these 10 steps were defined in 1996 and there is zero doubt that the people defining them intended literal ethnic genotype rather than fuzzy self-association like claiming there's a genocide against moustache-havers due to a razor ad campaign telling men to shave it off
era post:
Stage 1 - Classification. We're long past this.
the summary of a summary which they link:
Classification – The differences between people are not respected. There’s a division of ‘us’ and ‘them’ which can be carried out using stereotypes, or excluding people who are perceived to be different.
actual text (still an exerpt):
All cultures have categories to distinguish people into “us and them” by ethnicity, race, religion, or nationality: German and Jew, Hutu and Tutsi. Bipolar societies that lack mixed categories, such as Rwanda and Burundi, are the most likely to have genocide. One of most important classifications in the current nation-state system is citizenship in a nationality. Removal or denial of a group's citizenship is a legal way to deny the group's civil and human rights. The first step toward the genocide of Jews and Roma in Nazi Germany were the laws to strip them of their German citizenship. Burma's 1982 citizenship law classified Rohingyas out of national citizenship. In India, the Citizenship Act denies a route to citizenship for Muslim refugees. Native Americans were not granted citizenship in the USA until 1924, after centuries of genocide that decimated their populations.
this is the first step, classification. revoking your fucking citizenship. we're long past this??era post:
Stage 2 - Symbolization. Not allowing trans people to change their gender markers or names effectively works as this step.
Symbolisation – This is a visual manifestation of hatred. Jews in Nazi Europe were forced to wear yellow stars to show that they were ‘different’.
actual text:
We give names or other symbols to the classifications. We name people “Jews” or “Gypsies”, or distinguish them by colors or dress; and apply the symbols to members of groups. Classification and symbolization are universally human and do not necessarily result in genocide unless they lead to dehumanization. When combined with hatred, symbols may be forced upon unwilling members of pariah groups: the yellow star for Jews under Nazi rule, the blue scarf for people from the Eastern Zone in Khmer Rouge Cambodia.
trans people are proudly applying symbols to themselves, they're not being forced by the government
android sophia says NOT allowing trans people to brand themselves with the symbols that highlight their otherness counts...??
Stage 3 - Discrimination. Again, we're long past this step. Transgender folks have been fighting for their rights for years. Until recently, we had to go through grueling processes to get gender affirming health care and also denied basic rights like our name changes. I've been a personal victim of this multiple times, and I know many others who are.
Discrimination – The dominant group denies civil rights or even citizenship to identified groups. The 1935 Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of their German citizenship, made it illegal for them to do many jobs or to marry German non-Jews.
A dominant group uses law, custom, and political power to deny the rights of other groups. The powerless group may not be accorded full civil rights, voting rights, or even citizenship. The dominant group is driven by an exclusionary ideology that would deprive less powerful groups of their rights. The ideology advocates monopolization or expansion of power by the dominant group. It legitimizes the victimization of weaker groups. Advocates of exclusionary ideologies are often charismatic, expressing the resentments of their followers. Examples include the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 in Nazi Germany, which stripped Jews of their German citizenship, and prohibited their employment by the government and by universities. Discrimination against native Americans and African-Americans was enshrined in the US Constitution until the post Civil War Amendments and mid-20th century laws to enforce them. Denial of citizenship to the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar led to genocide in 2017 and the displacement of over a million refugees.
give this one a maybe, but it applies to literally everything
there's a genocide against smokers because dominant groups of non-smokers keep screeching about how it affects their health, and they keep removing rights of people to smoke indoors or place age restrictions on it to oppress the smoking minority
Stage 4 - Dehumanization. The Republican party does this on the regular. The media engages in this. They use terms like "gender critical" and "transgenderism", referring to us as a plague or a trend. There's also the completely made up "rapid-onset gender dysphoria" term.
Dehumanisation – Those perceived as ‘different’ are treated with no form of human rights or personal dignity. During the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, Tutsis were referred to as ‘cockroaches’; the Nazis referred to Jews as ‘vermin’.
One group denies the humanity of the other group. Members of it are equated with animals, vermin, insects or diseases. Dehumanization overcomes the normal human revulsion against murder. At this stage, hate propaganda in print, on hate radios, and in social media is used to vilify the victim group. It may even be incorporated into school textbooks. Indoctrination prepares the way for incitement. The majority group is taught to regard the other group as less than human, and even alien to their society. They are indoctrinated to believe that “ We are better off without them.” The powerless group can become so depersonalized that they are actually given numbers rather than names, as Jews were in the death camps. They are equated with filth, impurity, and immorality. Hate speech fills the propaganda of official radio, newspapers, and speeches.
literally the opposite is happening, trans acceptance has been incorporated into school textbooks, which...if this is the truth being taught, implies that people who believe the opposite are at minimum deniers of science and should probably be vilified
which group is powerless? which group is having their viewpoint written out of textbooks?
