current transphobia, complaining about historical context, references anti-Blackness and anti-semitism
A minor ethnic gripe here is that everyone always pulls Holocaust comparisons
but that isn't accurate to literal centuries of Jewish experience. That's sort of like referencing the 1921 Tulsa Massacre without any other incidents of anti-Blackness before or since, and as though there are no African-Americans around.
And, along those lines, I actually feel that transphobia news has a *lot* more in common with Black experience - conservatives rolled back rights, including with loss of life, the "opposition party" didn't get in the way, and the result was the Great Migration - not in Europe, but right here.
re: current transphobia, complaining about historical context, references anti-Blackness and anti-semitism
I think one place I'm going with this is that any more tolerant state is facing a batch of new arrivals who will probably not have all that much money (very Great Migration) and even though a trans equivalent might not have the same generational poverty, wouldn't this be a great time to start making life easier for poor people in general? (Better transit, rent control, zoning mixed income areas, more benefits etc?)
