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‘Transparent’ creator Jill Soloway considers Donald Trump to be ‘a complete dangerous monster’

Transparent creator Jill Soloway didn’t mention Donald Trump by name when she gave a powerful Emmy speech on Sunday when she challenged the audience to ‘topple the patriarchy!’

But backstage at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles, Soloway let loose on the Republican presidential nominee.

‘… He needs to be called out at every chance he gets for being one of the most a dangerous monsters to ever approach our lifetimes,’ she said. ‘He’s a complete dangerous monster. Any moment that I have to call Trump out for being an inheritor to Hitler I will.’

Soloway led into talking about Trump by discussing the show’s second season which has some dramatic flashback sequences involving the family of Maura Pfefferman, the transgender woman played by Jeffrey Tambor.

‘We follow the Pfeffermans back to Germany to Berlin right before the Holocaust and we try to tell a story about the Women’s Music Festival where there were people who were weighing in as to whether somebody was a woman or not, and we try to related it to the story of the Holocaust when people were trying to weigh in whether or not somebody was a human being.

‘We feel like it’s so incredibly timely – the notion of otherizing people as a way to gain political power,’ Soloway said.

‘So Jews were “otherized” in Nazi Germany to gain political power for Hitler. And right now Donald Trump is doing the same thing. He’s “otherizing” people. He calls women pigs if they don’t look like beauty pageant contestants. He blames Muslims and Mexicans for our problems. He makes fun of disabled people. This is “Otherizing” with a capital O.

‘It has been used in our history before to start and win wars.’

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