• Plus_a_Grain_of_Salt@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    It’s terrifying to witness active dehumanization in a nation that supposedly wants you to live your best life. They’ll try to convince the whole nation that trans folk aren’t people, aren’t human, we can’t let them. Once they’re not human, they can get away with anything they do to them. If you see these efforts to dehumanize any group, no matter where you are, try to be brave because you never know when you’re next.

    • Edgerunner Alexis@dataterm.digital
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      1 year ago

      As a trans woman it’s really fun getting to be the minority that it’s totally okay to just openly hate and dehumanize, the right’s newest whipping girl ;-;

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      1 year ago
      First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
           Because I was not a socialist.
      
      Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
           Because I was not a trade unionist.
      
      Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
           Because I was not a Jew.
      
      Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
      
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        I’ll never forget this poem, it really shaped my perspective on speaking up sooner rather than later. There was another poem that echoed similar sentiments, but I can only remember the line “I will not be an agent of death.”