• BurningnnTree@lemmy.one
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    7 days ago

    What kind of trash tier journalism is this. Genocide is a real, serious issue. You can’t just call something a genocide metaphorically, that’s incredibly disrespectful.

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      7 days ago

      Lack of healthcare and lack of rights and protections that are common for other minorities, together with a huge deal of oppression, often violence and sometimes murder, is absolutely a kind of genocide, and in no way disrespectful to other forms of genocide.

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        I’m gay. And this isn’t genocide. You could use hate, bigotry, segregation possibly, but genocide requires death, not “sometimes death,” and it’s the whole group, not just the ones who cannot defend themselves. Rich LGBT in the UK are doing just fine.

        Genocide is the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.

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          If a transsexual can’t have proper healthcare, it can in fact result in death, that is very real.
          Another thing that’s real is that they are treated so poorly in general that they have the highest suicide rate by far of any minority.
          Finally many choose not to live as the gender they wish they could, because it’s too problematic even dangerous. Even if this isn’t a physical death, it is killing the existence of people that can live their life as transgender.

          Much the same way as the Iranian president when he visited New York some years ago, claimed that Iran did not have homosexuals, so there was no oppression of them.
          A completely ridiculous claim we know is biologically impossible, and we know is false because they seek refuge in the west.
          And we know Iran executes people for being homosexual, which of course is the ultimate genocide of homosexuals.

          Or will you deny that too?
          https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3642673

          Iranian president says country has no gays

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        7 days ago

        The advocate is a very real organization. However, they lean towards the dramatic. That’s how you get attention to topics that some people don’t want to think about.