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Kim PeralesMiller🚨urges red states to build their own versions of <a href="https://toad.social/tags/AlligatorAuschwitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AlligatorAuschwitz</a>. The BBB funds that. $3.5B: avail to “eligible states. FL AG Uthmeier is the sadist behind the <a href="https://toad.social/tags/detention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#detention</a> fac. Miller urged pols in GOP-run states to build their own state-run IMM det facilities. A migrant💔escapee might get devoured alive by an animal: <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dehumanization</a>. A st can use it to detain undoc <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Immigrants</a> under a fed prgm -🚨allows <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ICE</a> to auth loc LE to carry out IMM crackdowns. <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/197899/james-uthmeier-florida-alligator-alcatraz-maga-dark-future" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://newrepublic.com/article/197899/james-uthmeier-florida-alligator-alcatraz-maga-dark-future</a>

Gerd_Brodowski<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bih" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bih</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#israel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#palestine</a> : <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#genocide</a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#war</a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gaza</a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dehumanization</a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#video</a>„Dehumanising civilians made mass violence seem normal in Srebrenica and Gaza, says assistant professor Iva Vukusic.“<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/video/quotable/2025/7/11/deep-dehumanisation-of-civilians-similar-in-srebrenica-and-gaza" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.aljazeera.com/video/quotable/2025/7/11/deep-dehumanisation-of-civilians-similar-in-srebrenica-and-gaza</a>

NatDiscrimination, and all other forms of <a href="https://kind.social/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dehumanization</a>, make us experience and internalize <a href="https://kind.social/tags/shame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#shame</a> —painful, humiliating shame, which we try to hide and suppress so that we can experience <a href="https://kind.social/tags/belonging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#belonging</a>.And when we aren't capable of sitting with the massive discomfort of shame—turning a light on the parts of ourselves that evolved to be invisible—we cannot grow, apologize, take <a href="https://kind.social/tags/accountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#accountability</a>, or acknowledge how we contribute to <a href="https://kind.social/tags/systemicharm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#systemicharm</a>. 3/

Katy Elphinstone7 patterns of dominance.(A thread 🧵 )👑 1. Tolerance. Allowing small doses of difference (especially those that are of benefit to our own or our company/organization's agenda) – but never enough to cause change to the power relationship. Diversity, but not equity! 👇 <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Oppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Oppression</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/PowerDynamics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PowerDynamics</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Exploitation</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dehumanization</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Marginalized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Marginalized</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Equity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Equity</a>

BongolianThe Disappeared: Deported. Disappeared. Dehumanized.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TheContrarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheContrarian</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/disappeared" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disappeared</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#deportation</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dehumanization</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ICE</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-disappeared?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-disappeared?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> posted a photo of himself holding up a picture claiming to show <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/KilmarAbregoGarcia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KilmarAbregoGarcia</a>’s tattoos that prove he’s MS-13.The picture he’s holding has obviously been digitally altered to add the characters MS-13. The source of this BS is a neo-Nazi X user who claims the tattoos are code for “MS-13.”This is why you try people in court of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> & not on social media.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FactCheck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FactCheck</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TrumpLies</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/gaslighting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gaslighting</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#propaganda</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dehumanization</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#immigration</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HumanRights</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CivilRights</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DueProcess</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"In a stark recasting of Orwell’s original insight, in 2024 it was not Trump and his MAGA allies who cloaked their intentions in euphemism and ambiguity. Instead, it was mainstream media, pollsters, and political consultants who retreated into vagueness—minimizing or outright ignoring Trump's explicit threats in an effort to avoid accusations of bias, partisanship, or alarmism."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ICE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#immigrants</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cruelty</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nazis</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dehumanization</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lies</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#media</a> /6

William Lindsey :toad:"In the shadow of mid-20th-century atrocities, George Orwell warned us in his indispensable essay, 'Politics and the English Language,' that political speech often serves primarily to defend the indefensible through 'euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness.' Today, this warning rings truer than ever.~ Michael Podhorzer<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ICE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#immigrants</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cruelty</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nazis</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dehumanization</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lies</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#media</a> /5

