Current Events > Are Republican lawmakers genocidal?

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ZMythos
03/03/23 9:06:57 AM
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We're seeing that publicly expressed anti-trans sentiment has skyrocketed in the past decade. Conservatives are getting much more brazen in their open bigotry against trans people. Bills are being drafted and passed that criminalize gender affirming care and education, make it illegal to dress in drag (even though this isn't a trans-exclusive practice, it's clearly targeting trans people), protect people who assault/murder trans people, and even now bills that literally define trans people out of existence.

Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people and/or culture. These kinds of bills are designed to either increase the suicide rate and murder rate of trans people, or write them off as not even people with rights. Sounds pretty genocidal to me.

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Jagr_68
03/03/23 9:07:55 AM
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Yes.

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Doom_Art
03/03/23 9:14:00 AM
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Yes

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DrizztLink
03/03/23 9:14:14 AM
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Ye

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Iron-Tarkus
03/03/23 9:16:19 AM
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Yes

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CyricZ
03/03/23 9:17:15 AM
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Yes.

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FaultyCircuitry
03/03/23 9:17:31 AM
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Undoubtedly so.

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Chicken
03/03/23 9:17:32 AM
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They dont see the people theyre destroying as people.

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A_Good_Boy
03/03/23 9:17:39 AM
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Absolutely

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CARRRNE_ASADA
03/03/23 9:18:12 AM
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Ahh but its easier to go after a game than boycott or protest these politicians

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ScazarMeltex
03/03/23 9:19:52 AM
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Absolutely.

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Iron-Tarkus
03/03/23 9:21:02 AM
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CARRRNE_ASADA posted...
Ahh but its easier to go after a game than boycott or protest these politicians
What bridge have you been living under?

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Feyniphia
03/03/23 9:22:31 AM
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Definitely the worst kind of politicians since WW2.
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CyricZ
03/03/23 9:32:42 AM
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CARRRNE_ASADA posted...
Ahh but its easier to go after a game than boycott or protest these politicians
What do you do.

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ScazarMeltex
03/03/23 9:46:08 AM
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CyricZ posted...
What do you do.
Defend yourself and your community against the violence they incite by any and all means available to you.

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ZevLoveDOOM
03/03/23 9:49:05 AM
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yeah, these dudes are borderline evil, ain't no "ifs" or "buts" about it.

it's already bad enough for trans people out there and seems like they're making their best efforts to make it even worse for them... smh
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SenlinRescinds
03/03/23 9:50:47 AM
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Isn't the US being officially investigated for genocide?

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the_pika
03/03/23 9:52:17 AM
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Yes : anti trans, anti gay, anti Hispanic, anti black
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AldousIsDead
03/03/23 9:52:18 AM
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Look, if you gave them a button that said "Kill all trans people" how long do you think it would take until someone pressed it?

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Iron-Tarkus
03/03/23 9:53:18 AM
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ZevLoveDOOM posted...
yeah, these dudes are borderline evil, ain't no "ifs" or "buts" about it.

it's already bad enough for trans people out there and seems like they're making their best efforts to make it even worse for them... smh
Id cut out the borderline. Its not just trans people either theyre just more socially acceptable to go after. Its LGBT people in general theyre against

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AloneIBreak
03/03/23 10:01:02 AM
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CARRRNE_ASADA posted...
Ahh but its easier to go after a game than boycott or protest these politicians
Youre correct, but youre fighting a losing battle here. These people really think theyre doing something and that it has incredibly high moral value.

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SenlinRescinds
03/03/23 10:02:44 AM
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AloneIBreak posted...
Youre correct, but youre fighting a losing battle here. These people really think theyre doing something and that it has incredibly high moral value.
Going after the game was a great way to get the message out. Some people definitely took it too far, reasonable people were only asking that people try to avoid giving money to the devs.

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cjsdowg
03/03/23 10:05:32 AM
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Yes and the big issue is that many people are scared to go there. Republicans have literally tried to outlaw Trans people and brought back Jim Crow in some areas. But people are the left are too scared to say so

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bluezero
03/03/23 10:07:54 AM
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the_pika posted...
Yes : anti trans, anti gay, anti Hispanic, anti black
Anti-voter also

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wackyteen
03/03/23 10:10:01 AM
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AldousIsDead posted...
Look, if you gave them a button that said "Kill all trans people" how long do you think it would take until someone pressed it?
They hit the button so fast it broke the space-time continuum

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Iron-Tarkus
03/03/23 10:10:45 AM
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wackyteen posted...
They hit the button so fast it broke the space-time continuum
im actually my ghost posting they got me ages ago

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Master_Bass
03/03/23 10:11:48 AM
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Jagr_68 posted...
Yes.


