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Slayer_22 posted...

I don't think 4 and 6 are comparable to pre-holocaust anti-jewish propaganda and dehumanization personally. I think it's bad, and downright sickening, the way people speak of transgender individuals. But it's not comparable to that.

The thing about a genocide is that people on the receiving end gain absolutely no ground by it being weighed against the holocaust. The holocaust is the most well known genocide, but it's not the standard by which a genocide is actually defined.

The rhetoric surrounding trans people from right wing politicians and media outlets has a pretty clear message: they don't like them, and don't want them to be able to participate or exist in society. It's propaganda solely designed to make viewers uncomfortable with trans people by painting them as weirdos, rapists, creeps, and mentally ill.

The end result of this is barring trans kids from getting the gender affirming care they need, and classifying this care as child abuse so you can rip apart their family. Which often just ends up in suicide for these kids, but hey, why pull the trigger on someone when you can get them to do it themselves, then spend 5 minutes talking about what a tragedy that is?

And that's to say nothing of the bills popping up that want to limit what type of gendered clothing you can wear to go after drag shows, don't say gay bills, etc. There's a whole frame work already being built for pushing trans people back into the closet and away from society.

Anyway, this was just a long winded way of saying that something doesn't have to be as bad as the holocaust to be a genocide. There are other ways of getting rid of a population of people that don't involve death camps.