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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd say cheering when someone suggests eradicating a vulnerable minority is nazi shit. I'd say marching with nazis is nazi shit. I'd say carrying a nazi flag is nazi shit.

Welcoming nazis into your party? That's nazi shit.

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’d say cheering when someone suggests eradicating a vulnerable minority is nazi shit.

Where is this happening? Firstly who is suggesting it, and secondly who is cheering it?

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Michael Knowles advanced “eradicating” trans people at CPAC. And the people there cheered.

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That’s taken completely out of context and you know it.

It’s not calling for trans people to be eradicated, it’s calling for the current trans ideologies, where if you’re a girl who likes trucks you must be trans and therefore must be rushed on to puberty blockers and get your breast removed, to be eradicated.

No one is calling for trans people to be eradicated as in “killed”. That’s what Nazis did - they literally killed people by the millions.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”. If we wait for them to explicitly express trans-genocide, it will be too late.

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

No one is suggesting or calling for a genocide. It’s not happening. It’s not going to happen. You’re just fear mongering to try and paint people you don’t like as Nazis.

I swear some of you want an actual genocide so you can go “see I told you!!!”

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I call a spade a spade ♠️. Ask a trans person what they think Knowles meant. You won’t. Because you know what they’d say. And you don’t care , because you assert your ignorance as truth.

[–] NotOverSeether@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ask a crazy person what something normal means and you get a crazy response

Yes, that's true.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

If you're splitting hairs about what "eradicate" means, it says a lot about what you're happy to defend.

And why.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It’s not calling for trans people to be eradicated, it’s calling for the current trans ideologies

I'd say this is a distinction without a difference, since both involve eradication of trans people from public life, but the latter involves eradication of the very idea that trans people exist. That's worse.

You're being disingenuous. Then you move straight into the standard conservative bigoted lies which I'll not quote.

No one is calling for trans people to be eradicated as in “killed”.

They absolutely are. Don't insult people by expecting them to buy such hogwash.