# I Pit Babale **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 7, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-babale/1016738 "2025-04-07T14:59:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-babale/1016738/7 "2025-04-07T15:27:52Z")
> [@What were you THINKING?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4668): > > > [@What were you THINKING?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4667): > > > > You two think segregation was a “fringe” view? > > No? Are you as stupid as you are fanatic? Where the fuck did I say that segregation was a “fringe” view in the past? It’s the part where you agreed with Demontree. > [@](#): > > DemonTree was clearly talking about segregation _today_, which is indeed a long discredited fringe view. Was she? Because none of the people she was referring to as making the comparison were. So why would you assume that, unless… Gosh, look at you, doing the very thing I keep saying you’re doing - minimizing what the transphobes and the GOP are doing, like the bad faith piece of shit liar you are. > [@What were you THINKING?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4667): > > And you think comparisons between the Nazi treatment of trans people and other minorities and what the current administration are pushing are “ridiculous”? > [@](#): > > The current administration is trying to shove trans people back in the figurative closet. This is incredibly fucked up, represents decades worth of progress lost, and will very likely cost lives. > > The Nazis put trans people in _literal_ gas chambers and then killed them. Ah, the “If they’re not _exactly_ like the Nazis were in 1944, they can’t be compared to Nazis” argument favored by bad faith piece of shit liars. The Republicans are trying to [shove trans people into **literal prison**](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-babale/1016738/1). And [to transfer trans women to men’s prisons where they will suffer horrific sexual abuse and potentially death](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/05/incarcerated-trans-women). And are **still** ramping up the anti-trans rhetoric to an extreme level. And we’re less than three months into this administration. But at least you acknowledged in passing that some might die in amongst your bullshit. So that’s something. > [@](#): > > You can call out the first one for being bad while recognizing that these are not the same thing, yes. > > Actually, correction - most adult human beings can do that - but I refer you to the previously posted diagram: > > [https://i.ibb.co/p6H1jqs6/Screenshot-20250405-145400-Samsung-Internet.jpg](https://i.ibb.co/p6H1jqs6/Screenshot-20250405-145400-Samsung-Internet.jpg) Or you could just pretend the really bad stuff isn’t happening, as you keep doing. Because you’re a bad faith piece of shit liar. > [@](#): > > To quote Order of the Stick again… Evidence for this theory continues to accumulate at an alarming rate. Yes it does…but not where you think. I’ve given you dozens of news articles. You’ve given us one irrelevant cartoon panel. > [@What were you THINKING?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4667): > > > [@What were you THINKING?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4667): > > > > > [@What is the maximum extent to which we are allowed to disagree with transgenderism (on the Dope)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-maximum-extent-to-which-we-are-allowed-to-disagree-with-transgenderism-on-the-dope/1015807/54): > > > > > > > [@What is the maximum extent to which we are allowed to disagree with transgenderism (on the Dope)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-maximum-extent-to-which-we-are-allowed-to-disagree-with-transgenderism-on-the-dope/1015807/53): > > > > > > > > _people should be treated accordingly in every area of **PUBLIC** life without regard for aspects of biological sex, and various other things._ > > > > > > But she didn’t, did she? And is treating people in the qualified way you present an extremist position? > > > > The mod note in that thread prevented any response to this. Perhaps you’d like to answer now? > > If by “every area of public life” you include sports, then yes, that’s an extremist position held by under 20% of the US population, and under 30% of Democrats. > > If you don’t include sports, and since “public” already carves out the exceptions most people would find it reasonable to consider sex assigned at birth for, like picking sexual partners or interactions with doctors, then it becomes a much less extreme position that’s supported by a much wider swath of the population (And a majority of Democrats). > > I really don’t think anything I’m saying there is particularly controversial. No, I believe you don’t. And yet you didn’t really respond to my actual questions. > [@Babale](#): > > In reality, when you say “this person is doing Hitler-like stuff”, people associate that with, you know, the Holocaust. > > And in reality, part of the reason we are here is that people have been making these comparisons to “early Hitler” since Bush if not earlier. It’s extremely counterproductive. It means that when Trump does something that IS incredibly beyond every possible line - like Jan 6 - it gets lost in the noise. I mean, all the Republicans are doing is ramping up a carefully-designed years-long propaganda campaign against a vulnerable minority in order to justify an ongoing pogrom against them, to distract from their power grab. It’s not like you ever saw the Nazis do something like that. 🙄 They are doing something that is beyond every possible line RIGHT NOW. And you’re a fucking idiot if you **don’t** think it’s happening. Which I think we’ve already firmly established. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-babale/1016738)._