I mean, you missed the part where it wasnt about being 'not jewish'. It was about them not being human (or at least the worst human) so the Nazis could murder them. If anything, the Nazis were trying to PROVE people were Jewish
Making a claim that Nazis were trying to tell people they weren't Jewish misses what actually happened
The direct analogy is that nazis wanted the Jews to cease to exist ("or else", yes). They went with the stick-a-label visibility route - although you could argue that there was an invisibilization in cultural reappropriations, when they "aryanized" works made by or representing jews, yet that they wished to keep, but that's not even what I meant. When I talk of "ethnocide and forced assimilation", I refer to a Nazi dream of germanic homogeneity that didn't start and stop with antisemitism. Nazis were re-cutting, re-defining, rearranging cultural identities in (mostly Eastern) Europe according to their mapping of germanism, hierarchizing, pushing away, killing, whatever wouldn't accept or fit in that imposed classification. And, again, it's not even specific to Nazi Germany. Greece did deny and "physically adjust" the existence of many human groups that didn't fit (religiously/linguistically/ethnically) in its national narrative, effectively erasing them from the national self-perception. It's always the same logic, of pre-deciding an allowed reality, and constructing a path to enforce its self-fulfillement. Modalities vary, but the action is the same : an ontological denial, the cancellation of the right to exist, the definition as an aberration to resolve.
Heck, sometimes it's even just as basic as the denial of being part of the local : a simple arbitrary otherization is its the most mundane form, nowadays - like the true scotsman-ish "you cannot be both european and muslim because that does not exist" type of discourse of christian nationalists, adjacent to other regions' "we have no gays here, therefore if they are gays then they are not ours". It's a very short continuum of rhetorics, fulfilling the same function, and ending with the transphobic (and occasionally ethnic) disqualification.
Republicans don't want to eradicate trans people, that is just absurd.
You people want them to not exist, that's all. Because they conflict with your traditional beliefs about what sex and gender is, and updating this view is blasphematory to you. So you shoehorn real life back into these pre-defined categories with all the required violence, crushing (legally, socially, medically, phychologically) whoever needs crushing for that. And also throwing a carpet over it, because god (literally) forbids if gender studies seep into in common knowledge. The biblical cultural categories need to be inculcated young with a creationist's zeal, the prejudice maintained, and the knowledge kept as far as schools as possible - or else oh no all your little world falls apart, destruction of family structure and therefore civilization and therefore mankind and whatnot. But thankfully you have a candidate running a true crusade for the american theocracy. Your totally not authoritarian taliban will make sure Jesus stays proud of America, its obediently breeding women, its comfortably deniable queers, its lucrative climate destruction, its rightfully unchecked pandemics, its unquestioned systemic racism, its glorious cult of violence and its venerable 19th century beliefs.
Seriously, I could have a modicum of respect for republicans if they had had the decency to support something more humane than a trump or a de santis. But your spiralling down towards the trashiest trash is inexcusable. I say it again, you people are absolutely vomitive. And you had a lot of choice, outside this race to the extreme. You are what you decided to be. You play the victim, like "oh it's just because we are republicans of course they call us names" but no, you opted to become that. You 100% own the fascist label. You won't normalize your new standards.
What you'd really need at this point is a historical mirror. But I suspect a lot of you would be perfectly proud of what they'd see in it.
No, you've imagined the "or else" in your perpetual fever dream.
A lot of real life blood magically spills out of this "fever dream", apparently. Unrelated to trans people's refusal to cease to exist despite your injunction, I assume. But it always comes down to that, you dream up a world devoid of a certain category, and you're ready to destroy all the lives that too persistently refuse to fit in the remaining slots. Because religious fanatics of your ilk are fundamentally incapable of experiencing empathy outside your subcultural bubble.
Heck, you're perfectly fine with "be heterosexual OR ELSE be denied job, healthcare and housing". So, what's your "or else" concerning trans people who persist to be regardless of your denial of their existence, already ?
Implicitely, the exact same one as the 1930s nazi supporters when it came to Jews still being there. "Remove them from our horizon, I don't want to know how, I trust you'll do the necessary". The tstorms will go "Just make the laws", the phoenixmgs will go "Just apply the laws", and both pairs of hands will be super clean.
All in all, the platform of transphobia is as politically efficient as antisemitism used to be, and spins the same cogs. In the same kind of people.
