deriving "power" from becoming normal in a system (or changing the "normal" in the system to be you), instead of operating *outside* the system, is __________
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Replying to @Alephwyr
uh, trans people want to normalize “trans”, and some wish to enforce that normality so, maybe fascism
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Replying to @averykimball
Equivocation. Hitler both made himself as normal as possible (becoming a conduit for the will of the German people) and pursued policy that killed and coerced abnormal people. Trans people want not to be treated as deviants, which has to do with normativity maybe, not normality.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
wouldn’t even use hitler and normality and normativity ain’t so distinct as to use them like that but also, i’ve been dialing back “fascist/fascism” as a critique because it’s never appropriate today
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Replying to @averykimball @Alephwyr
like, hitler was more ethno-fascist, and trans people’s identities can be spotted into the fascist framework, if they try to force others to use their preferred identity, but if we want to have trans activism (which is warranted), we can’t act like fascism is bad in itself
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Fascist ideology is heterogeneous, but also things like state censorship or whatever obviously came before fascism and are not entirely equivalent to it. Better to say that not all inclinations or demands made by fascists are bad than that fascism itself is good
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