https://lgbtqia.space/@Elodie_lyra/116409432832047044
"The targeting of trans people - and specifically trans youth and trans women
in sports - is not a policy agenda. It is a strategic operation. Understanding
it as policy produces the wrong response. Understanding it as strategy produces
the right one.
Jason Stanley, in
How Fascism Works, identifies the targeting of vulnerable
minorities as a core mechanism of authoritarian consolidation. The function is
not primarily to harm the targeted group, though that harm is real and
intentional. The primary function is to test the solidarity of potential
opposition coalitions, to find and exploit the fracture lines, and to establish
a precedent: that some members of the coalition can be sacrificed when the
political cost of defending them is judged too high.
Every successful authoritarian project has done this. The question it is always
asking of the opposition is: is there anyone in your coalition you will abandon
to protect the rest? Because if the answer is yes, we know exactly how to
proceed. We find that person. We make defending them as costly as possible. And
we watch the rest of the coalition either hold together or fracture. If they
fracture, we learn where the next fracture line is, and we push there.
The targeting of trans people is not the end of this strategy. It is the test.
And what the test is measuring, in real time, is whether LGBTQ organizations,
progressive coalitions, and pro-democracy movements will sacrifice their most
vulnerable members when the pressure is sufficient."
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
