jaselle

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[–] jaselle@lemmy.ca 1 points 22 hours ago

Well I do suspect that if they (the most ardent anti-trans activists) could find a way to entirely eradicate transgender people they would. Their rhetoric is constantly pushing the overton window to further extremes. At first it was "youth transition should require parental consent," now it's "HRT should be banned even for adults," "trans people should be legally considered their gender at birth," "trans people should not be allowed to travel internationally," "trans people should be considered mentally unstable," "agitating for trans rights should be considered terrorism," "it should be illegal to crossdress in public." I am having trouble imagining any kind of point they could agree is too extreme, but we'll see how it plays out.

[–] jaselle@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

True, though I think this squeaks through by the nature that a genocide doesn't actually need to completely eradicate a population. For instance, the holocaust did not eliminate all Jews. But they can prevent or disincentivize young people from transitioning; people experience magnitudes higher dsyphoria if they transition later in life, which leads to higher suicide rates. So in effect, this could kill many people.

Also, they can encourage people to remain closeted, making it dangerous or illegal to be openly or visibly transgender. This may not be a literal killing, but you could see it as akin to cultural genocide, which was recognized as a form of genocide since as long as the term "genocide" existed. (It does sound like it could be a neologism, but it's not.)

[–] jaselle@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

ah I didn't realize this. I stand corrected.

[–] jaselle@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is from the OneBC party, which only has 2 members, and nobody even voted for this party in the first place. These are formerly conservative MPs which were kicked out of their own party.

Now, the conservative party is pretty anti-transgender itself, but I would not really consider anything the OneBC party brings forward to be news-worthy unless it's picked up by at least one other party.

[–] jaselle@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago

It's essentially monotonic, so of course it's an all-time high.

[–] jaselle@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Do you know of any protests that I could join?

[–] jaselle@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

This is an anti-colonialist meme joking about people who are anti-immigration for other reasons

[–] jaselle@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago

Before endorsing something like this, maybe research about how statelessness is one of the things the UN is lauded for trying to end. It's like the peacetime equivalent of a war-crime. Stateless persons are absolutely not something we should try to make more of. It's a principle like self-determination that if someone is born and raised somewhere, they should never be forced to leave -- violating this is how you get an Israel/Palestine situation.

If you're very morally zealous, you are probably saying to this, "well fuck people who disagree -- they should just leave." Kinda naïve! If it were possible to arrange for that, a lot of conflicts in the world would never have started in the first place.

UN convention on stateless persons Statelessness (wikipedia)

[–] jaselle@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

generally anti-colonialists aren't against colonizing areas that are uninhabited by humans. You could probably make this kind of joke work if you were to identify a pre-existing indigenous civilization that existed on the land before the person pictured's society did, but you'd have to do actual research.

[–] jaselle@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago

the anchor can stay, the boat can leave.

[–] jaselle@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

I don't get it... why can't Canada just totally divest from Israel?

[–] jaselle@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

but the pandemic just ended. So wouldn't this imply that debt accumulation is slowing down?

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