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Old 08-13-2007, 03:27 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by tristanrobin View Post
Reminding the rest of the world how it all started, famed Austrian Nazi hunter
Simon Wiesenthal said,

'In the beginning, there were the words.'". ...
first we dehumanize our enemies
we demonize them
paint them as subhuman, sick, degenerate, perverts, disgusting, inferior, immoral...."

Or how about painting them as "bigoted, hateful, backwards, close-minded, religious fanatics, anti-gay buffons, intollerant, extremist?"

not fit to mingle with real humans
not fit to live

"Whose opinons are not fit to listen to, lest they cause another Holocaust."
then
when we round them up and systematically eliminate them
everyone will understand...
it had to be done
they were filthy
they were animals
they were disgusting
it had to be done
it's to make the world a better place for the rest of us....
its not like they were REAL people.....
they were just "jews, gays, blacks, atheists"
subhumans
words of hate lead to acts of violence
Yes, words of hate CAN lead to acts of violence.
Although this statement REALLY oversimplifies how it all got started. There had been tension between Jews and others in Europe for hundreds of years. Hitler and the Nazis didn't INVENT the hatred of Jews.. they just played up on it because it was politically advantageous for them to do so. Totalitarian movements NEED a boogeyman in order to succeed.

Anyway, that's beside the point.

When people say truely HATEFUL things about gays (or anybody), I'm on your side.
But not everybody who deviates even one wit from: "Homosexuality is perfectly natrual for some people and there's absolutely nothing wrong or strange about it" is being HATEFUL.

The sooner the gay rights movement can realize this, the better chances they have, IMO, of not ultimately looking intollerant themselves and suffering severe setbacks.
If at first you don’t succeed – try, try again and then quit. There’s no sense in making a damned fool of yourself. – W.C. Fields