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hax0ron3 9 days ago

I'm against extrajudicial deportations to El Salvador, but those people are not being deported for their political opinions.

As for trans/LGBTQ+ genocide, it does not exist in the West.

const_cast 9 days ago | parent | next [-]

Repeatedly denying GAC or banning PrEP as Republicans try to do every few months does indeed lead to death, yes.

Granted we're not under Reagan, but Republicans are practically praying for another AIDS crisis and doing everything in their power to make it happen.

Straight people largely don't know this because, well, it's not their problem.

bluefirebrand 9 days ago | parent [-]

Calling this genocide is ridiculous levels of hyperbole

This sort of nonsense is why many people do not take LGBT issues very seriously

If there was an LGBT genocide happening in America, there would not be open pride celebrations, come on

const_cast 9 days ago | parent | next [-]

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FirmwareBurner 9 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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ryandv 9 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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graemep 9 days ago | parent | next [-]

How is that genocide? No one is being killed, no culture is being erased, no community is being wiped out. People might be persuaded to change their viewpoints but they are not forced to or sent to re-education camps.

philipallstar 9 days ago | parent | prev [-]

This seems identical to saying that convincing someone with anorexia that they aren't overweight is "social death", and "social death" is (somehow) genocide.

I.e. it's nonsense.

bombcar 9 days ago | parent | next [-]

Using the same word “genocide” for what is happening in Gaza and what is happening in the US seems to make language pretty useless.

graemep 9 days ago | parent [-]

To say nothing of using the same word as what happened in the holocaust or to the Armenians or native Americans or Rwanda or is happening in Xinjiang....

ryandv 8 days ago | parent [-]

This is what I have been saying for years. The far-left progressives have literally raped language beyond all recognition.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Men are women.

watwut 9 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The obvious difference is that people with anorexia die and people who transition live happily.

boppo1 8 days ago | parent [-]

Uh, some do.

ethersteeds 9 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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Akronymus 9 days ago | parent | next [-]

dysphoria is certainly a mental illness, transitioning is merely one possible treatment for it (though, pushed as one of the first rather than as one of the last options, which I personally find concerning.)

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graemep 9 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Body dysphoria is a recognised mental illness.

account42 9 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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graemep 9 days ago | parent [-]

Being gay is not generally recognised as mental illness, although it has been in the past. Being trans is less well defined (historically even being gay was not well defined, or defined the same way).