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Paris unveils a memorial to LGBTQ+ victims of Nazi regime and other persecutions

c/world · u/MicroWave@lemmy.world · 499 points

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A memorial to the long-ignored gay victims of the Nazi regime and to all LGBTQ+ people persecuted throughout history has been unveiled in Paris on Saturday.

The monument, a massive steel star designed by French artist Jean-Luc Verna, is located at the heart of Paris, in public gardens close to the Bastille Plaza. It aims to fulfill a duty to remember and to fight discrimination, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said.

“Historical recognition means saying ‘this happened’ and ‘we don’t want it to happen again,’” Hidalgo said.

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u/WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world · 4 points

Don't worry. Even while they were drafting the universal declaration of human rights after WW2, which included self-determination (democracy), France (backed by the US) were trying to militarily reassert colonial control over south east Asia and Africa, same with the UK and their control of HK, etc.

They were so prejudiced they couldn't even grant "human rights" to non-whites (like 80% of all living humans).

u/Goretantath@lemm.ee · 1 points

You said "they deny it wasn't just a pipeline-" meaning you think it WAS something else.

u/FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 41 points

Came here to say this.

It's a bummer that more people don't read any history beyond what their textbooks say, and it's horrifying that these poor people went through the Nazi death camp system and still had to endure prison after WWII, just for consensually fucking another adult.

u/cyan_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 18 points

Plus, the 1948 definition of genocide only qualified racial, ethnic, national and religious groups as possible victims of genocide. LGBTQ people were defined out of the genocide they were suffering. Quite comfy for the Allies back then, and to Holocaust denialists and gender critical ideologists today.

u/LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee · 7 points

The queer community is still being forgotten even today. And with attacks on LGBTQ rights on the rise there are still people largely trying to distance the Nazis for being anti LGBTQ. They do this because they know that people still think Nazis are bad (for now at least) so they literally rewrite history to whitewash Nazi crimes against LGBTQ groups. They don't want their Nazi ideas of today being correctly associated with the Nazis.

We sadly live in a world where one of the most popular political commentators online says stuff like "I'm 99% sure the Holocaust happened" and "Well, it's my understanding that they didn't burn the trans literature book because they were trans. It's because the books were written in Jewish".

This is all to disconnect LGBTQ hatred from its Nazi connections.

If you don't know the "political commentator" I'm talking about you're a healthy person without brain rot. So I'll keep it that way.

u/Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 106 points

I find it so incredibly frustrating that even articles *specifically about* LGBTQ+ victims of Nazi persecution frequently fail to acknowledge that they were kept in prison **after** Nazi Germany fell, because gay sex was a crime and they were just considered criminals rather than victims.

u/MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml · 16 points

This is a raised warning finger to the US but MAGAs will not make the connection, only feel offended.