I am a person of trans experience. Jesse Singal's "crime" is challenging narratives that are comfortable, but are often wrong or over-simplified. That is not violent, and it's not an excuse to give in to a braying mob.

I'm done. You only care about history insofar as it supports your contemporary viewpoints and claims. You have no interest in contextualizing any information that contradicts your beliefs or challenges your ideology.

And of course, since you don't want to have a conversation any more, you're instead trying to whip up a mob of outraged followers. You've no more ideas left, I guess.

Wow, what a dishonest person you are. Horribly dishonest. It's been challenging to engage with you, but up to this point I thought you'd been giving it your best, and so I was tolerant. But not any longer. Sorry, this is over the line.

"Let's trans homosexual men in the service of rewriting history!" Look, two can play at that game. But it's a stupid game. raumdernamen.mauthausen-memorial.org/index.php?id...

By the way, what do you suppose this book contains? Are these "trans people?" In the article you linked (thank you), and which I read, yes, these would be "trans people".

You're incorrect. I'm not denying individual victims of the Holocaust. I'm denying that the Nazis systemically prosecuted "trans" as a class. Victims DID exist, they were surely persecuted for being sexual minorities, but not as a class that anyone, victim or victimizer, would think of as "trans".

So calling me a “Holocaust denier” for rejecting the retroactive framing of a “trans community” as a Nazi target misreads my view. I’m arguing for historical accuracy, not denial. Some victims might fit today’s “trans” label, though they likely didn’t see themselves that way.

The Frankfurt School’s archives, Berlin’s humanities libraries, and state collections in Prussia and Bavaria were stripped or destroyed. Museums and galleries were emptied of modern art, theaters censored. All were casualties of a single project: to erase dissent and enthrone ideology.

The Nazi purge of knowledge was systematic. Universities, law faculties, and research centers were purged of liberal (ie, Western) and Jewish scholars alike. The goal was to extinguish opposition to the Nazi collectivist ideology itself, not merely silence one school of thought or one institute.

I reject the narcissistic rewriting of history that recenters the Holocaust around a few symbolic victims while treating the mass murder of millions of Jews, Romani, and others as background noise. Hirschfeld’s library was one of many burned, not the singular emblem of loss.

It's so irresponsible to hand-wave away, or worse, characterizing as "sympathy", the work of understanding the mindset and motivation of the very human (yet abjectly inhuman) actions of a group like the Nazis.

Attached is a photo I took of the Berlin memorial to homosexual victims of Nazi Germany (photo 2019). Of course such victims existed and were targeted, and of course anyone "trans" was targeted AS PART OF THIS GROUP. Second photo is the monument/library for ALL victims, including *my* family.

I'd love for you to also argue that the Nazi categorization of Jews was also "irrelevant". However, it was exceptionally relevant.

I don't think you believe that.

Also, I'd like to acknowledge the thoughtful responses you'd left a couple of weeks ago (and the snarky ones!). I'm sorry, I haven't been engaged much on BSky, and I apologize I left you hanging.

I also agree that we're both individuals and members of various communities. However, one cannot reasonably say that the collective and the individual have equal moral weight. One must ultimately choose which is at the moral center of the universe.

I agree that it's surface level, but I disagree with your claim about "the only linkage". Both socialism and fascism prioritize the needs of the collective entity (which ultimately is "the state" in either case) over that of the individual.