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Cake day: January 19th, 2025

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  • Maybe part of it is that, as a Queer person, I’ve been keenly aware of the Heritage Foundation (and similar org.s like Focus on the Family) and following their moves since the 2000s.

    They’ve been angling for these types of societal changes for decades and, like those who were intent on overturning Roe and were willing to work for it for a near century – slowly peeling off wins until they got it –, I knew they knew this was their moment and they were going to go for all of it, whatever it took to do it.

    I thought we’d nearly buried them and all the homophobic attempts and moves I’d watched them make throughout the previous 2 decades with Obergefell v. Hodges (the Overton window had finally moved in a way that was downright surreal compared to the for-granted and implicit apathy (at best) and disdain of the 2000s and early 2010s) which made the 2024 election particularly existential.


  • She’s definitely not wrong but, to me, it seems obvious that it’s capturing the level of scope. The hostages affect the families to which those hostages belonged but it’s the entirety of Gaza that was being attacked and starved (and, hence, the entire people).

    Granted, dehumanization doesn’t have to follow any logic to get kicked off and the wording could still have that effect, nonetheless.