#antifascism — Public Fediverse posts

There is a political project underway to make transgender existence pathological again.

That distinction matters.

This is not merely about terminology. It is about institutional power: who gets to define a person's identity, whose account of their own existence is considered credible, and what happens when an individual refuses the definition imposed upon them.

The historical pattern is not particularly obscure.
First, difference is classified as disorder.
Then disorder becomes evidence of incapacity.
Incapacity becomes justification for paternalism.
Paternalism becomes coercion.

At that point, the institution no longer has to demonstrate that the person is dangerous. It merely has to establish that the person is not sufficiently competent to define themselves.

This is how medical authority can become a technology of social conformity.

And no, putting this process inside a psychiatric framework does not make it benevolent. Calling coercion treatment does not alter its coercive character. Calling confinement care does not make the locked door disappear.

There is a particularly grotesque irony here: people who insist that transgender identities are merely ideological constructions are perfectly willing to construct an elaborate ideological apparatus around the proposition that trans people are mentally defective.

The objective is not scientific neutrality.
It is disciplinary legitimacy.

So let us dispense with the euphemisms.

If your political programme requires declaring an entire class of people mentally ill because they refuse to live according to your preferred conception of gender, you are not practising medicine. You are practising social control.

And if your proposed remedy is to remove those people from society until they become sufficiently compliant, then the problem is not their supposed pathology.

It is your willingness to manufacture pathology in order to justify their removal.

History has a name for that kind of medicine.

It is not care.
It is not neutrality.
And it is certainly not progress.

We have already seen what happens when institutions are given the authority to decide which identities constitute legitimate human existence. We do not owe anyone the opportunity to repeat the experiment on us.

#TransRights #TransLiberation #TransIsNotAnIllness #QueerLiberation #MedicalEthics #HumanRights #Antifascism #EndTransphobia #NoGoingBack

Ah yes. The great fascist emergency:

RAINBOWS.

Apparently a bit of colour on a wall is now a sinister ideological occupation force.

Paint over it with a German flag, though, and suddenly it’s “just as it should be.” 🤡

And then comes my favourite little sentence:

“Tolerance and diversity are being forced on me.”

Oh sweetheart.

If your freedom requires everyone else to disappear, you don't want freedom. You want the freedom to spew your hateful nationalism without any resistance.

You don't want “unpolitical.”
You want your politics to be the wallpaper.

You don't want to be left alone.
You want us to be invisible.

And no, I don't think you're confused.

I think you know exactly what you're doing.

That's the ugly little secret underneath all that whining about “perversion” and “having things shoved in your face”:

You want us gone.

Well.

How terribly inconvenient.

We're still here.
We're loud.
We're queer.
We're colourful.
And we're not asking your permission.

Deutschland verrecke! 🏳️‍🌈

#Antifascism #FuckFascism #QueerLiberation #LGBTQIA #NoPasaran #Germany #Diversity #Pride

Ah yes. The great fascist emergency:

RAINBOWS.

Apparently a bit of colour on a wall is now a sinister ideological occupation force.

Paint over it with a German flag, though, and suddenly it’s “just as it should be.” 🤡

And then comes my favourite little sentence:

“Tolerance and diversity are being forced on me.”

Oh sweetheart.

If your freedom requires everyone else to disappear, you don't want freedom. You want the freedom to spew your hateful nationalism without any resistance.

You don't want “unpolitical.”
You want your politics to be the wallpaper.

You don't want to be left alone.
You want us to be invisible.

And no, I don't think you're confused.

I think you know exactly what you're doing.

That's the ugly little secret underneath all that whining about “perversion” and “having things shoved in your face”:

You want us gone.

Well.

How terribly inconvenient.

We're still here.
We're loud.
We're queer.
We're colourful.
And we're not asking your permission.

Deutschland verrecke! 🏳️‍🌈

#Antifascism #FuckFascism #QueerLiberation #LGBTQIA #NoPasaran #Germany #Diversity #Pride

Ah yes. The great fascist emergency:

RAINBOWS.

Apparently a bit of colour on a wall is now a sinister ideological occupation force.

Paint over it with a German flag, though, and suddenly it’s “just as it should be.” 🤡

And then comes my favourite little sentence:

“Tolerance and diversity are being forced on me.”

Oh sweetheart.

If your freedom requires everyone else to disappear, you don't want freedom. You want the freedom to spew your hateful nationalism without any resistance.

You don't want “unpolitical.”
You want your politics to be the wallpaper.

You don't want to be left alone.
You want us to be invisible.

And no, I don't think you're confused.

I think you know exactly what you're doing.

That's the ugly little secret underneath all that whining about “perversion” and “having things shoved in your face”:

You want us gone.

Well.

How terribly inconvenient.

We're still here.
We're loud.
We're queer.
We're colourful.
And we're not asking your permission.

Deutschland verrecke! 🏳️‍🌈

#Antifascism #FuckFascism #QueerLiberation #LGBTQIA #NoPasaran #Germany #Diversity #Pride

Ah yes. The great fascist emergency:

RAINBOWS.

