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the pink was removed because at some big flag protest idk which one there was not enough pink fabric - the teal idk. But I do like the sex-magic trans flag because what is transition but magicking your sex
I'm in my last year of school, and one of our final exams is this big spoken thing where we present for 10 minutes and then our examinators ask us questions for 10 minutes. I would like to write my presentation about whether the systematic oppression and eradication of queer people throughout history can be qualified as a genocide. Do you have any ressources you can point me to? Thank you!
I don't know that I have a perfect recommendation for this, but I have a couple of books I could suggest that might help! But hopefully my audience can help you find additional sources!
In short societies that just hate queer people and are doing violence and discrimination chaotically bit by bit is not genocide. For example misogyny goes on all the time in most societies but is not genocide.
A genocide is organised and systemic. It is committed by a state/government, or by their purposeful inaction while others do it in a systemic purposeful way. Genocide has intent to eliminate a group, 'a people'
Genocide is a specific legal term for one of the grave crimes against humanity, it does not mean a bigger scale or a more grave offence - the definition is more about the intent, more about how it builds up and is justified.
For example the transatlantic slave trade itself was not genocide even though it killed millions of people, destroyed people's cultures and languages, and treated them as not human in the gravest ways imaginable. It was the gravest crime against humanity, but of a unique type. Other mass atrocities that are not genocide include ethnic cleansing, and war crimes. Genocide does not mean a greater atrocity. It means a specific atrocity.
Have queer people experienced genocide? This is complicated by legal definitions of genocide which were based on national, ethnicity, or religion based group membership. The deliberate blame and dehumanisation of gay men with AIDS and the deliberate withholding of care, during the 1980s in UK and US is arguably a genocidal event because the whole group was targeted.
The US federal and red state oppression of all trans people at present, but particularly focussed on the hatred and monstering of trans women, is a more definitely genocide or approaching one. It aims to stop trans people existing as a group, and it is tied to political ideology and state actions. It involves removing statehood (like when ppl cannot have passports or ID) stopping us having children or removing children, injury because of group membership (the policies to put women into men's prisons without protection from sexual violence; denial of healthcare, forced detransition)
The Taliban murders queer people by government militias is another example where the political ideology was to wipe out a type of person, to wipe out the group.
During the Shoah (The Holocaust) the Nazi govt targeted gay men but more as criminals than a 'people' to exterminate, similar to how sex workers were treated. They certainly tried to destroy queer culture from the very start by burning our books and research institute. But it was not done in quite the same way that Jews, Roma, and Disabled people were considered people to be wiped out of existence entirely. Queer people are considered holocaust victims because we were killed, imprisoned, and experimented on, but it is complex to say when we are victims of genocide outside a wider mass genocide context, because states do not always see us as 'a people' - sometimes they consider us to be doing something wrong not being a type of person to eliminate.
Genocidewatch here make the case for a global genocide of queer prople outside the definition of genocide under international law https://www.genocidewatch.com/single-post/lgbtqi-persecution-the-global-genocide-of-gay-people
Cultural or state-led killings of gay people constitute Stage 9: Extermination in Genocide Watch's Ten Stages of Genocide.
A good place to start in making your arguments is looking at the stages of genocide and the international bodies that study and monitor genocide.
Genocide doesn't just happen in a vacuum. It is a crime that follows a largely predictable process.
Definitions of Genocide and Related Crimes | United Nations
it's crazy how plausible all the shit the corporations do in the murderbot diaries is. that one scene when murderbot was talking to those humans who had signed a 20 year corporate work contract and it asked them if the contract specified 20 years by the standard local calendar or by a proprietary calendar created by the company was downright unsettling 😬 if the ceos of modern earth companies read these books they would probably start crying because the government won't let them do most of this in real life.
hey fun fact this has absolutely happened before. part of the push to standardize time/timezones was because factory employers had clocks set to the pace of their machinery. meaning of the workers were not doing enough, time would run slower until they had reached their goal. there is historical precedent.
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