The genocide of US LGBT+ folks is in progress

Conservatives know that the political climate is not right just yet to start mass arresting or massacring LGBT folks (stages 8 and 9 of genocide). But by passing laws to strip away their rights and to literally silence their voices and act like they don't merit being treated like human beings, pretty much every Republican-dominated state is at least at stage 6.

For years, many decent people have pooh-poohed warnings that the country was going in this direction. "Overreaction," "Exaggeration," "Don't be hysterical"...

The problem is that decent people tend to lack the imagination of sociopaths. They assume that almost everyone is as decent as them and that the aberrents are too few and disparate to engage in anything worse than the odd individual act of depravity.

When sociopathy is normalized and they become numerous enough to seize power structures, a nightmare is what follows. And we are headed in that direction, mark my words.

(Pseudo-)Christian theocrats, funded by US extremists, are already doing a test run in Africa.

Republicans want to eradicate LGBT people and they're not hiding it

Many Americans who should have known better were slow to pick up on the warning signs of fascism, which have been obvious for years.

Whenever signs of rising fascism were signaled, centrists, who controlled with an iron grip both the Democratic Party until recently and the punditocracy, would often dismiss such concerns with Godwin's Law, issue warnings about "unhelpful exaggeration", mouth pieties about "civility" and, most pernicious of all, engage in morally repugnant both sides-ism.

Now, it is crystal clear that much of the right wants nothing less than the eradication of LGBT people. The "mainstream" (whatever that means these days) of the right will deny say, couching their bigotry and oppression under the vile deceit of protecting children. But some of their ilk - here's an example - drops the pretense and utters right-wing's vicious intentions out loud.

It's long past time we believe them.

People's fundamental humanity is well beyond the privilege of "agree to disagree."