Except that Tromp is no longer dog whistling. He’s saying and promoting racist shit openly. It’s only muffled because corporate media keeps pretty much ignoring that fact, and normalizing fascism as it does so.
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That last one, notice what is missing. I’m getting very disturbed that Trump thinks about trans people more than the liberal cartoonists.
This is part of why I refuse to be called a liberal, it’s because I expect them to push trans people under a bus the second it is convenient for them to do so. A lot of them would prefer it if we weren’t here.
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Yeah, it’s very concerning. It’s not a marginal issue of a small group of folks, as anyone with a working understanding of how fascism should understand. It’s a major centerpiece of the whole project. Trans people represent something that bothers them very much, that there are other ways of being out of their control, that they can’t hammer the world into their preferred shape because people are who they are, and won’t conform to the narrow, bigoted world in their heads… We neglect the trans community at our peril.
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The cartoonist did include the LGBTQ+
flag, but I hear you.
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There is an expanded LGBQT+ flag that includes the trans flag, but that’s it. The attacks on trans people going on by Trump and the GOP are very specific, and should be called out specifically. There has not been the same direct targeting of other groups under the LGBQT+ community, and in fact some conservative gays and lesbians have joined in the dehumanization of trans people. We need to call out the specific attack, because of the position trans people have historically played in the fascist playbook since the nazis.
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With groups like LGB Alliance fucking things up, I would appreciate more explicit visibility.
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I cannot speak for USA but I’ve seen -with an increasing amount of concern- that now that LGB relations are more or less normalized in Spain a lot of them are assuming very conservative postures, some of them very transphobic and anti queer (as in: “we don’t need the gay pride parades anymore, we already won”).
So… yeah, I do understand the new flag is… well, newer than the old, but it would be great if cartoonists remember that there is a T in LGBTQ+…
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To expand, we have been on the frontline since 2016. We are exhausted. We predicted that Roe v. Wade would be the next to go, we were ignored both when we said it and when it became time to credit those who saw the threat. We feel betrayed, and this combination is dangerous when presidential elections come down to a few swing states. Tiredness, betrayal and a feeling that we don’t matter add up to staying at home on election day. Shouting abuse at us won’t help, it just makes the feelings more entrenched.
Harris and Walz understand this, I just wish that the media and other liberals did.
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I usually quite like abstract art.
I don’t know why I hate this, but I do.
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As HCR explained in last night’s Letters from an American,
The Washington Post, too, has seen about 2,000 subscribers bow out, and fourteen of the newspaper’s columnists called the decision not to condemn Trump’s threats to the “freedom of the press and the values of the Constitution” “a terrible mistake.” Cartoonist Ann Telnaes published a blacked-out square, playing on the Post’s motto that democracy dies in darkness.
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Thank you. Much clearer now, oddly.
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Think of ‘whitewash’ and turn it into darkness.
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