William Lindsey :toad:"The reason I think we're at the numbers we're at is because this movement has been building a very long time. And one of the things that we need to do when we reclaim America and an America for everybody is to push these people back under the rock they came from. Because that's really where this kind of mentality should be in a healthy society. They'll always be there, but they shouldn't be running everything."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ICE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#immigrants</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cruelty</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nazis</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dehumanization</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#racism</a> /4

William Lindsey :toad:"There is the idea of othering and ... you can see the way the administration began these flights with individuals that they believed they had constructed this image of them as these terrible human beings. Again, although 90% of them do not have criminal records, but they could do it. They had brown skin."~ Heather Cox Richardson<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ICE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#immigrants</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cruelty</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nazis</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dehumanization</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lies</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#racism</a> /3<a href="https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-trumps-greed-grift-and-racism" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-trumps-greed-grift-and-racism</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"They’re painted not as people, but as animals. As monsters. As rapists. As the scourge of American society. The messaging isn’t accidental. It is the exact kind of dehumanization that makes cruelty palatable, even desirable. ...This is the playbook. This has always been the playbook. Turn the masses against the vulnerable. Make cruelty the point. Then repeat the lie until the truth chokes on its own breath."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ICE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#immigrants</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cruelty</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nazis</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dehumanization</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lies</a> /2

William Lindsey :toad:"Reminiscent of Hitler’s grotesque propaganda, where Jews were cast as vermin, stripped of their humanity so that no one would care when they were disappeared, the Trump apparatus is manufacturing the same cruelty, recast for modern America. The new 'vermin' are the immigrants. The undocumented. The vulnerable. The desperate."~ Michael Cohen<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ICE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#immigrants</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cruelty</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nazis</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dehumanization</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lies</a> /1<a href="https://www.meidasplus.com/p/when-silence-wins-everyone-else-loses" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.meidasplus.com/p/when-silence-wins-everyone-else-loses</a>

Kim PeralesThe 'banality of evil' described by political theorist Hannah Arendt is taking hold in the United States.🚨What she saw in Hitler’s Germany, we can see in Trump’s America.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nazis</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TrumpMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TrumpMusk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Deportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Deportations</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Coup</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dehumanization</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Immigrants</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Racism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPol</a><a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-10/hannah-arendt-germany-hitler" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-10/hannah-arendt-germany-hitler</a>

NonilexIt’s begun.The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialSecurity</a> Admin this week entered the names & SSNs of >6,000 mostly Latino immigrants into a database it uses to track <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dead</a> people, effectively <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/erasing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#erasing</a> their ability to receive <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#benefits</a> or <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/work" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#work</a> legally in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a>….  The move, requested by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DHS</a> Secy [& dog killer] <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/KristiNoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KristiNoem</a>, is aimed at putting pressure on the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/undocumented" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#undocumented</a> immigrants to leave the country.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#immigration</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dehumanization</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#labor</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/10/self-deportation-immigrants-social-security-dead/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/10/self-deportation-immigrants-social-security-dead/</a>

NonilexThe goal is to cut those people off from using crucial financial services like bank accounts & credit cards, along w/their access to government benefits.The effort hinges on a surprising new tactic: repurposing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialSecurity</a>’s “death master file,” which for years has been used to track dead people who should no longer receive benefits, to include the names of living people who the govt believes should be TREATED AS IF THEY ARE DEAD.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#immigration</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#labor</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dehumanization</a>

Ben Royce 🇺🇦"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ICE</a> director says <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/deportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#deportations</a> should be run like ‘<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Amazon</a> Prime for human beings’"Jesus fucking ChristThe <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sadism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sadism</a> has no bottom. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dehumanization</a> is the gleeful loudly announced goalAll of the bigots and morons out there will love it or not careNone of this is going to end well, there is some really scary shit coming<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/ice-todd-lyons-deporation-amazon" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/ice-todd-lyons-deporation-amazon</a>