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Medussa
03/03/23 10:12:16 AM
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wackyteen posted...
They hit the button so fast it broke the space-time continuum


most of them probably try to convince someone else to push the button. they want to, but they're mostly cowards. mostly. they'll find someone, though, no doubts there.

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McMarbles
03/03/23 10:12:39 AM
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Jagr_68 posted...
Yes.


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IfGodCouldDie
03/03/23 10:18:23 AM
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the_pika posted...
Yes : anti trans, anti gay, anti Hispanic, anti black
Anti-American

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Questionmarktarius
03/03/23 10:32:27 AM
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The party is a mess of reactionism and scapegoats right now.
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CyricZ
03/03/23 10:52:25 AM
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ScazarMeltex posted...
Defend yourself and your community against the violence they incite by any and all means available to you.
Actually that question was directed specifically to Carne.

From what I've seen of his posts, he has far more to complain about how people get active than being active himself. I want to know what he does, if anything, apart from complaining at activists.

Regardless, activism is key at the policy level, but shouldn't stop there. There's a reason these people get elected. There needs to be community outreach as well as just striking at politicians.

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MedeaLysistrata
03/03/23 10:56:12 AM
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i honestly don't know. i want to say they're just bigoted but stuff like this usually happens fast.

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specialkid8
03/03/23 11:02:25 AM
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Genocide is a real word with a real definition with serious ramifications. Y'all need to stop throwing it around like it's your new fucking catchphrase.

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SenlinRescinds
03/03/23 11:09:25 AM
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specialkid8 posted...
Genocide is a real word with a real definition with serious ramifications. Y'all need to stop throwing it around like it's your new fucking catchphrase.
The US is literally considered to be committing genocide against trans people.

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FaultyCircuitry
03/03/23 11:14:12 AM
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specialkid8 posted...
Genocide is a real word with a real definition with serious ramifications. Y'all need to stop throwing it around like it's your new fucking catchphrase.

Yeah, we are aware. This isn't genocide in the sense of mass slaughter of all people of a given group, but genocide through doing their damnedest to ensure trans people are killed by doctors refusing provide care, denying our ability to provide for themselves financially, denying us housing.

These are all things meant to slowly bleed us to death.

It is and always will be genocide.


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CyricZ
03/03/23 11:26:18 AM
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specialkid8 posted...
Genocide is a real word with a real definition with serious ramifications. Y'all need to stop throwing it around like it's your new fucking catchphrase.
Perhaps you need to think about the idea of genocide outside of the one of them that you can recall.

Because there have been many others, some ongoing.

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VampireCoyote
03/03/23 11:33:42 AM
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They want trans people to stop existing

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ScazarMeltex
03/03/23 11:34:03 AM
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The dude is one of those people who doesn't know anything about genocide in the academic sense. If it's not mass graves or grave chambers it's can't be a genocide to people like that.

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youenjoymyself1
03/03/23 11:35:30 AM
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specialkid8 posted...
Genocide is a real word with a real definition with serious ramifications. Y'all need to stop throwing it around like it's your new fucking catchphrase.

They'll throw it around until like this until MW changes the definition.
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Gwynevere
03/03/23 11:37:44 AM
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youenjoymyself1 posted...
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Wow, rude

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SenlinRescinds
03/03/23 11:39:10 AM
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youenjoymyself1 posted...
They'll throw it around until like this until MW changes the definition.
We're using it correctly.

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Intro2Logic
03/03/23 11:42:17 AM
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For the record, this is the current, existing definition
the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group

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ScazarMeltex
03/03/23 11:43:17 AM
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youenjoymyself1 posted...
They'll throw it around until like this until MW changes the definition.
Tell us what you think it means.
The definition contained in Article II of the Convention describes genocide as a crime committed with the intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, in whole or in part.
To which I'm sure the smoothbrains will be like "they aren't a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group". Which might be true, but neither were the LGBTQ people who died as part of the holocaust but it was absolutely still victims of a genocide that targeted them specifically. Plus if your only defense is "well technically they aren't national, ethnic, racial, or religious group so it can't be a genocide" you are a shit person and can fuck right off.
https://www.hmd.org.uk/learn-about-the-holocaust-and-genocides/what-is-genocide/the-ten-stages-of-genocide/
We are on step 7. The early stages of step 8 in some places.

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Questionmarktarius
03/03/23 11:49:14 AM
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ScazarMeltex posted...
To which I'm sure the smoothbrains will be like "they aren't a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group".
the absolute holy war over that dumb harry potter game, though...
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youenjoymyself1
03/03/23 11:50:30 AM
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ScazarMeltex posted...
Tell us what you think it means.

Tell me how you the government should go about destroying the GOP. Then we can continue.
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RchHomieQuanChi
03/03/23 11:54:48 AM
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The Trump era of U.S. politics allowed Republicans to go full mask off when it comes to social policy, rather than trying to subtly slide their bigotry through

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