When the Nazi concentration camps were liberated by the Allies, it was a time of great jubilation for the tens of thousands of people incarcerated in them. But an often forgotten fact of this time is that prisoners who happened to be wearing the pink triangle (the Nazis’ way of marking and identifying homosexuals) were forced to serve out the rest of their sentence. This was due to a part of German law simply known as “Paragraph 175” which criminalized homosexuality. The law wasn’t repealed until 1969.
This should be required learning, internationally.
You need to know this. You need to remember this. This is not something to swept under the carpet nor be forgotten.
Never. Too many have died for the way they have loved. That needs stop now.
Make it stop?
I did a report on this in my World History class my sophomore year of high school. It was incredibly unsettling.
My teacher shown the class this. Mostly everyone in the class felt uncomfortable.
I have reblogged this in the past, but it is so ironic that it comes across my dash right now. I a currently working as a docent at my city’s Holocaust Education Center (( I say currently because I’ve also done research and translation for them )) and out current exhibit is one on loan from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ((USHMM)). This is a little known historical fact that Paragraph 175 was not repealed after the war and those convicted under Nazi laws as a danger to society because they were gay were not released because they had be convicted in a court of law. There was no liberation or justice for them as they weren’t considered criminals, or even victims for that matter. They were criminals who remained persecuted and ostracized and kept on the fringes of society for decades after the war had been won. Paragraph175 wasn’t actually repealed until 1994. And it was only in May 2002, that the German parliament completed legislation to pardon all homosexuals convicted under Paragraph175 during the Nazi era. History has forgotten about these men and women — please educate yourselves so this does not happen again. Remember this history. Remember them.
Day: June 23, 2016
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Found on Facebook
Ain’t this the truth…get that vote out – vote remain!
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how come each one of these looks more sinister than the last
here at Boston Dynamics our robots can separate cups from cans on any floor of the house
oh my gosh!!! honestly this delights me more than anything, omg. love those little googly eyes on the head. omg.
I just. find robots super endearing and it’s amazing what these people have made so far.
A robot that washes dishes, takes out the trash, and slips on banana peels…just like my husband. Getting closer to replacing DH with a robot.
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I love so many things about this ?#?NoBillNoBreak? sit-in, but the thing I love the most is John Lewis’ facial expression. He has Resting Protest Face. He doesn’t give a shit about your guns, or your parliamentary procedures, or your C-SPAN cameras. He’s heard you want to put him on Periscope but he’s not sure he gives a shit about that either. He’s like “Did you see Selma? You remember the John Lewis character? That was me. John ‘I asked for and received an apology from the Klan’ Lewis.” He is the human personification of the expression “You tried it.” He most definitely doesn’t give a shit about Paul Ryan. When asked for comment about how Paul Ryan compared to political foes he’s encountered in the past, Lewis thought for a second and replied “He doesn’t have the range.” John “Freedom Rider” Lewis has an honorary doctorate in sitting. Don’t come for him unless he sends for you.
R. Eric Thomas – I love so many things about this #NoBillNoBreak…
My favorite: “He is the human personification of the expression ‘You tried it.’”
(via jasmined)
“He doesn’t have the range” is so brutal in its dismissiveness.
(via whatblogidonthaveablog)
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[M]en who share household and child-rearing responsibilities with women are mistaken if they think that this act of choice, often buttressed by the gratitude and admiration of others, is anything like the woman’s experience of being forcibly socialized into these tasks and of having others perceive this as her natural function in the scheme of things.
Uma Narayan, “The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from a Nonwestern Feminist” (1989)
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Gordon Werner on Twitter
PAID I-1515 SIGNATURE GATHERERS ARE TELLING PEOPLE THAT IT’S A PRO-TRANS-RIGHTS INITIATIVE, RELYING ON COMPLETE IGNORANCE – DON’T FALL FOR IT, DON’T BE STUPID, REPORT IT IF YOU SEE IT.
In real life, I-1515 is a vicious anti-queer initiative that actually targets trans kids with abuse and puts a $2500 bounty on their heads and I am not even making that up.
IF YOU SEE IT, SAY SOMETHING.
AND SHARE THIS LIKE FUCKING WILDFIRE, THIS HAS TO GET OUT, PARTICULARLY TO APATHETIC DEMI-POLITICAL FRIENDS.
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We must not pretend that the countless people who are routinely targeted by police are isolated. They are the canaries in the coal mine whose deaths, civil and literal, warn us that no one can breathe in this atmosphere.
Sonia Sotomayor, in her dissent of the recent SCOTUS ruling allowing police to illegally search anyone’s private property for any reason and to use anything they illegally acquire against you in a court of “law.” (via iwriteaboutfeminism)
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House Democrats stage sit-in for gun control action
Democratic members of Congress led by Rep. John Lewis (D Ga.) staged a sit-in Wednesday morning on the House floor, demanding a vote on gun reforms in the wake of the Orlando, Florida, massacre. More than two dozen members joined in. Right after they started, the GOP took steps to make sure few saw the sit-in.