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omg they made lemmy political

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[–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 28 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Not-so-fun-fakt: The actual Nazis were pretty homophobic.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

pretty homophobic?

queer people in concentration camps had their own identifier, a pink triangle, and it was bigger than identifiers of other imprisoned groups, so they could be seen better by the guards

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Right. They were ever-so-slightly homophobic. We don't want to overstate things here.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 7 points 2 months ago

Idk sounds pretty homophobic to me

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

And yet they did still manage to force them to share beds despite that basically the reason for them being there. That really puts the icing on the hypocrisy cake.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 8 points 2 months ago

Are you trying to say the Nazis were, in fact, not all about diversity, equity, and inclusion?

[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Despite the leadership around and including Rohm being quite gay.

[–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

According to the account by J.Fest, the perpetrators found Rohm and many of his henchmen in bed that evening. The other arguably gay aspect of Nazi culture is the Waffen SS officer uniform, it's very stylish compared with the grimly functional attires of the allied forces. None of this is an indictment of gay culture but interesting that it manifests in fascist regimes. Fragile men attempting to become more masculine go so far with their efforts that horseshoe theory comes into effect.