Remember, every kind of marginalization is socially constructed, too.
Vulnerability is not a natural artifact. Vulnerability comes from occupying a less-protected social status.
If you're safe today, you might not be tomorrow. If anyone is unsafe, no one is safe.
This is how the French Revolution worked. Once they unleashed the guillotine, it was used against everybody and anybody, including those who supported the revolution.
@_L1vY_ @JuliusGoat I have one small little note.
This. But capitalism.
Left unchecked in its purest neoliberal form, it is morally ethically and legally bound to destroy us all. Burn the planet and everyone up so as to bring returns to shareholders. It literally cannot exist without doing this.
Wild to think about. But important to say. Because we all have a choice. The first step on the road to recovery is admitting you have a problem.
@_L1vY_ @JuliusGoat Not only are they not going to stop with trans people, they aren't going to stop with America
@_L1vY_ @JuliusGoat Case in point, researchers in Australia being asked if they comply with Trumps 2 gender policy
@_L1vY_ @JuliusGoat
The idea of the shrinking circle is pretty useful to understanding fascism (and to a smaller extent its reformist counterpart conservatism). It gains power by creating a circle and saying "Everyone inside this circle is our people, everyone outside of it is the enemy". And that circle must be defined for it to work. But to keep working the circle must shrink. So it starts off with "Jews and Black people", then it gets smaller by pushing trade unionists and socialists outside the circle. Then the gay folk. Then the romani. Then the trans folk. And so on in a constant cycle of hunting or new minorities to push outside that magic circle off "Us". Eventually it must turn on itself, but before it gets to that part, it'll try and kill everyone else.
@_L1vY_ @JuliusGoat Or people crush the machine.