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That's why I wondered why they didn't use the Holocaust as a comparison rather than piggy back on African American struggles. The jews got their money and forms of reparation, unlike african americans who are still waiting on 40 acres and a mule. Would have a better success rate and probably would have got more than one state too. Plus it was the struggle that directly targeted them so it really wouldn't even be a comparison. The whole it being just as bad as slavery is a stretch.Originally Posted by whiterails
I think that the majority of the people saying that the two can not be compared aren't looking at the entire picture of the persecution of #$!$ sexuals. Obviously gays people now don't have it as hard as blacks circa 1850 America, but gays have been persecuted pretty harshly if you look at it from a broader perspective than simply the (relatively) recent United States. Gays have had it pretty rough in Europe as long the the Christian church was in power, easily 1200 years +, and don't forget that the Nazis sent a huge percentage of European gays to the gas chamber. Just saying, it was a lot rougher for the average gay person in Nazi-occupied Poland ca 1942 than the average African American in the United States at the same time.