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| Rainbow flag compared to swastika |
| 2015-06-10 |
| h/t Gates of Vienna Morgan Emgardsson, who is a councillor for the centre-right Christian Democrat party in the city of Västerüs, rejected a motion by the City Council to fly a rainbow flag to mark the city's gay pride festival, saying that if the flag was approved then the Nazi flag should also be allowed. Emgardsson then attempted to clarify his position, saying: "I just wanted to say that if we allow the disclosure of an organization's flag, then we must allow others. The municipality should just have the Swedish flag and its own flag." |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #5 Hitler's initial struggles was the war between the "bears" homosexuals of that Austrian homo Adolf Hitler and the twinky effeminates of the German communist party...The Nazi party being the offshoot of the "Wander Vogels", the NAMBLA of the times: Link |
| Posted by: Herman Snoque9573 2015-06-10 20:12 |
| #4 JohnQC, I don't think he was making the comparison so much as saying if we put up one flag we need to put up other flags. Most slippery slope arguments end up with Nazi's or communists so he jumped directly to save time. So basically put up the rainbow flag but be prepared for the other requests when the floodgates open. It's much easier to just dodge the issue. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-06-10 14:48 |
| #3 -more recently they have discovered favor in the courts. Had this little tome during college to read. Among other themes in it, were the actions of the courts who acted against the Wiemar republic seeking to undermine it and sympathized with the anti-government movements. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-06-10 08:36 |
| #2 Those marching with the rainbow flag might be annoying, strident, shrill, and pushy. PC and guilt are their main weapons--more recently they have discovered favor in the courts. Hitler did have a coterie that included many in-the-closet homosexuals but at the same time, gays in Germany were persecuted and executed by the Nazis. IMO that gays today are not even close to the Nazis. I don't think there is much of a comparison. Gays in Nazi Germany." William Shirer's tome the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is a reasonably good history. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-06-10 07:35 |
| #1 Hat tip to Morgan Emgardsson. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-06-10 05:37 |