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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/fedilore/statuses/115113260356722926">The Fedilore Otter 🦦 (fedilore@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Aug-2025 06:08:55 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@fedilore" title="fedilore@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/245204-48-20240225232327.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="The Fedilore Otter 🦦" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">The Fedilore Otter 🦦</a><div><a href="https://mastodon.social/@fedilore/115113186434822607" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a></div></section><article><p>Other marginalized peoples trying to distract from the bigotry targeting them, by redirecting that hatred towards queer people, is also not new.</p><p>And while I get having sympathy towards people trying to do this sort of thing to take the targets off their own backs:</p><p>- It's not going to make the Nazis magically decide not to hate you.</p><p>- It is not justified, and we cannot allow people to justify it.</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/5561556#notice-10917900">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-08-30T06:08:55+09:00" title="Saturday, 30-Aug-2025 06:08:55 JST">about 3 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://gnusocial.jp/notice/10917900" rel="external" title="Sent from gnusocial.jp via ActivityPub">gnusocial.jp</a></span></span><a href="https://gnusocial.jp/notice/10917900">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/5138192">In 1945, Samuel Igra, a German Jew who had spent the war in England, published a book, Germany's National Vice, claiming that "there is a causal connection between mass sexual perversion" and German war crimes during both world wars. This was a new element not present in the 1930s antifascist discourse. Igra approvingly quoted British diplomat..., who wrote in 1938 that "The explanation for this outbreak of sadistic cruelty may be that sexual perversion, in particular homo-sexuality, are very prevalent in Germany." He argued that since both Judaism and Christianity have traditionally condemned homosexuality, "the Jews were the natural enemies of homosexual Nazi leaders such as Hitler and Röhm". Igra wrote:    I think it is reasonable to hold that the psychological forces that let loose the sadistic orgies of the concentration camps, the mass murders in Germany, ... and the subsequent atrocities in the occupied countries may be attributed mainly to one source and that this source is the moral perversion which was rampant among the Nazi leaders and which had its typical embodiment in Hitler himself.British scholar Gregory Woods describes Igra's book as "a sustained and obsessive pursuit of the myth of Fascistic homosexuality". Igra's argument is undermined by his failure to explain the Nazi persecution of homosexuals or to justify his claim that homosexuality increases antisemitism. According to Woods, Igra's claims have "reappeared at regular intervals ever since the war".</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/113/213/014/788/444/original/1d395145a9b61918.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/113/213/014/788/444/original/1d395145a9b61918.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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The Fedilore Otter 🦦 (fedilore@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Aug-2025 06:08:55 JST The Fedilore Otter 🦦
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Other marginalized peoples trying to distract from the bigotry targeting them, by redirecting that hatred towards queer people, is also not new.
And while I get having sympathy towards people trying to do this sort of thing to take the targets off their own backs:
- It's not going to make the Nazis magically decide not to hate you.
- It is not justified, and we cannot allow people to justify it.
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1. In 1945, Samuel Igra, a German Jew who had spent the war in England, published a book, Germany's National Vice, claiming that "there is a causal connection between mass sexual perversion" and German war crimes during both world wars. This was a new element not present in the 1930s antifascist discourse. Igra approvingly quoted British diplomat..., who wrote in 1938 that "The explanation for this outbreak of sadistic cruelty may be that sexual perversion, in particular homo-sexuality, are very prevalent in Germany." He argued that since both Judaism and Christianity have traditionally condemned homosexuality, "the Jews were the natural enemies of homosexual Nazi leaders such as Hitler and Röhm". Igra wrote: I think it is reasonable to hold that the psychological forces that let loose the sadistic orgies of the concentration camps, the mass murders in Germany, ... and the subsequent atrocities in the occupied countries may be attributed mainly to one source and that this source is the moral perversion which was rampant among the Nazi leaders and which had its typical embodiment in Hitler himself. British scholar Gregory Woods describes Igra's book as "a sustained and obsessive pursuit of the myth of Fascistic homosexuality". Igra's argument is undermined by his failure to explain the Nazi persecution of homosexuals or to justify his claim that homosexuality increases antisemitism. According to Woods, Igra's claims have "reappeared at regular intervals ever since the war".
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