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'Kids Online Safety Act' will deliberately target trans content, senator admits.::undefined

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[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 173 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Of course it will. Then once they have all the trans people rounded up they’ll target the gays, then the blacks, the mexicans, and so on and so forth until everyone’s in camps that isn’t white.

Republican supporters won’t wake up to this until they start coming after the stupid and obese.

[–] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 66 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

You're not safe even if you're white. If nothing else they'll target people who like the color blue just to keep some "enemy" in their sights.

White people are just further down the list of easy targets. At that point they'll start by hair color and nitpick their way down from there.

Fascism requires an "other" to function. Once one "other" is a destroyed there will always be another one to take it's place.

[–] arefx@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Blonde and blue eyes only?

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

As long as they don't have any lefty thoughts. Don't forget that the Nazis also put unionists, socialists and communists in camps.

[–] sock@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

huge props to people that didnt blow their brains out at first opportunity going into camps

idk how i would really react but death sounds a lot nicer than concentration camps

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[–] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Interesting how that never gets talked about...

[–] Rilichu@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You mean the fact that the biggest initial source of support the Nazis got was from the emerging business class who were scared of the rising influence of labor unions? Can't imagine why that gets pushed under the bed.

Not like we had that nearly happen here in the US or anything though. Just don't look into the Business Plot or that many of the Jan 6thers turned out to be small business tyrants...

Just remember that the most dangerous Nazis aren't the skinheads on the corner but the ones on Wall Street.

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[–] weew@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

they'll never target the stupid, those are the people who will support them no matter what. They're already trying to demonize intelligence and education.

the bar for what counts as stupid enough will continue to lower, though.

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[–] VampyreOfNazareth@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

It’s not about colour anymore, it’s the return of classism.

[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 89 points 2 years ago (9 children)

"The bill – endorsed by president Joe Biden..."

Why in the world would Biden support this Heritage foundation garbage?

[–] Arsenal4ever@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

'Kids Online Safety Act' will deliberately target trans content, senator admits

He's a granddad. We shouldn't have granddads who can't work a remote be president. I assume he can't work a remote.

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[–] asteroidnova@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 years ago

This IS Biden. He's always been a pretty bad human person. The only silver lining is that he's been better than most recently. He's a center-right politician just like most Democrats.

[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 15 points 2 years ago (14 children)

Are you starting to see the cracks in the foundation? Are you starting to see how the game is played?

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 59 points 2 years ago (5 children)

This is actually a fantastic example of typical politics, but not in the way you're imagining. It's a classic poison pill. Write a bill with something good (protecting children's privacy online, which I think we'd all agree is good) and then put something unpalatable into it (transphobia and homophobia).

Someone votes for it, "Why do you hate LGBT people?" Someone votes against it, "Why don't you want children to have stronger privacy laws on the Internet?"

It's exhausting and a lose-lose. That said, I prefer if they don't vote for it and take heat for "being anti privacy". You don't negotiate with people's rights.

[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Is it protecting children? Claims need evidence and rules need tests. Until we do that its fear-based, exploitable control for the sake of control.

[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 23 points 2 years ago

Government doesn't run on the scientific method, sadly.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Yeah that's the problem with legislation like this. You'll have proponents claim it protects children without actually explaining how.

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[–] Arsenal4ever@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The only cracks here is that the senate are all a bunch of olds who don't understand the internet.

[–] asunaspersonalasst@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

This tbh...

They fear what thy don't understand...

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[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago
[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

He's desperate to look bipartisan

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[–] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 71 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Trans porn must be curropting children because it's all I watch now and my mind is way stronger than a child's." -Marsha Blackburn

[–] buddhabound@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

...and my mind is stronger than a child's...

It's not though. It really, really isn't.

[–] Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world 61 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean, at this stage you can tell that by the name.

These deplorables love children so much that they don’t even bat an eye at using child sexual abuse as a political tool while simultaneously turning a blind eye to 300,000 children raped by clergy.

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

We should protect the children, lets start with the Catholic Church.

[–] BeefDaddySupreme@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To protect kids from gay priests who are molesting them?

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Heavens, no. To find a way to extract some monetary value out of that.

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[–] the_crab_man@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago (10 children)

It should be the parents' job to regulate what kind of content their children consume on the internet, not the government's.

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 35 points 2 years ago

This isn't about protecting kids it's about banning LGBT persons from the internet.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yep exactly as we all knew.

She wants to confine children like I was to the years of confusion and alienation I had to go through. That’s cruel. I should not have had to feel so alone and nobody else should either.

[–] glacier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It is more than just cruel. It is abusive and genocidal. LGBT youth will die because of this law and the countless others being passed in certain states.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Oh absolutely and they’ll likely try to punish those who try to save them

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago

Not a surprise. That is the intention.

[–] mimichuu_@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why is it always the Save The Children Act and not the Erradicate Trans People Act?

[–] SirStumps@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Kind of like Citizens United, has a better ring than "Politician pay offs".

[–] BarterClub@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 years ago

Send your message to Congress. Here is a simple way to do so. https://resist.bot/petitions/PCCXRJ

[–] InternetUser2012@midwest.social 17 points 2 years ago

How about we go after the real threat, churches.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We need to harm the children to help the children don't you understand?!!?!?!

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[–] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago

Its not a bug, its a feature.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

This woman is the literal devil...

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