I don’t think Donald Trump made people more racist or antisemitic; I think he gave them permission to express it.
Violence Against Transgender People is on the Rise, Stopping it Requires a Holistic Solution
Just Security
By Heron Greenesmith
October 18, 2022
In late July, drag queen Patty Bourrée was reading a children’s book and playing the ukulele at a story hour event in Boston, Mass. when a group of masked neo-Nazis stormed the event. Bourrée is doing just fine, but she’s concerned about the children who had to walk among neo-Nazis chanting anti-transgender, anti-LGBTQ slurs and about the parents who brought their children to the small, regularly-held, and popular event.So when Bourrée pulled up to her next event, planned for the first weekend of August, and saw the same neo-Nazis lurking outside, she knew she had to cancel. “I can’t put myself (and the kids!) in a potentially violent situation,” she said on Twitter. According to Bourrée, every drag queen story hour in the past few months has received some level of anti-LGBT attention. Local media has documented a sharp uptick in neo-Nazi activity in 2022, including from NSC-131, the group that targeted Bourrée.
Neo-Nazis in Boston. Proud Boys in California. Anti-trans rhetoric in the Buffalo shooter’s manifesto. Accusations about grooming. Panic over recruitment. A headline from The Daily Signal, the Heritage Foundation’s news outlet, warns that “‘A Drag Queen in Every School’ Is Modern Left’s ‘Chicken in Every Pot.’” Violent anti-LGBT (and specifically anti-transgender) rhetoric is increasing across the country and around the globe, explicitly stoked by the Christian Right and right-wing media with exclusionary and exterminationist language. Increasingly, this exterminationist rhetoric has been followed up with physical violence, and members of violent far-right groups are using the issue to recruit new followers.
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Radicalizing Against Transgender People
Anti-transgender rhetoric is one of the most successful modern radicalization techniques of the far right, from the Christian Right organizations calling for an end to trans-affirming care and nondiscrimination protections, to social media luminaries targeting children’s hospitals by drawing names from a hat. Trans people are always the villain.
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State Violence
Finally, with the passage of multiple laws banning transgender children’s access to trans-affirming care or scholastic sports, state violence against trans people has multiplied. In their lawsuit against the state of Texas, the “Voe” family (a pseudonym for the litigation) alleges their child attempted suicide shortly after Governor Greg Abbot issued an order authorizing the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate the parents of transgender children the for child abuse. A state court later ordered the Department to cease enforcement of the Governor’s order.
Their answer to the violence,
Supporting Leaders, Organizations, and Networks of Safety
What response is called for in answer to this increase in violence? While law enforcement involvement might feel prudent, transgender and gender nonconforming people, particularly Black transgender women, have long been targeted by law enforcement for mistreatment and over-policing and over-incarceration. Likewise, the enforcement of hate-crimes legislation has been shown, anecdotally and empirically, to disproportionately impact Black people, while simultaneously failing to address the current rise in hate crimes. The meager, if any, benefit to the solving of these crimes (not to mention anything about law enforcement’s abject failure to prevent violence against LGBTQ people) is utterly outweighed by the violent impacts of law enforcement on the trans community. In fact, law enforcement’s treatment of transgender people, particularly Black transgender women, should itself be considered state violence.
I agree, Hilary Clinton was right, “It takes a village.” not just laws but civic organizations, religious institutions, schools, families… everyone!
You can’t sit this out, it is your civic responsibility to speak out against the violence and
More and more it is the Republican party that is stirring up enmity against us and Jews.
US politics’ post-shame era: how Republicans became the party of h**e+
Far from entering the midterms as the party of tolerance, diversity and sincerity, critics say, the Republican party has shown itself to be the opposite
The Guardian
By David Smith
October 23, 2022
Republicans were in trouble. Mitt Romney, their US presidential nominee, had been crushed by Barack Obama. The party commissioned an “autopsy” report that proposed a radical rethink. “If we want ethnic minority voters to support Republicans,” it said, “we have to engage them and show our sincerity.”Ten years after Romney’s loss, Republicans are fighting their first election since the presidency of Donald Trump. But far from entering next month’s midterms as the party of tolerance, diversity and sincerity, critics say, they have shown itself to be unapologetically the party of h**e+.
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The first of this unholy trinity referred to Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, who has recently drawn fierce criticism for wearing a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt at Paris fashion week and for antisemitic messages on social media, including one that said he would soon go…+
He then called for hostility against a religion.
The second was billionaire Elon Musk, who published a pro-Russian peace plan for Ukraine and denied reports that he had been speaking to the Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin.
The third was former president Donald Trump, who wrote last weekend that American J*ws have offered insufficient praise of his policies toward Israel, warning that they need to “get their act together” before “it is too late!” The comment played into the antisemitic prejudice that American Jews have dual loyalties to the US and Israel.
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Indeed, Trump did more than anyone to turn the 2013 autopsy on its head. In his first run for president, he referred to Mexicans as criminals, drug dealers and rapists and pledged to build a border wall and impose a Muslim ban. Opponents suggest that he liberated Republicans to say the unsayable, rail against so-called political correctness and give supporters the thrill of transgression.
And look what Trump name the COVID virus which resulted in an increase of violence against the Asian community.
Vote Democratic!
+ My blog is being reported to Blogger and I have received a “warning" ‘This post was put behind a warning for readers because it contains sensitive content as outlined in Blogger’s’ so I have been overly concerned about it happening again.
Today is a travel day, I'm coming back home to Connecticut. I have all my appointments lined up for the next couple of weeks.
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