The German Experiment That Placed Foster Children with Pedophiles
With the approval of the government, a renowned sexologist ran a dangerous program. How could this happen?
The German Experiment That Placed Foster Children with Pedophiles
With the approval of the government, a renowned sexologist ran a dangerous program. How could this happen?
In case it wasn’t clear, i was never complaining about the article, which does explain how this gets exploited by fascists. I was only arguing about the meme, which lacks that context, is realistically the only part most people here will engage with and gets reposted a lot as well. I get that this is outrageous, i don’t mind dunking on the BRD, either, it honestly deserves worse, but i can’t help but feel weirded out by this shit. I have been personally hatecrimed by an AfD supporter agitated by a campaign instrumentalizing the Kentler case, i can’t take this lightly.
Just saying I didn’t know about this prior to seeing the meme and my only thought was “Another west german L. If only the Soviets had marched to Lisbon.” It seems this likely will be seen much differently by people inside Germany than people outside it. For me as someone outside Germany I just see this as another example of capitalism and fascism being one and the same.
I wasn’t accounting for the meme properly. I think you’re right that the way that it’s totally decontextualized is not a good thing given the exploitation of the history, even if that’s not OP’s intention and within HB it wouldn’t be received that way.
from what serialexperimentsgay has said, it seems that perhaps this gets brought up by AfD people the way that people in the u.s. that are antitrans fascists bring up john money.
so i guess, do AfD agitation or their versions of this meme make the homophobic trope connection between pedophiles and queer people? this doesn’t do that, and most of the u.s.ians that aren’t homophobic bigots wouldn’t make that connection from seeing this image. we aren’t taught about the Kentler case and it is not common knowledge, so without further context, someone in the u.s. wouldn’t necessarily see this and start thinking about doing anti-queer hate crimes.
i’m just trying to better understand your perspective here, personally, not argue that we must have this meme or something.
I think there’s an argument to be made that the proliferation of a decontextualized recounting of these events creates an opening for fascists to come in and “contextualize” them with their distortions, as they already do all the time.