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[tayefeth]

at a recent Prop 8 rally an official campaign spokesman actually compared the right of same-sex couples to marry to the rise of Adolph Hitler and Nazi Germany.

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[celandineb]

Excuse me, but WTF? If anything it's the other way around. Hitler's Germany was no easier on homosexuals than on Gypsies, Jews, and any other group considered "undesirable."

[tayefeth]

Yeah, well. The fanatical Right agrees with Dubya about how icky reality is, so you can't really expect them to acknowledge facts when they're making accusations...

[torasama]

It's the truthiness that counts.

[callunav]

It's possibly important to point out that in reality, the earlier years of Nazis in power were quite confused and hypocritical in this, and that homosexuality among the loyal men was - in fact, if not always in name - actually encouraged as a way of binding them more closely together. It was only after (and not unrelated to) the Night of the Long Knives (weirdly suggestive in itself, as a name) that the "party line," as it were, became quite unanimous and energetic about this

[the_resa]

This is called "stupid people desperately clawing at straws". The sad thing? Is these people believe this.

[callunav]

You know, the internet refers to Godwin's Law corrolates, but it was 1953 in realspace that Leo Strauss coined the phrase "reductio ad hitlerum".*

I don't know which is more sad, that no one seems familiar with that phrase any more, or that it's still needed

* Or so says Wikipedia.