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Commentary
Tyrants control minds before they control bodies. It starts with book bans.
A German-Jewish poet once wrote, “Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.”
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News (USA)
A Democrat ally schooled a GOP leader on why transgender bans make no sense
Democratic state Rep. Peter Meredith schooled GOP leader Jonathan Patterson on how transphobic laws hurt intersex people and others.
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News (World)
First they came for the LGBTQ+ books: How the Nazis started burning books 90 years ago this month
LGBTQ Nation spoke with PEN America about the parallels between what happened then and what’s happening now.
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News (USA)
Neo-Nazis distribute anti-trans & antisemitic flyers across Atlanta
The flyers said Jews are behind “the rise in transgenderism” and included photos of trans leaders.
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Commentary
Republicans engage in Holocaust revisionism to justify their pro-gun platform
It’s a tactic they’ve used for decades.
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News (USA)
Activist protects speaker at Texas hearing delivering a powerful message about trans humanity
The bodyguard protected the trans speaker while chamber officials tried to disconnect their mic.
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News (USA)
Neo-Nazis descended on a drag queen story hour event shouting “Sieg heil”
Multiple white supremacist groups, including armed protesters, clashed with LGBTQ+ allies.
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Life
These three drag queens have been targeted by the far-right
We spoke with three artists swept up in this unprecedented wave of intimidation to see how they are in the aftermath.
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Bias Watch
Gay couple’s civil partnership ceremony themed around transphobia
“I promise to always speak the truth: that a man is an adult human male and a woman is an adult human female,” one of the men said in their vows.
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Life
Trans rights activist Imara Jones on the anti-trans hate machine the far right has assembled
Imara Jones is an award-winning journalist, thought leader, and content creator whose work focuses on trans people and the intersection of religious fundamentalism, the LGBTQ+ community, and civil rights. The sequel to her award-winning podcast The Anti-Trans Hate Machine drops in March. Jones shared some time on a chilly afternoon in Brooklyn to describe the […]
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Bias Watch
Rightwing journalist uses Nazi book-burning picture while calling LGBTQ books “filth”
The OAN reporter complained that the left wants to ban books while saying it’s the right’s “duty… to purge our schools of such filth.”
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Commentary
Vladimir Putin’s is dehumanizing Ukraine to Make Russia Great Again
The term “Ukraine” has become synonymous with “Nazism” in the minds of many Russian people.
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News (World)
Man accused of trying to “start a race war” comes out in attempt to prove he’s not a neo-Nazi
Andrew Dymock told investigators that he can’t be part of an anti-LGBTQ extremist group because he himself is “bisexual, but lean[s] towards being homosexual.”
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Commentary
A call to intervene against authoritarianism everywhere. Including in D.C.
Strong leaders whip up sentiments by employing dehumanizing stereotyping and scapegoating of entire groups, while other citizens or entire nations look on, often refusing to intervene.
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Facebook removed Pence & Trump’s ads that used a Nazi triangle to promote “organized hate”
Trump and Pence think the upside-down triangle is a symbol used by “radical left” ANTIFA protestors. It’s not.
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Commentary
The social construction of ‘race’: Placing Trump’s white nationalism in context
The concept of “race” began in the 15th century with European expansion, putting a whole new spin on Trump’s “send her back” style of racism.
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News (USA)
His classmates gave a Nazi salute, but this gay student didn’t go along. Now he’s speaking out.
The boys who were doing the “Sig Heil” salute and holding up “white power” signs bullied this kid for years.
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News (USA)
The parallels between Nazi Germany & the U.S. today
The Nazis’ campaign against women and LGBTQ people was about controlling the population.
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News (World)
Newly discovered pages to Anne Frank’s diary suggest her uncle was gay
Anne Frank wrote in these never-before-seen passages: “Uncle Walter is not normal.”
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News (USA)
German magazine publishes the most brutal anti-Trump cover yet
Trump has to be furious over this cover.