I think the quote from Mark Twain about the two reigns of terror fits in this context as well.
Absolutely. Very apt, especially with the context of the image, which I was initially ingnorant of (and look at the fun reactions that I’ve had from people who I’ve had previous good interactions with due to that ignorance). I took it to mean “the wall” in general, calling for summary executions.
The Romanovs and every other royal and aristocratic family together committed crimes against quantities of humans that I think is likely in the billions. I do not think that the fate of the family, with exception of the children, is undeserved, though, arguably it was getting off light.
How many trans people have suffered unnecessarily due to transphobes, how many have died? How many cultures have been destroyed because Europeans came in and enforced a gender binary where there wasn’t one before?
The answer to both is too many. And it needs to stop.
And before you say reeducation, how many of these people have been educated but decided to ignore it because it’s a conspiracy of groomers, or they just don’t care about the scientific evidence and will just continue to hate it because it’s against their religion. What do we do with these people that refuse to change?
Many have been abused themselves and “educated” to be the way that they are. There are changes in their brains that heighten fear responses, etc. I am not completely certain of the best path for dealing with those that refuse to change but do know that refusing to give them a chance to change in the first place by executing them, as was my interpretation of the meme, is just murder.
I’m not meaning that we should pardon their crimes, if they have committed any, just that every excused murder makes it easier to excuse the next. And that makes it easier to excuse murders of a wider and wider group. State sponsored violence changes people.
Absolutely. Very apt, especially with the context of the image, which I was initially ingnorant of (and look at the fun reactions that I’ve had from people who I’ve had previous good interactions with due to that ignorance). I took it to mean “the wall” in general, calling for summary executions.
The Romanovs and every other royal and aristocratic family together committed crimes against quantities of humans that I think is likely in the billions. I do not think that the fate of the family, with exception of the children, is undeserved, though, arguably it was getting off light.
The answer to both is too many. And it needs to stop.
Many have been abused themselves and “educated” to be the way that they are. There are changes in their brains that heighten fear responses, etc. I am not completely certain of the best path for dealing with those that refuse to change but do know that refusing to give them a chance to change in the first place by executing them, as was my interpretation of the meme, is just murder.
I’m not meaning that we should pardon their crimes, if they have committed any, just that every excused murder makes it easier to excuse the next. And that makes it easier to excuse murders of a wider and wider group. State sponsored violence changes people.