He hasn’t been shy about talking about trans people. He’s guided by the applause lines, constantly a/b testing which ones get him a bigger response, and since the ecosystem of the right has been building us up as the new bad guy, the crowd loves to be reminded that they should be mad about us.
I learned how dangerous dehumanization is when I went on a tour of the Holocaust Museum in DC. (SIde note: I recommend going there. It’s not a “happy” place to visit, but it’s an important one. Give yourself half a day for the museum and half a day to mentally recover. )
At one point, you can go through or around one of the train cars that transported Jews to the death camps. I walked inside and stopped. The plaque had said how many people were crammed inside, but I couldn’t mentally fit that many people in the train car.
Then, I realized my mistake. I was trying to fit PEOPLE. Even though the people I was trying to fit in were imaginary, I was still treating them like people. Once I tried fitting human shaped objects into the train car, I could easily fit that many.
Once you dehumanize a group of people, the door is opened to do anything you want to them because all societal guardrails for the treatment of your fellow humans are removed.
There is a very interesting debate raging at the moment about the nature of sin, for example,” said Oats.
“And what do they think? Against it, are they?” said Granny Weatherwax.
“It’s not as simple as that. It’s not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of gray.”
“Nope.”
"Pardon?”
“There’s no grays, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.
"It’s a lot more complicated than that . . .”
“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”
“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes . . .”
“But they starts with thinking about people as things . . . ”
Well at least “mutant” carries the recognition that it’s not a matter of choice. If the tiny trans population is solely responsible for the indictment, then surely that means we’re superior mutants at that 😏
Fucking stupid republican probably doesn’t realize the irony in calling trans people Marvel comic “mutants”. The mutants were mistreated by conservatives in those books and rounded up and sent to camps. A holocaust survivor championed their cause leading many to fight back against the human Nazis.
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How long until conservatives try to cancel Marvel for spreading pro-mutant propaganda?
Better a mutant than a Nazi, so nyah :P
That must be why Republicans are trying so hard to reduce the budget. They want to free up money so they can spend it building Sentinels.
Is this a Deadpool 3 leak?
He hasn’t been shy about talking about trans people. He’s guided by the applause lines, constantly a/b testing which ones get him a bigger response, and since the ecosystem of the right has been building us up as the new bad guy, the crowd loves to be reminded that they should be mad about us.
Dehumanization is a page straight out of the authoritarian handbook.
I learned how dangerous dehumanization is when I went on a tour of the Holocaust Museum in DC. (SIde note: I recommend going there. It’s not a “happy” place to visit, but it’s an important one. Give yourself half a day for the museum and half a day to mentally recover. )
At one point, you can go through or around one of the train cars that transported Jews to the death camps. I walked inside and stopped. The plaque had said how many people were crammed inside, but I couldn’t mentally fit that many people in the train car.
Then, I realized my mistake. I was trying to fit PEOPLE. Even though the people I was trying to fit in were imaginary, I was still treating them like people. Once I tried fitting human shaped objects into the train car, I could easily fit that many.
Once you dehumanize a group of people, the door is opened to do anything you want to them because all societal guardrails for the treatment of your fellow humans are removed.
Relevant Pratchett passage:
— Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
This unfortunately is a new dog whistle for trans individuals :(
See here: https://www.politico.com/video/2023/04/11/florida-republican-calls-transgender-people-mutants-881289
Considering the traditional stories and plot points central to the X-Men comic/series this is kinda ironic
Republicans talking about Trans people like Nazis talking about Jews episode #853
More like “Republicans talking about Trans people like Nazis talking about Trans people”
The first of the famous nazi book burnings were targeted at an institute studying and trying to understand trans people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_für_Sexualwissenschaft
jesus christ it keeps getting worse ._.
History be rhyming like it’s Eminem.
Fascists are inherently derivative. That’s why they inevitably burn themselves out, they were all out of ideas to begin with.
This makes a lot of sense. But when I look at terrorist Putin, or Winnie the Poo whatever the fuck, seems like people don’t really care.
“Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.” ― Hannah Arendt
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What does it mean if the X-Men are out to get you?
Probably that you are secretly building killer robots, that will take over the world in the future.
Well at least “mutant” carries the recognition that it’s not a matter of choice. If the tiny trans population is solely responsible for the indictment, then surely that means we’re superior mutants at that 😏
I knew the Xmen were behind all this…
/s
Magneto Was Right
I’m going to be honest but Trump blaming mutants was not on my bingo card. Is it X-Men variety or more TMNT?
The trans kind :(
https://www.politico.com/video/2023/04/11/florida-republican-calls-transgender-people-mutants-881289
Absolutely disgusting language.
Fucking stupid republican probably doesn’t realize the irony in calling trans people Marvel comic “mutants”. The mutants were mistreated by conservatives in those books and rounded up and sent to camps. A holocaust survivor championed their cause leading many to fight back against the human Nazis.
Oh…oh my fucking god. I thought that Trump couldn’t get any lower in my estimation, but here we are.
Going lower than anyone thought was possible is one of the few things Trump excels at.
He HAS to be poorly programmed AI, right?