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    I keep telling people- the queer genocide that has already begun with Republican restrictions on trans rights and medical care is going to ramp way up and encompass queer people as a whole. Including my daughter.

    And yet I keep being told I’m excusing genocide by voting for Biden in order to stop Trump from killing her.

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      And yet I keep being told I’m excusing genocide by voting for Biden in order to stop Trump from killing her.

      Lucky. I’m being told that I’m endorsing it for the same reason.

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        The thing I love is that I ask them- name me a candidate that has a significant chance of beating Trump who isn’t Joe Biden.

        Obviously, they can’t. But they try very hard to avoid that.

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      Do you think this might be conflating internet-style “genocide” with the kind of genocide that involves gunning people down at an aid truck while they queue for food during a famine?

      Moot point as I really don’t think either party would be doing anything to stop the crisis. I do think we should be more careful with how we dilute language, though.

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        Not all genocides involve shooting people at an aid truck.

        Some US laws have been described, including by journalists Emily St. James and Katelyn Jones, as meeting criteria mentioned in the United Nations definition of genocide, including laws banning gender-affirming care (“causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part”), and those allowing child protective services to pursue child abuse claims against the parents of children receiving gender-affirming care and remove said children (“forcibly transferring children of the group to another group”).[26][27]

        Transgender healthcare bans in the US have been condemned by medical organizations. A report published by Yale School of Medicine in response to bans on gender-affirming care in Alabama and Texas argued that the bans were no more ethical than a prohibition on healthcare for any other life-threatening medical condition.[28] The president of World Professional Association of Transgender Health wrote an opinion article in the New York Times stating her view that these laws constituted an effort to “rid the world of transgender people.”[29] Similar sentiments were expressed in a WPATH public communique: “Anti-transgender health care legislation is not about protections for children but about eliminating transgender persons on a micro and macro scale.”[30]

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_genocide#United_States

        WASHINGTON — The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) — the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization — denounced the onslaught of transphobic statements threaded throughout the annual CPAC political gathering this past weekend. For several days extremist politicians and commentators peppered hateful statements toward trans people casually through remarks on unrelated topics. The wave of hatred culminated with a speech in which a Daily Wire commentator called for the “eradication” of transgender people.

        https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/human-rights-campaign-extremists-at-cpac-laid-bare-hatred-at-root-of-vile-legislation-targeting-trans-people

        The social conservative wish list calls for ending abortion, diversity and inclusion efforts, protections for LGBTQ people, and most importantly, banning any and all LGBTQ content. In fact, “The Mandate for Leadership” makes eradicating LGBTQ people from public life its top priority. Its No. 1 promise is to “restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children.” They are explicit in how they plan to do so, as you’ll see in the paragraph below. They plan to proceed by declaring any and all LGBTQ content to be pornographic in nature.

        “Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.”

        https://www.damemagazine.com/2023/08/14/the-gop-has-a-master-plan-to-criminalize-being-trans/

        And if you think Joe Biden is in favor of any of that, you’re insane.

        I am getting really fucking tired of people telling me I should sacrifice my daughter to this genocide because there’s another genocide somewhere else. Along with people like you denying it’s even happening so you can accuse people like me of supporting a different genocide.

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          Well, don’t get hysterical. I don’t want to kill your child, and I’m not accusing you of supporting… anything, really.

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            Denying that an ongoing genocide perpetuated by Republicans that my child will be caught up in if Trump gets elected isn’t even happening implies that, at the very least, you don’t give a shit if my child dies and that voting for Biden wouldn’t help anyway.

            Because it’s either that or you are totally ignorant of many years of Republican attitudes towards queer people in the U.S. and the many attempts to erase them from society which are only gaining steam.

            And I am giving you the benefit of the doubt that you don’t live under a rock.