Apparently a bit of colour on a wall is now a sinister ideological occupation force.

Paint over it with a German flag, though, and suddenly it’s “just as it should be.” 🤡

And then comes my favourite little sentence:

“Tolerance and diversity are being forced on me.”

Oh sweetheart.

If your freedom requires everyone else to disappear, you don't want freedom. You want the freedom to spew your hateful nationalism without any resistance.

You don't want “unpolitical.”
You want your politics to be the wallpaper.

You don't want to be left alone.
You want us to be invisible.

And no, I don't think you're confused.

I think you know exactly what you're doing.

That's the ugly little secret underneath all that whining about “perversion” and “having things shoved in your face”:

You want us gone.

Well.

How terribly inconvenient.

We're still here.
We're loud.
We're queer.
We're colourful.
And we're not asking your permission.

Deutschland verrecke! 🏳️‍🌈

#Antifascism #FuckFascism #QueerLiberation #LGBTQIA #NoPasaran #Germany #Diversity #Pride

Why do some Germans bow to Putin and Russian imperialism without any obvious need?

Because they mistake cruelty for strength.

They’re terrified of becoming Putin’s victim...

...and they admire the idea of having the same power over anyone they consider weaker.

Bow upwards. Kick downwards.

It’s not strength. It’s pathetic.

To hell with that worldview.

#Antifascism #NoPutin #NoAfD #NeverAgain #StandAgainstFascism

Good morning. 🌸

Within a single week, both the memorial bench and the memorial tree commemorating the Berlin CSD attack were vandalised and destroyed.

A bench.
A tree.
Both rainbow-coloured.
Both symbols of remembrance, solidarity and love.

It should be difficult to imagine anyone being angry enough about that to destroy them.

And yet here we are.

There is something profoundly rotten about a person so consumed by hatred that a rainbow-painted bench becomes an enemy, and a tree planted in memory of victims becomes something that must be ripped from the ground.

But perhaps we should stop pretending that this is merely some unfortunate disagreement between people with different opinions.

It isn't.

Fascism has never been satisfied with words. First it tells you that certain people are disgusting. Then it tells you they are dangerous. Then it tells you they don't belong.

And eventually, someone will start killing the people they feel don't belong.

So no.

There can be no compromise with that.

We will not make ourselves smaller so fascists can feel comfortable. We will not hide our colours. We will not politely negotiate over whether our friends, our families, our children or ourselves deserve to exist.

They tear down the tree?

Plant another.

They destroy the bench?

Build two.

They try to erase us?

Stand together. Stand visible. Stand unafraid.

Don't let hatred decide what our streets look like.
Don't let fear decide how loudly we love.
Don't let fascists teach us to disappear.

Show up. Speak out. Protect one another. Defend our spaces. Rebuild what they destroy. And never, ever surrender the ground they want us to leave.

They can tear down a tree.

They cannot uproot a movement. 🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#CSD #Berlin #Pride #QueerResistance #NoPasaran #Antifascism #QueerSolidarity

And yes, Slime's „Deutschland muss sterben, damit wir leben können.“

A little dramatic? Certainly. But I have never been particularly good at pretending the furniture isn't on fire.

As Brecht put it: „Wer A sagt, der muss nicht B sagen. Er kann auch erkennen, dass A falsch war.“

Perhaps that is the Deutschland I want to see die: the one that keeps insisting its old myths, hierarchies and cruelties are somehow sacred.

Not the people. Not the land.

The bloody idea that this is simply how things have to be.

#Slime #BertBrecht #Deutschland #Antifascism #NeverAgain #QueerResistance

Apparently, Everything Is Fine

Germany has apparently solved racism.

Nobody told the racists, obviously.

You point at racist abuse: isolated incident.

Anti-queer violence: isolated incident.

Fascists getting louder and more comfortable: you're being hysterical.

And when you say, "Actually, I'm starting to think about leaving," suddenly you are the one causing the problem.

The "funniest" part? It's not just conservatives doing this.

Liberals do it.

Some leftists do it.

People who can explain structural oppression over three coffees will suddenly become deeply philosophical about whether the racism happening right in front of you really counts.

"Germany learned from its history."

Yes, apparently the certificate is laminated.

"Don't give the far right ammunition."

Darling, the far right doesn't need my ammunition. They have their own fucking factory.

I am tired of pretending that denial is nuance.

I am tired of queer people being told to calm down while hatred gets louder.

I am tired of being told that what I can see, hear and experience isn't happening because acknowledging it would make somebody uncomfortable.

I still resist. Obviously.

I write. I speak. I organise. I show up. I remain gloriously fucking inconvenient.

But here's the thing:

Resistance does not require me to stay.

I can fight for Germany while quietly wondering whether Germany is somewhere I still want to build a life.

#Germany #Berlin #Racism #QueerRights #Antifascism #LGBTQIA #QueerResistance #SozialeVerrohung #NoHate

There is a German phrase I keep coming back to: soziale Verrohung.

Social brutality. The coarsening of society. The point where cruelty stops being shocking and starts becoming conversational.

