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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • The trans community, or any other community of marginalized people for that matter, is not a threat to any one person but to conformity and the status quo.

    Throughout history, very similar people held the most power and wealth, and power and wealth were passed on not by means of merit but through connections.
    But this power was always fragile and dependent on others, on servants, the lower casts and classes. Every now and then though, the lower classes unite, revolt and force the ones in charge to make concessions or straight up replace them.

    The rich and powerful obviously want to limit these occasions and the most effective way to do so is to make the lower classes believe that they are not the enemy and someone else is to blame for the misery, someone else wants to take the few breadcrumbs the lower classes have, someone else is the villain. As longs the lower classes have another enemy to fight, they’ll conform to the class system bestowed upon them by those who hold power, serve the system, consume the goods sold by the rich.

    But you cannot vilify just anyone. If you make the majority and enemy, they’ll resent and ultimately revolt. You have to pick those who are few and have limited capacity to fight back. Refugees, Sinti and Roma, Jews, the LGBTQ+ community.