Trump’s war on trans people has left Americans seeking asylum — from America
www.independent.co.uk
Four trans Americans claiming refuge abroad tell Io Dodds why they no longer feel safe in their home country, from fears of martial law to being arrested in changing rooms

So we’ve reached the minorities-flee-the-country stage.

That was fast. It’s getting Nazier by the minute in this motherfucker…

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
    301·
    2 days ago

    I sometimes wonder if this is the source of the phrase “slippery slope” as an idiom.

    Because once you start silencing public figures from having any ability to speak out against the administration, and you can viably see that there’s no real backlash against the responsible parties (usually the government) to doing so, then it’s easier to rally against nonconformists. Or doesn’t matter who isn’t conforming, just that they don’t.

    So anyone who is specifically a minority of the population, like the LGBTQIA+ community; there’s a lot of you, but there’s a fuckton more cis/straight people… You all are different and therefore being branded as enemies of the state. They’re just starting with trans people. Make no mistake that they’re going to come after the rest of the rainbow, if they’re left unchecked.

    This is the reason why the LGBTQIA+ community and it’s supporters exist, and everyone needs to realize that. When they come after one group, the rest of you aren’t far behind. So you all need to stand up and protest this shit, as much and as loudly as you can. I’m not excluded from this, despite being cis/straight. I am an ally of the community and I’ll fight shoulder to shoulder with all of you.

    They’ve silenced or cancelled dissenting speech already. Now they’re coming for the trans people. This needs to stop or America is just going to get more and more authoritarian over the next few years.

    I’m not American, but I welcome any of our American friends who are fleeing and looking for asylum. I live in Canada and I want you all to be safe and happy. Whether that’s fixing this shit in the USA, or vacating the states so it can become an inbred authoritarian hellscape. I promise that we have very similar amenities up here, without as many bigots. They still exist here, but not in the same qualities that are there.

    At the same time, if you want us to help you fix your own country, you need only tell us what we can do to help.

    I’m here for all of you. You’re all valuable humans deserving of respect, life, liberty, and the freedom to be who you are. Whatever needs to happen to achieve that, I’m happy to help in any way I can.

      • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        Originally, that’s probably how they started putting those words together in that order.

        I’m talking about the idiom of it being applied to anything that isn’t a literal slope that’s slippery. Like using it to describe that doing thing a will very easily create a situation where another thing is likely to happen.

        Eg: smoking weed is a slippery slope to using harder drugs.

        (It’s not, but I’m sure we’ve all heard some version of the above before.)

      • Randomgal@lemmy.ca
        51·
        1 day ago

        Also, pretty sure the US is in freefall slide into facism already. That slope passed two elections ago.