Hey, I lived there! We were lucky enough to stumble upon the last drag show. It was really powerful, I’m glad to hear the shows can go on!
As a non US person, it’s baffling to me that there’s this whole background of being “the land of the free”, but half the country would want to turn it into Saudi Arabia 2.0, Christian Boogaloo.
That said, anyone of you over there who are opposing these changes, keep up the fight. When one country gets more conservative others will follow. There’s no country in earth immune to this.
@Wander Let’s not forget the US also has way more influence than any other country. What I’ve seen so far in my life is that what happens in the US happens a few years later here.
It used to be a 10 year delay, and it was mostly for positive things, like innovations. Now it’s more like 2-4 years, and for bad things. The first turning point for the bad, IMHO, was the iraq war and the death of UN Sérgio Vieira de Mello. It was mostly silent but it really changed international cooperation for the worst.
The second big turning point was Trump. It basically told every bigot, racist, ignorant person around the whole world “Now it’s your chance”. It validated so much of the bad stuff it would soon be felt everywhere.
Conservatives here have a different definition of “freedom”. They want to be free from being bound by the laws yet still be protected by them, whereas minorities should be bound by the laws, but not protected by them. This is how conservatives in this country are both the party of “law and order” and the party of “personal freedom”.
The best part about this is that the people wanting to turn the country into Saudi Arabia 2.0 have a tendancy to spread conspiracy theories about the other side imposing sharia law…
It’s projection. Every single thing they accuse “the woke left” of doing is something they are already doing.
It’s terrifying to witness active dehumanization in a nation that supposedly wants you to live your best life. They’ll try to convince the whole nation that trans folk aren’t people, aren’t human, we can’t let them. Once they’re not human, they can get away with anything they do to them. If you see these efforts to dehumanize any group, no matter where you are, try to be brave because you never know when you’re next.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.I’ll never forget this poem, it really shaped my perspective on speaking up sooner rather than later. There was another poem that echoed similar sentiments, but I can only remember the line “I will not be an agent of death.”
As a trans woman it’s really fun getting to be the minority that it’s totally okay to just openly hate and dehumanize, the right’s newest whipping girl ;-;
Party of individual rights my fucking ass.
Republicans need to figure out who they are instead of “not democrats”
Nazis. They are Nazis.
Very true, the fascist playbook they ARE using is pretty simple. Find a marginalized community, vilify and lie about them, and push them out of public life. The more marginalized they make said community, the easier it is for them to justify more Draconian ways they can treat them.
I live in a very rural part of a southern state and the majority of people around me are pro Trump christian conservatives. They went from decrying ‘1st amendment violations’ on old Twitter (even though it’s a corporation) to celebrating the recent wave of anti-lbgtq+ legislation sweeping across red states, though it actually does violate the 1st amendment, because ‘someone’s got to do something about the cultural rot.’
I am very relieved to see the courts not buying it and hope this trend continues.
Well, yeah–the Tr*mpies are professional hypocrites. The cognitive dissonance never ceases to amaze me
