1900s ID Cards That Kept Trans People Safe from Harassment
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1900s ID Cards That Kept Trans People Safe from Harassment
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#2There is a great art exhibition on the era of the Weimar Republic in Frankfurt: http://www.schirn.de/en/exhibitions/2017/splendor_and_misery...
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#3There's a reason the Weimar Republic fell so fast. As we walk towards "Weimerica", I believe we are experiencing the similar things we studied about the fall of the Weimar Republic.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
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#4There's a reason the Weimar Republic fell so fast. As we walk towards "Weimerica", I believe we are experiencing the similar things we studied about the fall of the Weimar Republic. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
And pray tell, what is that reason and how is it related to this article?
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#5There's a reason the Weimar Republic fell so fast. As we walk towards "Weimerica", I believe we are experiencing the similar things we studied about the fall of the Weimar Republic. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
And pray tell, what is that reason and how is it related to this article?
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#6There's a reason the Weimar Republic fell so fast. As we walk towards "Weimerica", I believe we are experiencing the similar things we studied about the fall of the Weimar Republic. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
And pray tell, what is that reason and how is it related to this article?
Persecution of minorities, due to ethnicity or sexual orientation, is becoming particularly strong in modern day United States.
This relates to this article because it talks about how trans people were intentionally "kept safe".
Now pray tell, why do you think bringing up comparisons between two persecuting nations is so wrong?
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#7There's a reason the Weimar Republic fell so fast. As we walk towards "Weimerica", I believe we are experiencing the similar things we studied about the fall of the Weimar Republic. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
And pray tell, what is that reason and how is it related to this article?
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#8How do you deal with the arbitary actions of authority figures against you for being different? Get a piece of paper from a different authority figure that says actually this is fine.
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#9There is a field in state IDs and US passport files for previous names. It is ostensibly there for maiden names or fraudsters. Countless times it has outed me as a transsexual, and causes me to face harassment from cops or ICE agents.
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#10Seems like Hacker News is being co-opted by people with an agenda. I see more and more of these off-topic articles popping up on the front page