In this episode of his "Thinking Out Loud" series, Double D discusses the recent wave of anti-LGBT policy sweeping the United States.
Opening up the video, Double D address recent policy and cultural attacks on LGBT people throughout the country. He highlights mass shootings, a coordinated policy campaign, as well as an increase in book banning and acts of intimidation. He also address the long history of connection between fascist movements and anti-LGBT rhetoric.
Jumping in, Double D reads excerpts from a "The Holocaust Memorial Museum" article, which details the German fascist campaign against LGBT people. He outlines what was known as the "German Criminal Code Paragraph S175" which was notorious as the legal justification for the persecution of LGBT people in Weimar Germany.
He notes that the fascists only slightly changed the original text of S175, and in conjunction with a wave of provincial and municipal policy, were able to broaden their scope of persecution and exclusion against LGBT people. He compares this history to the policy campaign that has been rolling across the United States. He points out that the changing or removal of a few words of legalese can spell disaster for marginalized people. He draws a parallel to the 13th Amendment and the abolition of slavery. He notes that the addendum, "except as punishment for a crime", laid the seed which maintained slavery through the guise of vagrancy laws and later mass incarceration.
Moving on, Double D examines the rhetorical relationship between fascists and anti-LGBT speech. He insists that fascists have consistently used anti-LGBT rhetoric to create "the other", in order to gain consent for their rise to power. He notes that this process occurs via a coalition of Christian theocratic organizations, right wing political movements, and out and out hate groups; which come together to stir up anti-LGBT hysteria and to bank roll the political machinations of fascists.
Double D insists that the neutered liberal class is also complicit in the rise of fascists. He points out that political deadlock, coupled with the purposeful failure of the liberal class to act on economic and social issues creates a fertile breeding ground for fascists. He notes that fascists are all too eager to weaponize identity rhetoric from the liberal class by tying loose lip service towards marginalized people into a vast web of conspiracies as well as a stoking of deep seeded prejudices.
Moving on, Double D examines the history of fascism and its connection to toxic masculinity. He quotes fascist leaders who said that LGBT people were a "threat of corruption" to the nation's young men. He ties this together with historically fascist movements towards "forced-birthing." He notes that all this language is clearly present today in the United States, its being spouted from every right wing personality and analyst in the country. He claims that such rhetoric is alive an well in the dialogue against abortion, in buzz-words like "pedophile and groomer", and in Christian cults like "Quiverfull", as well as in pseudo-scientific ideas like "The Great Replacement Theory." He also highlights the "alpha-sigma male dialogue", and internet personalities like Andrew Tate, who use fascist talking points to prey on alienated young men. He insists that all of these elements tie together into an increasingly fascist dialogue which has permanently changed political discourse in the country.
Next, Double D examines the policy campaign against LGBT people. He provides a map from the ACLU, which provides links to every single one of the hundreds of anti-LGBT policy being considered in the statehouses. He reads the text of several, highlighting a few that out right deny civil rights, civil liberties, and which deny healthcare, mental health services, or which provide a "freedom of religion" exemption to inclusion or anti-discrimination policies.
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In this episode of his "Thinking Out Loud" series, Double D discusses the recent wave of anti-LGBT policy sweeping the United States.
Opening up the video, Double D address recent policy and cultural attacks on LGBT people throughout the country. He highlights mass shootings, a coordinated policy campaign, as well as an increase in book banning and acts of intimidation. He also address the long history of connection between fascist movements and anti-LGBT rhetoric.
Jumping in, Double D reads excerpts from a "The Holocaust Memorial Museum" article, which details the German fascist campaign against LGBT people. He outlines what was known as the "German Criminal Code Paragraph S175" which was notorious as the legal justification for the persecution of LGBT people in Weimar Germany.
He notes that the fascists only slightly changed the original text of S175, and in conjunction with a wave of provincial and municipal policy, were able to broaden their scope of persecution and exclusion against LGBT people. He compares this history to the policy campaign that has been rolling across the United States. He points out that the changing or removal of a few words of legalese can spell disaster for marginalized people. He draws a parallel to the 13th Amendment and the abolition of slavery. He notes that the addendum, "except as punishment for a crime", laid the seed which maintained slavery through the guise of vagrancy laws and later mass incarceration.
Moving on, Double D examines the rhetorical relationship between fascists and anti-LGBT speech. He insists that fascists have consistently used anti-LGBT rhetoric to create "the other", in order to gain consent for their rise to power. He notes that this process occurs via a coalition of Christian theocratic organizations, right wing political movements, and out and out hate groups; which come together to stir up anti-LGBT hysteria and to bank roll the political machinations of fascists.
Double D insists that the neutered liberal class is also complicit in the rise of fascists. He points out that political deadlock, coupled with the purposeful failure of the liberal class to act on economic and social issues creates a fertile breeding ground for fascists. He notes that fascists are all too eager to weaponize identity rhetoric from the liberal class by tying loose lip service towards marginalized people into a vast web of conspiracies as well as a stoking of deep seeded prejudices.
Moving on, Double D examines the history of fascism and its connection to toxic masculinity. He quotes fascist leaders who said that LGBT people were a "threat of corruption" to the nation's young men. He ties this together with historically fascist movements towards "forced-birthing." He notes that all this language is clearly present today in the United States, its being spouted from every right wing personality and analyst in the country. He claims that such rhetoric is alive an well in the dialogue against abortion, in buzz-words like "pedophile and groomer", and in Christian cults like "Quiverfull", as well as in pseudo-scientific ideas like "The Great Replacement Theory." He also highlights the "alpha-sigma male dialogue", and internet personalities like Andrew Tate, who use fascist talking points to prey on alienated young men. He insists that all of these elements tie together into an increasingly fascist dialogue which has permanently changed political discourse in the country.
Next, Double D examines the policy campaign against LGBT people. He provides a map from the ACLU, which provides links to every single one of the hundreds of anti-LGBT policy being considered in the statehouses. He reads the text of several, highlighting a few that out right deny civil rights, civil liberties, and which deny healthcare, mental health services, or which provide a "freedom of religion" exemption to inclusion or anti-discrimination policies.
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