When is the general strike and protest?
The famous "First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out" quote leaves out the fact that before anyone, the Nazis came for trans people.
They came for the communists first. The fear of worker’s rights offered by communism is what caused the first fighting and gave Hitler power. Everything else followed. Hitler hunted down communists in ‘33. The prosecution of LGBTQ was a slower burn heading into the late 1930s.
However, I suggest we pay sharp attention to this:
This is exactly what republicans and trump are doing. Removing trans from passports, removing trans from military, etc.
Edit: before people downvote my position, they should read more about the lead up to the Reichstag Fire and the raid of the Institute. They are not singular markers in the course of history that define the beginning or end of anything. There were numerous battles with communist groups througout Germany in the 1920s and onward, from street fighting with Hitler’s proto-nazis to actions by the Weimar government. I don’t think anything I said is incorrect. Anti-communist action was part of Hitler’s rise and included the Reichstag Fire in Feb of ‘33, and the raid of the Institute was in May of ‘33. So even by that metric…they came for the communists first.
lone_fairie is correct.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_für_Sexualwissenschaft
And with all the same talking points too.
who accused the movements of "degeneracy", going against family values and promoting "un-German" ideas. A particular target of conservative ire were LGBT publications and magazines, which were grouped with pornographic magazines as "filth literature". Laws such as the 1926 Harmful Publications Act were pushed through by conservative movements to attempt to limit or regulate the contents of these publications.
Protect the youth from being "converted" by banning books. The conservative political strategy is literally fascism. Modern trans people in prison are being forcibly detransitioned by denying them medication exactly the same way they were in the 30s.
Do something the Jews had little opportunity to do, arm your self.
And practice. Safety and fighting under pressure takes practice.
There are so very few trans people, and so many more of us.
I can’t afford a gun, and if I could, it would not be something I could keep in my home.
Nah, if they come for you in the morning,
They are coming for me in the morning, I am just too stupid to get it.
Ignoring the obvious fact that trans people are like everyone else. Any law against any group will fuck with everyone else. They wanted to ban abortions and now in some states, docs are afraid of saving your life because they might be blamed for the death of the fetus. They didn't fuck with "women who love abortions" (as if that was real) they fucked with every pregnant woman's life and in proxy, their friends and family's life. If they target trans people, they are one poorly written law away to ruin your life and as they target trans people.... They clearly aren't particularly the kind of people who might would get it "right".
Trans rights are human rights.
It's as simple as this, whether you're talking about people with addiction, the homeless, LGBT, immigrants, union workers, the poor, native Americans and on and on:
What the government can do to them, it can do to you.
Where can I find these stickers?
you know what they say about the right to bear arms.
It's weird that you would need to legally codify the ownership of bear arms, but hey, not my problem.
I mean.
Probably not. I'm a straight white male.
I'm against bigotry because it is stupid, it holds everyone back, it's always based on nonsense, and frankly I really don't gibe a flying fuck one way or the other what someone else does if it doesn't directly effect me.
Not self interest. Self interest is how this fucking mess starts.
No, they'll come for you in the end. Just by being sympathetic to trans people makes you one of "them".
Sadly/fortunately(?) you are wrong.
Remember how they wanted to ban abortions, and now women who wanted the baby but have a medical emergency, might not get the medical care because doctors are afraid of accidentally "killing" the fetus.
What makes you think that they won't fuck up the laws against trans people.
(Of course, there are better arguments against transphobia but we are talking about selfish reasons)
You just said 1, 2 and 3 reasons why they would come after you
- Against the regime
- Does not accept the status quo
- Is not actively supporting the state
Don't worry bud, they'll find something to come after you in the end
The people in charge want to put trans people in camps
I feel like the communist party optics detracts from the messaging here. Basically nobody who is sympathetic towards socialist let alone ML anti-fascist groups needs to be convinced to not be okay with discrimination against trans people. We need a true populist call to the American public that any big government that comes after trans people will eventually come for them and that we need to fight together regardless of politico-ecenomic ideology, because human rights are being violated and concentration camps are right around the corner.
This instead works as a call to antifa supporters to reinforce the us vs them where the them includes everyone who is right of smashing capitalism. And not only do trans people include lots of people who are right of fully dismantling capitalism, but potential allies definitely do.
Communist party optics?
So this is the modern antifa flag used here, it is the red socialist flag overlayed by the black anarchist flag, it is directly based on and referencing this flag
Which was the flag of the militant wing of the German Communist party.I suppose you could say in the original post without the color it becomes more generalist in meaning but I suspect it was just for visual design and not to signal anything more anarchist and less socialist.
Regardless, trans rights should not be synonymous with antifa even if we are allies. The oligarchs are trying very hard to say that trans people are all "radical Marxists" let's not make it easy for them. We are people just like them, and it isn't Marxists vs capitalists, it is "we the people" vs "the ruling class of super rich" who want to control our lives and take our freedoms before giving up their domination and it always has been.
Tldr, that flag is antifas, antifa is much easier to villainize than "the trans population". Antifa is a political direct action group which I support and many do, but many don't, either because antifa has generally been anti-capitalist and some people really like capitalism (including many trans people) or simply because they just associate antifa with trashing downtowns and rioting and it's easy to be against those things. It's an easy target. Don't make trans people an easier target by lumping together trans rights and antifa as being just the same people.
