Some of you just wanna be unserious and silly and draw cutesy art about the Frev. Look, I get it.
But also you need to wake up and realize we're already at stage 1 of Applied Fascism: Getting Rid of the Most Undesirable. A (real) genocide has already started. It's spreading everywhere in the so-called "developed world".
Trans people are the "easiest" to target among the LGBTQ+ the same way refugees ("migrants") are among BIPOC and immigrants.
Our governments are stealthily (not that much) allowing the purge of the most undesirable under "rational" criteria. They won't go against racial minorities head first. They'll get rid of those even racial minorities can agree are "icky". They too can be trans, disabled or mentally ill. And everyone grows old.
In Canada, euthanasia for the disabled, mentally ill and the elderly is increasingly popular and easier to get. Other countries are disintegrating their social and health care support systems in order to facilitate this exactly. Because then euthanasia seems like a "mercy". But the right to die isn't much of a choice when we're not allowed the right to live.
It's only going to get worse with pandemics and climate change. More people will be displaced, more people will get sick, more people will see a mercy killing as the preferable alternative.
There's a reason we seemingly "prefer" the Robespierristes, the Jacobins, the Montagnards, the Babouvistes etc. around "here" (y'know, the social media with the gay leftists?). They fought for our right to exist, survive, live and thrive. Moreover: many of them were us. Couthon and David were physically disabled, and literally called monsters because of this more than because of their policies. Prieur-Duvernois had a limp leg. Simon Duolay was an amputee. We can suspect that many of them would not classify within "neurotypical" or "straight", regardless of whether these categories existed or not.
The members of the "Great" Committee of Public Safety (the "twelve who ruled") were already by their society's standard classified as undesirable, worthless upstarts who claimed power they had no "natural right" to. Collot was an actor, Saint-AndrƩ was protestant: they were outcast in Ancien RƩgime society. Carnot and Prieur's military and scientific careers were blocked by old privileges. Couthon should have accepted to "privately retire and disappear from public life" as "good cripples do". Robespierre was almost born illegitimate and carried the stain of it, and that of his father abandoning him and his siblings, making them orphans. Saint-Just was barely recognized as an adult. Billaud had failed at most of his jobs - lawyer, playwright, teacher - and it wasn't entirely only his fault either. I could go on but you get the point. Each have been described as "mediocre" and "jealous" regardless of historical truth. Billaud's actual envy and frustration towards Robespierre's popularity isn't what they care about. It's their "mediocrity" and "jealousy" in regard to the "naturally dominant" classes, the nobility, the aristocracy - "the power of the best". Aristo means "best" - not because of their actual qualities, but best because of their birth which "naturally" should imbue them with the best qualities. The best bred - and here we see the origins of eugenics.
If you can't see how this is all connected, if you just wanna hang around the "history fandom" for "fun", don't get surprised if you get people to confront you about this. And stop crying about people not being "gentle enough". Some of us are being targeted for extermination. Being a minor isn't an excuse either. The world you're about to inherit is on the cusp of several collapses. You're either being willfully blind about this or too privileged to get it.
Other fandom exist. Including historical ones without the highest of political stakes that matter right now. If you can't stand the heat in the fandom at the forefront of the battle for modernity, democracy and humanity, just leave. No one is telling you to stay. No one is "bullying" you off. No one is telling you to die either. We want you to understand, and some of us - not just me btw - are at the end of our patience. Defending the French Revolution - and yes it needs to be defended - is also a fight for our present and future - and it's not looking great so far.