A new study from the Trump administration is sending alarm bells through pro-democracy groups for its potential to fuel a crackdown on Americans who support LGBTQ+ rights — or anyone with left-leaning views.
Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a study that reaches a dramatic conclusion: Those who support transgender people may be more likely to justify political violence. The study also claims that those who agree with statements like “all political conservatives are fools” or “anyone who opposes gay marriage must be homophobic” may also be more likely to support political violence.
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randamumaki@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 6d
And it was sucked entirely out of the demented fool's big toe. There's nothing scientific about the 'study' in question.
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 6d
But, like, they paid for it to be called a study, so it is totally a non-biased study about the link between supporting weirdo-fairy-rights and not liking the people who paid for the study’s point of view. Their feelings matter, therefore we need to accept their absolutely not-bogus study at face value, without any skepticism. Skepticism is the devil.
randamumaki@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 6d
10/10, no notes.
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 6d
It remains to be seen how far the average voter, who has become desensitized to the march towards fascism due to the zone being flooded for 19 months, is willing to stand by and allow us to be pushed closer to the detention centers.
Sounds a bit out there, right? What about the amassing of “evidence” and policy that links our existence and participation in the political process with defacto left-wing terrorism? The Prairieland 9 happened. It was not just the shooter who was convicted; sentences from 30+ years were doled out.
The republicans are itching for more cases that they can build upon to create their own permission to ramp up to the point of having it be a felony to buy, sell, possess, and/or use anything they consider to involve HRT or other sex-rejecting procedures. Pretty easy to surveil and round up most of us if the automatic assumption is our use of HRT, obtained via prescription by a doctor and dispensed by a pharmacy.
Look at what they do to POC since forever. Get them in the system, and pile on charges that cannot be fought in a timely manner, causing loss of employment and housing. Give them felonies so that housing and employment becomes difficult to impossible, vanquishing upward mobility. Trap them on the outside in a cycle that gets them caught up on bullshit charges again, which puts them back on the inside. Lather, rinse, repeat. We have all shamefully allowed this to happen—myself included. It wasn’t until this administration, that put these incredible injustices right in front of my eyes where I cannot ignore them anymore.
I’ll admit too that I am afraid of being swept up and railroaded into a lengthy a prison sentence. My unapologetic political beliefs would give them all they need to throw their book at me. They’d get to point and say “See?! Left-wing radical! Antifa!”. I worry for my son, because I believe it is a dereliction of my duty as a parent to put myself in situations that could deprive him of me. And being separated from him would be the worst thing the state could do to me.
TL;DR: The detention centers are a’callin’. The inhumane conditions are the feature, and dehumanizing us gives them the power to send us there—while the exhausted liberals allow it to happen.
Fluke@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 5d
Don't forget, slave labour is constitutionally legal in the US as long as the slave is incarcerated in the prison system.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 6d
Those are a LOT of camps to be just for immigrants. Food for thought.