• OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    The first books the Nazis burned were scientific research notes about trans people.

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      The first books the Nazis burned were scientific research notes about trans people

      Impressive that it is actually true, I thought it is an exaggeration. From Wikipedia:

      On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party, came to power

      On 6 May 1933, a group of students … the students proceeded to shout “Brenne Hirschfeld!” (“Burn Hirschfeld!”) while ransacking and vandalizing the Institute, tearing pictures from the walls, pouring inkwells onto carpets, and destroying exhibitions while the band played outside.

      src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_people_in_Nazi_Germany

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        Yeah, when they teach about book burnings they never mention that fact. It also serves as a reminder that trans people are not just a modern phenomenon. The Nazis’ reasons for targeting trans people then are the same as right-wingers today, they look for a small, marginalized group and seize on existing prejudice to sow division and divide and conquer. The Nazis claimed trans people were a Jewish plot to weaken and destroy the Ayran race, and you can still see echos of that in some right-wing rhetoric today.

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        Hey there. Just letting you know that in general trans people and their allies absolutely do not want to be the center of public attention like this. They didn’t ask for it.

        You’re right, there’s no good reason everyone should be so completely focused on them as a group. But that wasn’t their choice. That was the choice Nazis made when the first books they burned were about gender and sexuality.

        That was the choice Nazis made when they spent the last decade and the foreseeable future demonizing and discriminating against transgender people.

        Not because they asked for it. Not because they deserve it. But because they are the easiest target. Small in numbers. Complex by nature. Difficult to understand for the uninformed and the disinformed. “Different.”

        They don’t consider themselves the center of the universe. Bigots do. Bigots have decided that transgender issues should be the thing everyone cares about right now. If you want to blame anyone, blame them.

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          “You’re right, there’s no good reason everyone should be so completely focused on them as a group.” For me trans or asexual or whatever it’s like see the rain, DON’T CARE. But It’s very annoying that you get constantly bombarded by propaganda 24/7 when I sincerely don’t fucking care. And it’s not like “yeah if you aren’t A or B so you don’t listen this you wouldn’t be affected” it doesn’t work like that. You are the only one that partially understand my intention of normalize trans or LGBT.

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        You came into a discussion about trans topics being censored and are angry that trans people are being discusses? Do you think this thread is the “fucking center of the universe”?

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          No, I got angry of the fcking topic 24-7. I got angry of the eternal victimization when I do not fucking care about your stupid war against bigots or whatever they call. I got angry that LGBT is used as a tool for big tech in order to sell mediocre products. I got angry bc LGBT feels good with this reality. I got angry that real and current problematic is not confronted and taking into consideration something that passed when even my gparents werent alive. Why the fuck do I have to listen this shit when I have nothing to do with this!!!

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            You do not have any self control. You are putting yourself in these positions. This is the Internet. You could just find something else, but I have the feeling your the one with a prosecution complex.

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              Yeah could be, but it happens even when I am not actively looking for topic. Right now “you can buy produce directly from black farmers” ehm, what? aren’t you seeing the problem here?

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                Oh no. You got reminded black people exist. Your day has been ruined.

                Get a life and find a therapist.

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        How dare I inform people about objective historical facts that relate to modern day news stories 🙄

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        A take so dumb, wrong and out of context that I don’t know how to respond to it. Wow

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        It’s objectively true that the German nazi party first went after gender studies they didn’t like. It wasn’t called transgender at the time, but that’s what we call it today.

        I’m a straight white dude and it takes very little thinking to see that trans people are being targeted as “the other” again. So, not kindly, go fuck yourself.