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thucythucy

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5. I'm not holding him "blameless"

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Reply #4)

Mon May 14, 2018, 10:23 AM

May 2018

since he helped Hitler rise to power. So he's at least partly responsible for all that followed.

I'm just objecting to using him to contend that the Holocaust was some sort of "gay plot" as a fairly transparent attempt to smear the LGBT community today. Aside from being blatantly bigoted, the effort is also historically way off base.

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Republican Who Claims Holocaust Was Orchestrated by Gay Nazis Wins Enough Support for Massachusetts [View all] TexasTowelie May 2018 OP

FFS!!!! n/t RKP5637 May 2018 #1

I guess he's referring to Ernst Rohm left-of-center2012 May 2018 #2

Just to be clear, Rohm was executed by Hitler in 1934, thucythucy May 2018 #3

Correct left-of-center2012 May 2018 #4

I'm not holding him "blameless" thucythucy May 2018 #5