Thread by @LeiracalMuse

Specifically because so many people hold this perspective, fascists have learned that they can cause harm, abuse, and death to millions of trans people, so long as they don't literally have a clearly labeled "TRANS GENOCIDE CAMP" and aren't filmed with chained people in stripes.

https://twitter.com/cashleeb/status/1621723118988296192

A reminder that even the Nazis knew that the average citizen might have a problem with human beings being mass funneled into an incinerator.

So they didn't tell them.

The camps were a secret most citizens, and even the Allies, didn't know about, or couldn't begin to comprehend.

Would you know a genocide if you saw it? If you had to live through the moment instead of smugly holding the post-facto knowledge of history?

There's every reason to think you've lived through one in the last decade.

The evidence that something was hidden was public for months.

There was *never* a satisfactory answer to #WhereAreTheGirls.

One group, maybe half a dozen, were found to have been placed in an evangelical adoption system, their rights signed away by parents who didn't know what they were signing, and they promptly vanished with no trail.

Modern-day fascists have mastered the art of utilizing the current overflow of information and worries the average person receives, to leverage the single greatest power the disaffected person offered them:

You are seeking a reason not to care.

Often, most any reason will do.

The people who have built a cult behind the most significant manipulator of perception, a man capable of leading "patriots" in a charged attack against the very heart of the democracy they claim to love more than anyone else, enabled a cause by finding weak excuses to justify it.

Disaffected moderates like to believe they are "above it all,” that they're not manipulated so easily as people chugging horse medicine, shooting themselves during their own armed protest, or marching for things that will never affect them.

But they grant more power than anyone.

All it takes to enable thousands of children to be ripped from their parents, who have fled violence your own nation initiated, who came on the promise of a peaceful life, is to decide that their removal from their people and indoctrination into supremacy isn't "actual genocide."

All it takes to enable racism for generations to come, is to nod and say "yeah, he looked like a hooligan," or "if you comply you'll be safe," or "I don't care what they do, if you don't completely design and explain an alternative I won't acknowledge it's an untenable problem!!"

"I have 'reasonable concerns' I could solve with a Google search" becomes "just segregate into your own spaces" becomes "there's still some states you can flee to if you can afford it" becomes "you can still get it out of pocket" becomes "the law wasn't written to arrest YOU..."

That's not theoretical. The last one is an active bill in many states, including my own. In Florida, they're already filing felony charges. In Texas, they're already sending CPS on trans parents and discussing how to do "border checks" to arrest fleeing trans people.

It's here.

The single most highly effective thing you can do to practically GUARANTEE the ongoing, documented, called-out rise of fascism in the West, is to continue to find reasons why it's not a problem and you don't have to worry about it.

Including chiding a marginalized group on tone.

OP was already informed to educate themselves.

I felt it important to explain why.

What will make this a fascist nation, like each one before, is not the efforts of fascists.

It will be the ongoing, active efforts by "ordinary people" to accommodate them.

To not be bothered.

That accommodation is supremacy.

It is what will cause supremacy to win, more than any effort actual fascists make.

A.R.Moxon explained this better than I can, and provides a clear visible example within living history.

How we embrace by not rejecting.

https://twitter.com/JuliusGoat/status/1467826241021566977?t=bCLgaRLayXFg_cO0wMPTxw&s=19