These efforts only increased after the Night of the Long Knives, the 1934 purge of Nazi leaders who were accused of trying to overthrow Hitler they included Storm Troopers leader Ernst Röhm, whom the SS murdered, later citing his homosexuality as justification for his murder. During that period, gay-friendly bars and clubs started being shut down, authorities burned the books at a major research institution devoted to the study of sexuality, and gay fraternal organizations were shuttered. Hitler saw gay men as a threat to his campaign to purify Germany, especially because their partnerships could not bear children who would grow the Aryan race he wanted to cultivate. Historian Robert Beachy argues that, ironically, the law spurred scientific interest in the study of sexual preferences, and that research tended to encourage a more scientific understanding of human sexuality, which further allowed the idea of gay rights to flourish.Īccording to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), that changed when the Nazis came into power in the 1930s. And the fact that it was almost impossible to convict anyone unless he confessed to such a crime in court meant that police just kept a watchful eye on gay bars and events, and Germany ended up becoming home to a vibrant gay community.
In 1877, the German Supreme Court of Justice clarified that to mean evidence of an “intercourse-like act.” But the law was only enforced sporadically. Since German unification in 1871, a section of the country’s criminal law widely known as “paragraph 175” had said that men who engaged in acts of “unnatural indecency” could go to jail. The roots of the Nazi persecution of gay people are deep. Those thus branded were treated as “the lowest of the low in the camp hierarchy,” as one scholar put it. Just as the Nazis forced Jewish people to wear a yellow Star of David, they forced people they labeled as gay to wear inverted pink triangles (or ‘die Rosa-Winkel’). This assertion makes zero sense unless you also hold animals to the same "don't kill other entities" standards, which I'm assuming you're not.The brightly colored symbol is now often worn proudly, but it was born from a dark period in LGBTQ history and world history. They kill other animals the same as humans do, but humans are simultaneously suppose to be on the same level as animals yet "know better" than to kill them at the same time. They don't invent moral codes nor do they differentiate between "good" and "bad" behaviors outside of survival purposes. And yeah sorry, animals don't operate on a "free will" level of consciousness like humans do, they operate on survival instinct. YOUR personal morals cannot be forced on others, that's not how moral agency works. You can't FORCE anyone to consider killing animals morally wrong, thats like forcing someone to consider sex before marriage wrong and making them live accordingly, which is what you're asserting.
Whether or not a human being considers animals spiritually relevant and wrong to kill is tied in with their personal moral code and overall world view. Just because you can't see it in front of you doesn't mean it isn't happening. That's what a lot of vegans do, we defend the voiceless. etc.?Įven if you would just call the police on your mobile? That's doing something to help. Would you pass by on the street if someone was doing the following to an animal, maybe a dog, maybe a cow: kicking, beating, raping, torturing, "bolting" (still leaving them conscious), slicing their ankles so they flop about on the floor until death, slicing their throats etc. The animals and the planet that you're destroying have no voice that you can obviously hear so we speak for them. You'll enjoy NOT eating meat at all more. You're nearly there, you can cut it all out.
We will always "lecture" until the education goes in. This website in Chrome is buggy AF! Duplicates your comments and then deletes all of them when you delete one of them.
I'll have to add another comment here now.