Dictator Minute
If you think 2018 is a crap year, try 1933 on for size! What made the 1930s so miserable? Dictators! Not enough people know about dictators, but Dictator Minute aims to fix that. Take a minute every day to learn to learn something new. You'll be glad you did! 9. Dictators Target Transgender People First Dictators get their start dictatoring by going after the most vulnerable, least popular members of society. Before Hitler graduated to the Jews, he cut his genocidal chops on groups he knew "real Germans" would not miss: immigrants, the disabled, and transgender people. Very early, way before Germany's descent into mass murder, was the sacking of the Institute for Sexual Science, an institute that researched transgender-type things, performed reassignment surgery, and advocated for equal rights and tolerance. But Hitler and the people at his rallies thought that transgender and other non-conforming folks were impure, depraved, and "un-Germa...