• halyk.the.red@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    I don’t understand it, either. I’ve seen comics and comments about how not voting for a genocidal candidate might get trans people killed, while children are actively being blown apart and incinerated in hospital beds, currently, as we type.

    I don’t like that trans people have to live in fear. I would like them to be as comfortable in their communities as the whitest, straightest, most christian dude in Texas is in his community.

    Any argument for or against the current candidates that is laced with hyperbolic slippery slopes cannot overcome the actual murdering of an entire people that’s unfolding in front of us all.

    I cannot buy into any argument that plays on the lesser of two evils, as we would still have to choose an evil.

    Let’s be clear that this isn’t an easy world we live in, but I refuse to support a literal ethnic purge.

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      1 month ago

      …dude you’re writing off a genocide against me with “some of you may die, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make” shit

      You are actively advocating for people to be complicit in not preventing another genocide.

      • halyk.the.red@lemmy.ml
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        1 month ago

        Has it happened? Are trans actively being bombed in their hospital beds? Are they being piled in the streets and run over with bulldozers, dead and alive?

        To claim that trans are the victims of genocide is disingenuous and minimizes the experience of the people currently experiencing genocide.

        I am not discounting the potential threat against trans in america, but Palestinians are being shot, burned, and bombed right now. Entire families, gone.