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Disturbing TikTok Reveals LGBTQ Nightmare - Rebel HQ (Original Post) ItsjustMe Jul 2022 OP
Arm yourselves now vercetti2021 Jul 2022 #1
It's sad that another human being can talk to another person in this country like that. Bluethroughu Jul 2022 #2
They don't see us as human. Similar conditioning was done in the 1930's... NullTuples Jul 2022 #4
They've never seen us as human IngridsLittleAngel Jul 2022 #8
Oh, they are just being hysterical. Behind the Aegis Jul 2022 #3
Recently, a named Twitter account publicly outed his young daughter NullTuples Jul 2022 #5
Ohhh. I know. We're hysterical. We're overreacting. IngridsLittleAngel Jul 2022 #7
This whole year has been a nightmare IngridsLittleAngel Jul 2022 #6
It's been bad since late 2016 & has just kept ramping up w/o a break NullTuples Jul 2022 #9
No question IngridsLittleAngel Jul 2022 #10

vercetti2021

(10,150 posts)
1. Arm yourselves now
Mon Jul 4, 2022, 04:41 PM
Jul 2022

Everyone knows I'm transgender here. This is what we are facing and this is exactly why we need to arm ourselves and train to use them. I did and I do not fucking regret it. I carry a .380 on my person whenever I'm out in public. Because yeah one day if this shit gets so much worse. They will fucking hunt us down and kill us. But I'm not gonna go out without a goddamn fight. Our community needs training and education on gun ownership. We need to not be statistics. Also love for the person to say shit like that to me. Let's see who shoots first and more efficiently asshole

 

IngridsLittleAngel

(1,962 posts)
8. They've never seen us as human
Tue Jul 5, 2022, 07:03 PM
Jul 2022

Now they have put the full weight of the machine behind convincing the masses we're not human.

Right out of the Nazi playbook, roughly 85 or so years ago. It sure worked well then... And now they're at it again.

Behind the Aegis

(53,833 posts)
3. Oh, they are just being hysterical.
Mon Jul 4, 2022, 04:49 PM
Jul 2022

Everyone knows the gay community is safe. I mean look at all the polls where people say they "support" us. Silly. They are just being "Debbie Downers".

A heaping dose of pissed-off gay

What was said in the video is true, what I wrote, sadly, is also true, and is coming from those who claim to be allies. We are 'splained to how we need to "calm down", and told "there are more important issues". Sadly, it will take SEVERAL Pulse massacres before some people realize the LGBT population is under a severe threat!

NullTuples

(6,017 posts)
5. Recently, a named Twitter account publicly outed his young daughter
Mon Jul 4, 2022, 06:13 PM
Jul 2022

He told a sweet story of himself accepting his young teen daughter coming out to him as gay. But worse, since his Twitter account is his actual name he outed his daughter.

A number of queer people tried to explain why this was a very dangerous thing for him to do, and why it was wrong, and why it was ultimately very self serving of him to do it. Why it was a private moment that was not his to share with the world. But especially that it potentially endangered her at this point in time.

The pile-on from straight people was quite amazing in its vigor and anger. They were outraged that one of their own could be accused of doing LGBTQ support wrong, especially after they'd all ooh'd an ahhh'd about what an amazing dad he was. The responses ranged from denial that he did anything wrong to open attacks on the LGBTQ people as being "jealous" that he was a dad and they "never could be" [sic].

 

IngridsLittleAngel

(1,962 posts)
7. Ohhh. I know. We're hysterical. We're overreacting.
Tue Jul 5, 2022, 07:02 PM
Jul 2022

We are angry, hurt, scared, overwhelmed, and feel dehumanized. We can't go 24 fucking hours without some reich-wing politician going after us. We can't go 24 fucking hours without extreme-right media demonizing us. We have to hear it from the so-called "freedom party." We have to hear it from the so-called "fair and balanced media." And as we've seen time and time again, that kind of hate goes from the mouths of "leaders" like DeSatan and "voices" like Fucker Carlson, straight into the ears of their followers, and then out of their mouths - or worse, inspires action from them.

We are under a very severe threat. Pride Month was filled with repeated threats and even a few attempts at attacks upon us. I am sadly convinced the only reason we didn't have another Pulse last month is blind luck. These people - the fascist politicians, the hate media, and the domestic terrorists - have erased all doubt they want blood. OUR blood.

No. We don't need to calm down. We need our allies to step up.

And any issue that threatens the safety and lives of innocent people IS an important issue. An entire community is under attack. What the hell is more important than behavior and conduct that threatens the life and liberty of an entire segment of the population?

Some people really need to fucking re-read "First they came for..."

 

IngridsLittleAngel

(1,962 posts)
6. This whole year has been a nightmare
Tue Jul 5, 2022, 06:55 PM
Jul 2022

The same alt-right/extreme-right hate machine that has in the past vilified Muslims (over 9/11), Latinos/Latinas (Drumpf's wall hate) and Asians (COVID) have now decided to redirect that hatred on LGBTQ's. Not that things were exactly rosy for us prior to 1/1/2022... But it's become incredibly vicious this year, with no end in sight. As we know, when bigots' pet politicians and pet "news" channels go on the attack like this, their brainwashed little robots listen. The result has been a year filled with open hostility, hatred, harassment and threats...

And the result is heartbreaking videos like this.

Yet another heartbreaking and infuriating example of how extreme-right bigotry and hatred has caused very real misery, pain, grief and fear in innocent people just trying to live their lives in peace and safety.

Another example that these Christofascist motherfuckers are no better than Nazis or monsters.

NullTuples

(6,017 posts)
9. It's been bad since late 2016 & has just kept ramping up w/o a break
Tue Jul 5, 2022, 09:08 PM
Jul 2022

And they're going to keep ramping up the rhetoric and conditioning until the November elections.

Then because it worked so good, they'll start building up for 2024.

 

IngridsLittleAngel

(1,962 posts)
10. No question
Wed Jul 6, 2022, 11:47 AM
Jul 2022

It's been bad since Drumpf "won" and hasn't relented at all. This calendar year, though? It seems like it's reached an outrageous level of hatred, and the majority of it has been aimed at LGBTQ's. Far less "build the wall" nonsense, far more "LGBTQ's are the ultimate enemy!" nonsense. And the worst part is I see it getting worse until the election, then getting worse after the election - no matter how it turns out.

It does feel an awful lot like the 1930's... And not in a good way.

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