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the individual politics of the monument are incidental to its meaning. people are perfectly capable of doing the right thing for the wrong reasons, if that's even what happened. Europeans are extremely supportive of homosexuality, it's hardly unlikely that the monument has no broad public sentiment. Regardless, there are other monuments to the nazi persecution of homosexuals that were created without any extenuating political circumstances.
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So you're saying that they're trying to shove tolerance down the throats of everyone while asking taxpayers to flip the bill?
We're talking about a very,
very small number of a certain type of people that only gain recognition because it's impossible to question it without being labeled a homophobe or a bigot. Gays are shrouded within a cloak of absolute piety and self-righteousness that it becomes a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" scenario where they are heard no matter what, and you're wrong if you disagree, even if it's based on evidence, common sense, or legitimate fact.
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the reality is that the right doesn't like monuments like this because it forces people to confront the human cost of their kind of violent prejudice. it's easier to maintain the legitimacy of anti-gay stances for "religious" or "cultural" reasons when there isn't a broad public awareness of the logical conclusion of that position. Jim Crow in the south wasn't killed by politicians or laws, it was killed by television. when people in America who possessed nominally racist or pro-segregation positions (or at least some sort of apathy) were confronted nightly with the reality of southern race relations on the nightly news, the situation changed faster then it had in 50 years.
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Do Jews feel some need to shove the Holocaust down the throats of the non-Jewish populace? Do they constantly try to ruffle the feathers of non-apologists? I've never heard a Jew come up to me and scream, "If you're not absolutely repulsed by the Holocaust you're a festering piece of sh*t".
You can't tell me that building a public monument to something like this helps the cause any. If anything, it's just perpetuating the axiom that gays are attention whores of the highest order who will use any excuse to thrust their orientation in your face, whether you want them to or not.
There's already public awareness of gays. Trust me, there is. It's hard to ignore.
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awareness of the evil of that kind of bigotry is what will end it. for those who practice such bigotry it is vital to suppress the historical truth of anti-homosexual purges.
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If I went to downtown Damascus or Tehran and started crying about how Hitler killed six million Jews and that "they've already been hurt enough", do you think they'd just lay down arms against Israel? And Hitler
really stuck it to Jews. He just killed a couple gays because they were there.
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the very fact that people who will will in no way be impacted by this monument merely because it visibly supports an idea provides evidence for my position. if people who don't want this monument were motivated by rationality they wouldn't care. it has no impact upon them. if they're motivated by a desire to repress the reality of their position, or shear malevolence towards homosexuals, obviously it's of great import.
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I'm not impacted because of the methodology of its origin. A gay man with access to taxpayer revenue wanted to create a self-serving monument. Did we really need this built to know that Hitler is evil? If this was a communist or a Jewish mayor doing this, he'd be denounced...and he'd have much more rationale for constructing one than a gay man.