Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!

On 18/02/2025 7:47 pm, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
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Putin is nothing like Hitler. He's got no enthusiasm for mass murder,
and there's no obvious evidence that he is zenophobic.

 Have you seen what he is doing to transgender people?  That is
zenophobia by another name and is an attempt to kill off a whole section
of the population by withdrawing needed medical treatment.

Not so much killing them off as making it more likely that they will commit suicide, but end result is still a lot of dead people.

Medical websites have been closed to prevent doctors treating their patients.

That's barbaric.

American history is being re-written to erase anyone suspected of being
transgender.

It is always being re-written, by people who feel the need to re-write history in a way that makes it palatable to them. It's not a useful exercise, but popular none-the-less.

Families with anyone transgender have been moving away
from certain states for some time, now a 'kindertransport'  organisation
has been set up to get transgender children and adults out of America
before the purges start in earnest.  It's not being publicised in the
gutter press, who are still printing transphobic rants, but it is
happening - in America - now.

One of a my American correspondents has a transgender child - now a daughter. The mother hasn't reported any such plan, but she wouldn't, if she had an any sense (and she's remarkably clever).
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Bill Sloman, Sydney