• ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
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    11 hours ago

    So pathetic and petty. What did this person ever do to them? The mental gymnastics needed to justify using the freaking House of the United States to punish a single person who they likely have never met, for an immutable personal trait? It gives me a headache to even try to understand it.

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      11 hours ago

      Simple, it’s just an excuse to be hateful. It’s not complicated.

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      10 hours ago

      The mental gymnastics needed to justify using the freaking House of the United States to punish a single person who they likely have never met, for an immutable personal trait?

      One of the big downsides to pretending 100% of Holocaust victims were Jewish is that the 50% who weren’t were sent to the camps for other reasons.

      Like being Trans, or any other kids and of LGBT. The problem was even “the good guys” were anti-lgbt back then, just look at how they treated their war heroes:

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Homosexuality_and_indecency_conviction

      And then America, who had taken in all types of Nazis scientists, denied Turing entry just to fucking take a vacation.

      I think this is why so many people are shocked by trump winning, people actually believed Americans were inherently good, and they believed it.