Fascism Watch for 29 March 2023

[solarbird]

Missouri’s state Attorney General has set up a reporting page for “transgender center concerns” so you can report “a complaint or concern about gender transition intervention.” It would be a shame for it to get flooded with shit.

I hope you no longer need a reminder they will make ALL OF US illegal – again – if they can.

Tucker Carlson is out today proclaiming trans people to be the “mirror” and therefore “natural enemy” of Christianity. His viewers will know – as he does – that he’s saying trans people are literally evil (as Christiantiy is literally the definition of good), minions of Satan and the anti-Christ (the Satanic mirror of Jesus), and it’s all about making trans people targets. “Carlson has been a leading voice in a right-wing hate campaign against transgender people and drag queens in recent years” doesn’t begin to cover it.

I mean, just last week he demonstrated again how the second amendment implicitly only applies to cishet white men, using a segment to terrify his viewers with the spectre of armed trans people, saying queers are literally getting stealth military aircraft to use against Christians.

Not that he’s the only one. Assigned has a good rundown of this week’s onslaught, but in particular, here’s Republican Josh Hawley – who opposes the very idea of hate-crime when it comes to racially-motivated violence – demanding the Nashville shooting be investigated as a “hate crime” against Christians.

Remember: the “RAHOWA” civil war the KKK were always trying to start – and that neo-nazis and groups like the Boogaloo Boys still work to start – is a RAcial HOly WAr. The “Holy” part is important, and he’s working overtime to start it.

Between this and Musk’s full conversion of Twitter into an alt-right/fascist disinformation fountain and hate machine, you’ve got trans people living under constant threats and in fear, Georgia passing laws to ban trans health care if people have autism, Idaho passing new bathroom bans and allowing cisgendered students to sue for “emotional harm” if they see a trans child in a bathroom, changing room, or other school facility.

(Just a few random examples of the Twitter disinformation fountain and hate machine: a fake manifesto, police originally reported uncritically; the usual fash circle-jerk of source validity; Glenn Greenwald declaring being trans an “ideology” similar to white nationalism; anti-vaxxers swarming on grieving parents en masse. Today is a great day to leave Twitter forever. TechCrunch may think Twitter is dying, and I hope they’re right, but you can help make it happen.)

Idaho is also about to become the first state to officially ban travel from the state for purposes of obtaining an abortion. In case you thought their fascism was only along one axis. (GET IT? AXIS? HA!)

Florida’s anti-LGBT censorship regime is about to get a lot worse, with DeSantis and Republicans advancing a bill to ban any school book complained about by even one single parent. With the impending expansion of “Don’t Say Gay” throughout all grade levels of the Florida school system, bans like these will be omnipresent. There will also be comprehensive bans on discussion of civil rights history, of course. Maybe they’ll go so far as this school in Wisconsin, and ban songs that mention rainbows, because fags.

Republicans in the US House have passed what they call the “Parents Bill of Rights Act” which includes a lot of mandatory reporting of what’s in school libraries and in even more particular whether kids talk about gender. They want to take Florida and similar up to the national level, the bill being a blueprint for harassment of teachers, school staff, and school boards.

Watch out, though, UK readers – US fundamentalists workshopped all this over in the UK first (with lots, and I mean lots, of local help), but the evil flows both ways, and UK rightists are picking up American political habits now. Also, the Daily Mail is lying about the Washington Post’s article and data on trans people to argue against trans rights; here’s a breakdown of the bad-faith there.

Relatedly, the New York Times have now reprimanded pretty much everyone on staff critising their anti-trans-focused news coverage. Expect it to get worse. I recommend unsubscribing and telling them why. That includes Wordle.

Also relatedly, MSNBC have actually started to notice that American Christian Fash work overseas as well, and are directly involved in Uganda’s “death penalty for homosexuality” bill that’s set to become law.

That’s what they want here, too. They’ll make all of us illegal again if they can.

The “discomfort” of one (1) student over a discussion on civil rights caused Eastern Florida State College to cancel its class on the US government entirely, as per DeSantis’s “Stop WOKE Act.” The act isn’t even in effect yet, due to court challenges, but schools and colleges are self-censoring – one of the biggest mistakes you can make in response to fascists, and exactly what the ambiguity of the act is intended to cause.

Christian Nationalists are talking more about completely eliminating public libraries, replacing them with churches and church-run libraries funded by public money. They’ve talked about this on and off for a while; now that they fully own the Republican Party that they’re willing to float this shit at the national level.

Hoo boy, that’s a big spicy meatball of shit today, isn’t it?

Remember, though: none of this is new. Everything they’re saying now against trans people – EVERYTHING they’re saying now against trans people, every SINGLE word – is the same shit they launched against lesbians and gay men in the 80s and 90s… and we won. We beat ’em.

We did it before.

And we can do it again.

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Comments

Regarding Wordle

[kathmandu]

For a Wordle alternative, I recommend WordMaster at https://octokatherine.github.io/word-master/

It is basically a code fork of the brand-name Wordle, except

1) Free
2) No ads, no registration, no tracking, no nothing
3) All the games you want, as many times a day as you want.

Okay, it also doesn't have that 'screenshot your game and post it on social media' option, but I'm in it for the playing, not the bragging.

Also it works fine on a phone screen.

Re: Regarding Wordle

[solarbird]

I'll throw this in replies on Mastodon, it seems useful. Thanks!