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Runningdawg

(4,516 posts)
3. I have heard more LGBTQ slurs hurled in public in the last few years than I have
Fri Apr 8, 2022, 05:58 PM
Apr 2022

since the early days of the HIV crisis. BIG difference, now they do it to children.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
4. Fascists need enemies. Remember the groups that Germany's Nazis/Fascists
Fri Apr 8, 2022, 06:19 PM
Apr 2022

targeted during WW2?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_victims

[The vast majority of the Nazi regime's victims were Jews, Sinti-Roma peoples, and Slavs but victims also encompassed people identified as social outsiders in the Nazi worldview, such as homosexuals, and political enemies.]

Today's Fascist behavior is more of the same. Fascists aren't concerned with any Human Rights except their own and their 'privilege' to destroy the rest of us. If LGBTQ groups,
POC, Democrats and anybody who is anti-fa band together we can take the Fascists
down. United we stand and divided we fall.

sop

(10,177 posts)
5. ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) is actively working with ADF (Alliance Defending
Fri Apr 8, 2022, 06:24 PM
Apr 2022

Freedom), a Christian Right litigation nonprofit that pursues an anti-LGBT agenda.

https://www.prwatch.org/news/2019/05/13470/alec-teams-anti-lgbt-alliance-defending-freedom-promote-so-called-campus-free

"ADF, designated as an anti-LGBT hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), is also an 'ALEC Private Sector Member'...The Human Rights Council calls ADF an 'enthusiastic leader in defending the unconscionable right to discriminate against LGBT people' and 'a world-wide exporter of their own brand of hate'...With a budget of over $50 million, ADF is the largest legal advocacy group in the U.S. fighting to protect the right to discriminate against LGBT people. ADF has argued many cases in front of the Supreme Court seeking to legalize discrimination..."

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