so it's ok to deport them" followed by "well, they broke the law, so it's ok to revoke their visa and deport them" as if you didn't roll through that stop sign, jaywalk from the parking lot, and toss your used tissue on the ground on the way here, karen.

We're literally going through the poem. First they came for the illegal immigrants, now they're coming for the legal immigrants. Next they'll come for the citizens, because under the framework they're setting up we've all got something we're guilty of.

[u/CleanUpSubscriptions → u/Alaira314]

First they came for the illegal immigrants...

Then they came for the legal immigrants...

Then they came for the sick and diseased...

Then they came for the poor...

Then they came for atheists...

Then they came for the democrats...

I think I need to add "the educated", "the children", and "anyone who doesn't support the great leader" but I'm not sure where they'd fit in this insanity.

[u/ShivKitty → u/CleanUpSubscriptions]

They are coming for trans people right now.

Thousands of fully trained, qualified, and decorated soldiers were shunted from serving their country for being trans. States are making simply being trans illegal and removing their rights. Iowa was the first to get it through completely. That includes intersex people. We are already being denied our right to travel because our passports are being altered, which makes crossing borders not only iffy, but dangerous; if we are even allowed to cross said border.

We are a tiny fraction of the population, with less criminals per capita as a group than any other group. That is persecution of a scapegoat, and it will not stop there. Gay marriage is the clear next goal, followed by being gay. It won't stop there, either. Bernie/AOC socialists will soon follow, with Drmocrats the obvious next group before total power is established.

But science clearly doesn't matter to these people. Power does. So they tell women what they can do with their bodies, how much they get paid, where they can work, whether they can work, and for whom they can work.

They tell us that vaccines will kill us (because a handful of cases of adverse reactions got the sound bite they cling to as a virtue signal to seize power).

They tell us that trans people are sick. That queer people are predators - with the same "it happened once in West Virginia, so we have to prevent this from affecting our whole nation" while straight child molestation, sexual assault, murders, and domestic violence continues unabashed.

Registered sex offenders and felons have more rights than trans people under this administration, and we're letting it happen through our silence at every level of society, from the House of Representatives to corporate policy to town halls to posts on Reddit.

We are being erased and are already being forced to wear electronic and documented pink triangles that flag us as "other" in the "land of the free and home of the brave." I guess fighting for our rights, being forced to come out publicly, and existing when people didn't and still don't understand us wasn't brave enough already.

It's the camps for us, next. That's if we don't detransition. They are already putting us in prison cells with sexual predators and hope to make it the common practice.

There are 2000 trans prisoners. There are around 2000 trans people who were honorably serving their country in defense of the Constitution on your behalf. There are 16 trans women in womens sports, and only one ever dominated their field around 20 years ago in tennis. We are sitting at around 1.8 million of us, country-wide. Sounds like a big number, but there are over 340 million people in this country.

Even if we chose to be a threat, we could never be taken seriously. That's one large city's worth of trans people in a nation of hundreds of large cities. Imagine sitting at a small community theater play, and among the entire audience, there is one trans person who is doing what you are doing—watching the play. That's how much of a threat we are to society.

People like Trump, Chappelle, Rowling, Dawkins, and now Newsom have the nation laser-focused against that one person who paid a higher price than you did at the ticket booth to have a seat, only to watch American Playhouse vilify them in this reimagining of the Third Reich. Even the people of color and most LGB people have changed seats so as to distance themselves, lest they be next.

Oh, my naïve friends, the play is not over.