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Originally Posted by Jerry  'Symbols exist in a vacuum' is not a statement I have ever made.
I never claimed that an act had to be present in order for any acclimation of any kind at all to occur.
A depiction of the act is more powerful than a symbol to acclimate society to the *act*, so, where is your link to a WW2 Jewish memorial depicting the *act* of practicing the faith? |
Jerry, I don't know where you got the notion that I was claiming that there exists a jewish memorial depicting the *act* of practicing their faith. After all, it wasn't their faith that got them killed, right? It was the fact of their ethnicity. So, I'll not be providing a link as evidence for something I never claimed existed.
I never said that you said that an act had to present in order for any acclimation at all to occur.
However, part of the effect (and purpose) of many Jewish Holocaust memorials is to acclimate populations of people to Jewish people through symbols that represent those people.
This 'gay' Holocaust memorial symbolizes the love that can exist between two men, which is precisely the thing that caused homosexual men to suffer during the Holocaust. This is no different than Jewish memorials that depict symbols of the thing that caused those people to suffer during the Holocaust - Their being Jewish.