And honestly? We are watching it happen in real time.

People aren't merely saying, “I disagree with you” anymore.
They are saying:
You are degenerate.
You are vermin.
You are unworthy of living.
You should be killed.
You should be sent to the camps.

And increasingly, they aren't even bothering to hide behind anonymous accounts.

Full names. Real photographs. Proudly attached to it.

That should frighten us.

Because dehumanisation is not just “strong language”. It is how cruelty becomes socially acceptable. First someone is annoying. Then disgusting. Then dangerous. Then somehow no longer quite human.

History has a rather ugly filing cabinet full of examples.

So no, I am not going to politely debate whether my friends, my community, or anyone else is sufficiently “worthy” of dignity.

Human rights are not a popularity contest.

And if your politics requires treating other human beings as disposable, perhaps the problem isn't that the rest of us need to become more tolerant.

Perhaps your politics is simply fucking monstrous.

#SozialeVerrohung #Dehumanisation #Antifascism #HumanRights #NeverAgain #QueerResistance #NoHate #ResistFascism

Today I was told I should leave Europe because I apparently hate white people so much.

Why?

Because I keep fighting fascism and Nazis.

And apparently, according to this person, my great ideological failure is that I refuse to name Muslims as the “main threat.”

Seriously?

The chap I buy my kebabs from is Muslim. The family running the grocery store across the street is Muslim.

The people who tried to beat me up in Utrecht were Czechs. The woman who recently verbally attacked me on the U-Bahn was Christian, and white.

And yes, the attacker at the Berlin CSD was an Islamist.

And that is precisely my fucking point.

I fight fascism.

White supremacist fascism. Christian fundamentalism. Islamism. Nationalism. Authoritarianism. Whatever flavour of hatred comes crawling out from under whatever rock it has chosen to call home.

I am not going to participate in the fascist fantasy that Muslims are the enemy while white men are apparently waiting nobly in the wings to save civilisation.

Sorry. I've met history.

I know what hateful white men are capable of when they decide that their hatred gives them permission to hurt people.

And frankly?

I know people I would much rather stand beside.

My kebab vendor.

That Muslim family at the grocery store.

People who simply get on with their lives, treat me like a human being, and don't require me to pass some ridiculous racial purity test before they'll show me basic decency.

So keep your fucking race-war fantasies to yourself.

I judge people by their actions.

Actually, scratch that.

I don't collectively judge groups of people at all.

Except fascists.

Because fascism isn't a skin colour, an ethnicity, a religion, or a continent.

It's a choice.

And if you've chosen fascism, congratulations: you've chosen me as your problem.

I have no intention of making your life comfortable.

#AntiFascism #NeverAgain #NoHate #Fascism #QueerResistance #ResistFascism #WhiteSupremacy #Islamism #ChristianFundamentalism #Solidarity #NoToHate

Protest is saying, “I don't like this.”

Resistance is saying, “This ends here.”

Protest is refusing to play along.

Resistance is making damn sure the game cannot continue.

Protest raises a voice.

Resistance puts its shoulder against the machine and says, “No further.”

Because sometimes saying "this is wrong" is only the beginning.

Sometimes you have to become the very inconvenient little bastard who makes sure it stops.

And yes, my friends, that is rather more work than holding a sign.

It is also rather more effective.

#Resistance #Protest #Antifascism #NoPasaran #QueerResistance #Solidarity #DefendDemocracy #NeverAgain

Fascism never lasts.

It may swagger. It may acquire uniforms, flags, ministries, billionaires, television channels and an absolutely astonishing number of mediocre men with very strong opinions.
But eventually, it breaks.

Because evil has terrible long-term management skills.

And then comes the most entertaining part.

The people who spent years cheering for it will suddenly develop an acute case of “Oh, I was never really one of them.”

The ones who marched will say they were merely observing.

The ones who applauded will insist they were being ironic.

The ones who spread the propaganda will suddenly discover the nuanced political thinker hiding somewhere underneath all that fascist garbage.

And the ones who demanded cruelty will solemnly announce that they always supported human rights.

Oh, Sweetie.
We have evidence.

That is why we screenshot.
Why we download.
Why we archive videos.
Why we preserve posts, speeches, usernames, dates and declarations.

Not because we are building some little book of grudges.
Because memory is a weapon against historical laundering.

Because victims deserve the truth. And perpetrators deserve no hiding space.

Fascism will end.
The uniforms will come off.
The flags will disappear.
The statues will come down.
And suddenly everyone will have been a brave little resistance fighter all along.

Except...
We kept the screenshots.
We kept the videos.
We kept the archives.
So when the reckoning comes, and it will come, there will be nowhere for these people to hide behind “I didn't know.”

We will know.

History will know.

And, regrettably for the fascist revisionists, the internet has a rather better memory than they do.

Archive everything.
Let them lie later.
We have work to do now.

#Fascism #Antifascism #NeverAgain #DocumentEverything #KeepTheReceipts #ArchiveTheTruth #HistoryMatters #ResistFascism #QueerResistance #NoToFascism