magnetothemagnificent:

assassinationtipsforladies:

It just fucking…. bums me out how determined a lot of leftists are to not notice antisemitism. One of my friends in Facebook posted this

And it’s like…… A fucking HAPPY MERCHANT caricature is on that poster. I’m not fluent in German or anything but even I know Der Juden is “The Jews” this poster is identifying the Jews as responsible for turning the freaking Aryans gay. Like the tweet, or tweet chain, could have easily said something like:

“something something jungverbender is a word meaning groomer or corrupter of youth” The Nazis accused Jewish people of engaging in a conspiracy to groom Aryan youths to be gay or trans in order to lower the birth rate. This rhetoric ended in both Jews and gay or trans individuals being horrifically oppressed by the Nazis. Trans people were classified as mentally ill and put under the same extermination orders as other disabled people. Gay men were imprisoned in the concentration camps and, as homosexuality was recognised as a crime by the allies, often stayed imprisoned after the liberation of the camps. Approximately a third of the Jewish population of the world were killed in the camps. This same rhetoric is being used today against trans people and is no less dangerous today than it was then. Young people are not now and were not then being “groomed” into being LGBT+. Queer youth are being accepted for who they are and are being more open about their real gender and sexuality than they have in the past, much as they were in certain places in the Weimar Republic.

You don’t have to minimise what the Nazis did to queer people in order to acknowledge the anti-semitism driving them.

Like the Happy Merchant is literally right fucking there. What the fuck? How do you not see that???

[id: screenshot of a tweet by @EliErlick reading: “🧵: Vocabulary time! I want to introduce you to two Nazi terms, Jugendverführer and Jugendverderber: "seducer” and “corrupter” of youth (see: “groomer”). These stereotypes depicted a figure who lured young people into the “epidemic” of Weimar queer and trans communities.“ Below is an old photo of six men, some wearing Nazi uniforms, reading a newstand titled "Mit dem Stürmer gegen Juda”, with the headline underneath reading “Die Juden sind unser Unglück”. Underneath are articles and a caricature of a man with a very large nose and sly grimace. ]

Not so friendly reminder that Magnus Hirschfeld was Jewish and some of the leading voices in the study and humanization of gay and gender diverse people were Jewish.

The Nazi regime’s homophobia and transphobia cannot be seperated from its antisemitic roots, and you can’t talk about the Nazis’ homophobia and transphobia without talking about the antisemitism.

Also, for those interested, the German text reads “With the Stürmer against Judah” (yes, that “Stürmer”, and yes, “Judah” meaning “Jews”).

The headline underneath reads: “The Jews are our downfall”.

So yeah, the antisemitism is that obvious, but LGBT gentiles are that willfully ignorant.