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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn case you didn't think Dinesh D'Souza was a big enough twit, yet
He comes up with this turd:
Link to tweet
The responses on Twitter have been predictably blistering. So, y'know, there's that.
Also, a good thread debunking D'Souza here:
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madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)The pink triangle did not denote membership in a gay geometry club. The pink triangle was used in concentration camps to mark the LGBTQ inmates. Those inmates were subsequently gassed by the Nazi guards.
lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)In late February 1933, as the moderating influence of Ernst Röhm weakened, the Nazi Party launched its purge of homosexual (gay, lesbian, and bisexual; then known as homophile) clubs in Berlin, outlawed sex publications, and banned organized gay groups. As a consequence, many fled Germany (e.g., Erika Mann, Richard Plant).
In March 1933, Kurt Hiller, the main organizer of Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute of Sex Research, was sent to a concentration camp. On May 6, 1933, Nazi Youth of the Deutsche Studentenschaft made an organized attack on the Institute of Sex Research. A few days later on May 10, the Institute's library and archives were publicly hauled out and burned in the streets of the opernplatz. Around 20,000 books and journals, and 5,000 images, were destroyed. Also seized were the Institute's extensive lists of names and addresses of homosexuals.[4] In the midst of the burning, Joseph Goebbels gave a political speech to a crowd of around 40,000 people.
Hitler initially protected Röhm from other elements of the Nazi Party which held his homosexuality to be a violation of the party's strong anti-gay policy. However, Hitler later changed course when he perceived Röhm to be a potential threat to his power. During the Night of the Long Knives in 1934, a purge of those whom Hitler deemed threats to his power took place, he had Röhm murdered and used Röhm's homosexuality as a justification to suppress outrage within the ranks of the SA. After solidifying his power, Hitler would include gay men among those sent to concentration camps during the Holocaust.
Heinrich Himmler had initially been a supporter of Röhm, arguing that the charges of homosexuality against him were manufactured by Jews. But after the purge, Hitler elevated Himmler's status and he became very active in the suppression of homosexuality. He exclaimed, "We must exterminate these people root and branch... the homosexual must be eliminated."[5]
Shortly after the purge in 1934, a special division of the Gestapo was instituted to compile lists of gay individuals. In 1936, Himmler created the Reichszentrale zur Bekämpfung der Homosexualität und Abtreibung (Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion).
Nazi Germany thought of German gay men as against the plan of creating a "master race" and sought to force them into sexual and social conformity. Gay men who would not change or feign a change in their sexual orientation were sent to concentration camps under the "Extermination Through Work" campaign.[6]
More than one million gay Germans were targeted, of whom at least 100,000 were arrested and 50,000 were serving prison terms as "convicted homosexuals".[1] Hundreds of European gay men living under Nazi occupation were castrated under court order.[7]
Some persecuted under these laws would not have identified themselves as gay. Such "anti-homosexual" laws were widespread throughout the western world until the 1960s and 1970s, so many gay men did not feel safe to come forward with their stories until the 1970s when many so-called "sodomy laws" were repealed.
irisblue
(32,980 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)that I suspect he may have a serious personality disorder, but perhaps just traits of. He's effectively used feeding the tastes of whackadoodles to become wealthy and famous.
nocalflea
(1,387 posts)How ignorant can one person be.
And this:
@ DineshDSouza
The term Nazi is a compression of the terms " National" and "Socialist" (Sozialismus)--hence all Nazis are by definition on the Left
https://mobile.twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/915937811420844033
Yes, by all means rewrite history to support your demented view of the world.
Saviolo
(3,282 posts)I'm thinking that this recent "Nono, Hitler was TOTALLY pro-gay!" is more weapons-grade baloney aimed at trying to push the "nazis are actually leftists" bullshit talking point that has been getting some mileage lately.
"But but but they were SOCIALISTS!! It's in the name!!" a bloo bloo bloo
nocalflea
(1,387 posts)His followers will latch on, even if they know the truth. I'm disgusted . Don't expect intellectual honesty or integrity from this idiots , but damn , it's so incredibly frustrating.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)skypilot
(8,854 posts)...to try to defend Hitler on this particular issue? Wrong as he is.
Gothmog
(145,313 posts)This idiot managed to both violate the current campaign finance laws and go to jail for this stupidity
Saviolo
(3,282 posts)dsc
(52,162 posts)I thought he got probation.
Saviolo
(3,282 posts)Saviolo
(3,282 posts)5 years probation.
JHB
(37,160 posts)sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Inveterate liar and distorter of reality Dinesh DSouza went on Fox and Friends, where his lies are sure to impress the slack-jawed halfwits on that couch, and claimed that Hitler took his ideas directly from the Democratic Party in America.
Read more at http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2017/08/02/dinesh-dsouza-still-terrible-liar