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The Orange County Public Schools system in Florida has announced guidance banning trans students from bathrooms and the use of nicknames.

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The amount of abject cruelty that is being leveled at trans children in Florida is fucking horrifying. This is legally enforced humiliation and bullying. This alone would have been more than enough to drive me to suicide when I was a child myself. And they are absolutely aware that this will cause that. Ron plans to orchestrate a genocide in Florida. He's essentially forced every single person, company, doctor, politician, educator, teacher, any professional human being or group of human beings who values human life out of the state. When he's done all that will remain are the most openly violent fascists and all the people who are too impoverished to leave the state. Of which many such impoverished disenfranchised people are trans children. How such open fascist power has not been internationally condemned and how he himself has not faced expulsion from any political office and faced serious legal actions from the government of the United States is beyond me. I thought world War 2 and the rise of fascism in Europe was supposed to have taught us something. Evidently not.

[–] SocialMediaSettler 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fascism should've ended with WW2. The most violent ruthless war in human history. The death count alone is mind-blowing.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah but "COMMUNISM killed more people" so fascism is cool I guess.

[–] afraid_of_zombies 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could just not like dictatorships no matter what their official doctrine might be. It is allowed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Fascism exists outside dictatorships. Like in Florida, for example.

[–] afraid_of_zombies 8 points 1 year ago

I know I did the numbers once and if you just lined up the dead combatants from the USSR side head to toe it would cover a distance from NYC to LA multiple times.

Most depressing road trip ever.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

What's going on is the ramp up to genocide

[–] whofearsthenight 2 points 1 year ago

I thought world War 2 and the rise of fascism in Europe was supposed to have taught us something.

They don't gotta burn the books, they just remove 'em.

WWII might have been the end, but they've slowly been worsening education especially in places like Florida. I think at this point, capitalist social media is also a significant cause of the rise in fascism. When Zuck decides to platform holocaust deniers or twitter decides "free speech [for nazis]" it legitimizes it. It doesn't take much before this translates into real life. You surround yourself online in your little bubble with all of the other crazies (yay Facebook is bringing people together) long enough and it's nearly impossible not to translate that into the real world.

History is pretty fuckin' easy to repeat if you don't know the history.