{"id":4045,"date":"2023-05-02T17:04:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T01:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stumble.com\/wp\/?p=4045"},"modified":"2023-07-05T20:54:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T04:54:25","slug":"trans-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumble.com\/wp\/trans-panic\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans Panic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CrrFdILp7i5\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1648\" height=\"1218\" src=\"https:\/\/stumble.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-02-at-5.28.45-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4044\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stumble.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-02-at-5.28.45-PM.jpg 1648w, https:\/\/stumble.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-02-at-5.28.45-PM-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stumble.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-02-at-5.28.45-PM-1024x757.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stumble.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-02-at-5.28.45-PM-768x568.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stumble.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-02-at-5.28.45-PM-1536x1135.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1648px) 100vw, 1648px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The GOP&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/05\/02\/missouri-transgender-medical-limits-bad-idea\/\">demonization of trans people<\/a> and drag queens makes me increasingly uneasy. You don&#8217;t have to be a history scholar to realize the tactics are ripped directly from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theholocaustexplained.org\/the-nazi-rise-to-power\/the-nazi-rise-to-power\/propaganda\/\">the Goebbels playbook<\/a>. Seems pretty clear that they&#8217;re trying to distract from past GOP policy failures that have made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-41488081\">gun violence a fixture of American life<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/q-and-a\/the-regulatory-breakdown-behind-the-collapse-of-silicon-valley-bank\">created another banking crisis<\/a>, and of course <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/trump-white-house-made-deliberate-efforts-undermine-covid-response-report-n1286211\">allowed COVID to become the worst pandemic in a century<\/a>. Americans who continue to support Republicans in 2023 have all the morals of Germans who supported the Nazis in 1923. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GOP&#8217;s demonization of trans people and drag queens makes me increasingly uneasy. You don&#8217;t have to be a history scholar to realize the tactics are ripped directly from the Goebbels playbook. Seems pretty clear that they&#8217;re trying to distract from past GOP policy failures that have made gun violence a fixture of American life, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumble.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumble.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumble.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumble.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumble.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4045"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stumble.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4050,"href":"https:\/\/stumble.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions\/4050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumble.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumble.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumble.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}