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Gerd_Brodowski<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#israel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#palestine</a> : <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#war</a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gaza</a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#psychology</a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trauma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trauma</a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dehumanization</a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/interview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#interview</a>„The Israeli writer has published a new book reflecting on the power of fiction in a country at war with Hamas. In an interview with Le Monde, he bemoans the fact that Palestinians are no longer considered human beings, but 'faceless enemies.‘“<a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2025/03/25/dror-mishani-israeli-writer-the-trauma-of-october-7-has-turned-us-into-a-society-obsessed-with-revenge_6739511_23.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2025/03/25/dror-mishani-israeli-writer-the-trauma-of-october-7-has-turned-us-into-a-society-obsessed-with-revenge_6739511_23.html</a>

AnarchoNinaAnalyzesSo as I mentioned yesterday, I'd like to share this Majority Report interview with trans actress Laverne Cox about the fascist assault on trans rights, the dehumanization of trans people, and how what I've come to define as the anti-trans pogrom fits in to the larger capitalist, patriarchal, white supremacist, and ultimately fascist project. While Cox is a well informed, focused, and insightful guest that's worth listening to in any setting, as a trans woman one of the things I liked best about this interview is how the two cisgender hosts of the show allowed her to control the discussion and ultimately create a conversation that I think is equally valuable for trans people, other members of the LGBTQ community, and cis-het folks who want to serve as accomplices, not just allies, for a trans community in the fascist crosshairs as we speak. Cox and the hosts discuss the recent history of anti-trans legislation, the larger fascist quest to eras trans people in public life, and how dehumanizing language and anti-trans propaganda serve as a permission structure for both eliminating trans people's civil rights and further dehumanization. They also talk about the reality that this project to justify and create the anti-trans pogrom is a well-funded, highly coordinated endeavor with architects across the entire American right, as demonstrated by the fact that almost everything to demonize, oppress, and erase trans people that GOP fascists have accomplished since Trump took office, was laid out in advance in Project 2025. Cox even articulates what most trans people already know in their hearts but many cis liberals treating us like a political football don't seem to understand; that the path the fascists are adopting here may lead to the genocide of trans people. The group then shifts focus to talk about the relationship between the anti-trans pogrom, white supremacist patriarchal Christian Nationalism, and a larger fascist project that ultimately serves to enrich and empower predatory capital. Cox notes that what folks who aren't on the firing lines call a "culture war" is really about civil rights for those who are. The gang points out that policing of trans people in public life, is really just an extension of an ideology that views women as property, and that opens up a pathway to gendered power dynamics and enforced policies that harm *all* women, not just trans women. As both Cox and Vigland note, the fact that dehumanizing anti-trans propaganda ultimately serves as the thin end of the wedge for this larger fascist project and touches on other forms of targeted oppression towards non-white people, women, migrants, and young people, means that taking about the anti-trans pogrom is not a distraction, but rather a vital step towards defending us all from fascism. Finally Cox talks about the importance of folks who support trans people actually rehumanizing trans folks in the broader culture, why allowing the right to force the discussion into a lens of medicalization is an unworkable strategy, and why nobody who isn't trying to get trans people murdered should be "consorting with the likes of Charlie Kirk." In a moment that may come as a surprise to cis people, she points out that even conceding to the idea that trans identities, trans rights, or trans existence are topics to debate, is an unacceptable level of dehumanization and helps the fascist cause. As Cox poignantly notes, "there is no middle ground when someone wants you extinguished." The Majority Report: Humanizing Trans People with Laverne Cox.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auink7NlQr8" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auink7NlQr8</a><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/TransRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TransRights</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/AntiTransPogrom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AntiTransPogrom</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/AntiTransBills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AntiTransBills</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChristianNationalism</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Patriarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Patriarchy</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WhiteSupremacy</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dehumanization</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Genocide</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/AntiTransPropaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AntiTransPropaganda</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/MajorityReport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MajorityReport</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/LaverneCox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaverneCox</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CivilRights</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Project2025</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a>

janhoglund”…the point of the right wing’s dehumanization of political opponents is to dismiss the pain they are inflicting. If the majority of Americans are not really human, toying with their lives isn’t important—maybe it’s even LOL funny to pretend to take a chainsaw to the programs on which people depend.” —Heather Cox Richardson, March 9, 2025  <a href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-9-2025" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-9-2025</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#musk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dehumanization</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#usa</a>

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