floofloof@lemmy.ca to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoThe GOP Doesn’t Want to Punish Trans People—It Wants to Eradicate Themnewrepublic.comexternal-linkmessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up1328arrow-down116cross-posted to: politics@beehaw.org
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minus-squaremaypull@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down2·8 months agothe poem starts “first they came for the communists”
minus-squarePasserby6497@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·8 months agoLGBT and communists were attacked at around the same time based on my knowledge of events, but is it really a surprise that the LGBT would be excluded from recognition based on the dominate cultures of the time?
minus-squaremaypull@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months ago is it really a surprise that the LGBT would be excluded from recognition based on the dominate cultures of the time? I don’t know what this is supposed to mean
minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·8 months agoThe poem in question was by Martin Niemöller, who was a Lutheran pastor. It’s not surprising that he’d write LGBTQ+ people out.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·8 months agoDo you think Pastor Neimoller would have a problem with them coming for the trans people?
minus-squaremaypull@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agohe didn’t have a problem with any of it.
minus-squaremaypull@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·8 months agosay what you want. your guessing game is boring.
minus-squaremaypull@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·8 months agoif you have something to say, say it. I don’t care for your interrogative style.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 months agoI honestly have no idea what you’re talking about.
the poem starts “first they came for the communists”
LGBT and communists were attacked at around the same time based on my knowledge of events, but is it really a surprise that the LGBT would be excluded from recognition based on the dominate cultures of the time?
I don’t know what this is supposed to mean
The poem in question was by Martin Niemöller, who was a Lutheran pastor. It’s not surprising that he’d write LGBTQ+ people out.
Do you think Pastor Neimoller would have a problem with them coming for the trans people?
he didn’t have a problem with any of it.
I mean when he wrote the poem.
say what you want. your guessing game is boring.
What?
if you have something to say, say it. I don’t care for your interrogative style.
I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about.