Stage 5 - Organization. 2600 Pages of Hate - A collection of leaked emails from anti-trans expert witnesses, right wing lawmakers, and conservative legal groups. We actually had a thread here on Era about this one.
Organisation – Genocides are always planned. Regimes of hatred often train those who go on to carry out the destruction of a people.
Genocide is always organized, usually by the state, often using militias to provide deniability of state responsibility (the Janjaweed in Darfur.) Sometimes organization is informal (Hindu mobs led by local RSS militants) or decentralized (terrorist groups.) Special army units or militias are often trained and armed. Plans are made for genocidal killings. Genocide often occurs during civil or international wars. Arms flows to states and militias (even in violation of UN Arms Embargoes) facilitate acts of genocide. States organize secret police to spy on, arrest, torture, and murder people suspected of opposition to political leaders. Motivations for targeting a group are indoctrinated through mass media and special training for murderous militias, death squads, and special army killing units like the Nazi Einsaztgruppen, which murdered 1.5 million Jews in Eastern Europe.
so...the "2600 pages of hate" does not actually constitute any of the above in the least
Stage 6 - Polarisation. The UK media is full of this, especially the BBC. In the US, Fox News regularly spreads propaganda to spread and incite messages of hatred about Transgender people. The rest of the US media doesn't exactly try to fight back against this, for the most part.
Polarisation – Propaganda begins to be spread by hate groups. The Nazis used the newspaper Der Stürmer to spread and incite messages of hate about Jewish people.
Extremists drive the groups apart. Hate groups broadcast polarizing propaganda. Laws may forbid intermarriage or social interaction. Extremist terrorism targets moderates, intimidating and silencing the center. Moderates from the perpetrators’ own group are most able to stop genocide, so are the first to be arrested and killed. Leaders in targeted groups are the next to be arrested and murdered. The dominant group passes emergency laws or decrees that grants them total power over the targeted group. The laws erode fundamental civil rights and liberties. Targeted groups are disarmed to make them incapable of self-defense, and to ensure that the dominant group has total control.
"laws may forbid intermarriage" gets to the heart of it: we're talking about non-jews being forbidden from marrying jews, it is explicitly an ethnicity/race thing
the republicanest republican right now wouldn't try to prevent all trans people from marrying any cis people, because self-ID makes the idea nonsense. if there's a trans romeo and cis juliet on opposite sides of this marriage wall, then
juliet can just declare she's trans, and now the marginalized group is sticking to marrying within its classification
even if a crazy conservative wants this,
it hasn't fucking happened yet, so this stage hasn't happened"targeted groups are disarmed to make them incapable of self-defense," yeah there's not a high profile tragic recent event that would disprove this
Stage 7 - Preparation. See the link above in Step 5. We've known for awhile this is manufactured hate.
Preparation – Perpetrators plan the genocide. They often use euphemisms such as the Nazis’ phrase ‘The Final Solution’ to cloak their intentions. They create fear of the victim group, building up armies and weapons.
National or perpetrator group leaders plan the “Final Solution” to the Jewish, Armenian, Tutsi or other targeted group “question.” They often use euphemisms to cloak their intentions, such as referring to their goals as “ethnic cleansing,” “purification,” or “counter-terrorism.” They build armies, buy weapons and train their troops and militias. They indoctrinate the populace with fear of the victim group. Leaders often claim that “if we don’t kill them, they will kill us,” disguising genocide as self-defense. There is a sudden increase in inflammatory rhetoric and hate propaganda with the objective of creating fear of the other group. Political processes such as peace accords that threaten the dominance of the ruling group through elections or prosecution for corruption may actually trigger genocide.
you know, plucking out the mildest terms from this like "somebody is trying to sow fear of my group" and saying that counts is just the slimiest thing
xbox users can probably say that about some playstation users
Stage 8 - Persecution. I mentioned this earlier, but look at all the state laws that are either on the book, or very close to being on the book.
<<WE ARE HERE, IN BETWEEN STAGES 8 AND 9>>
Persecution – Victims are identified because of their ethnicity or religion and death lists are drawn up. People are sometimes segregated into ghettos, deported or starved and property is often expropriated. Genocidal massacres begin.
I am not even going to quote the full text of this one because holy shit sophia
android sophia is being so charitable and generous to not try to claim that step 9 is happening so no need to talk about it, but oh it's the end goal, believe it!
also why didn't you list step 10, denial
