Yes, I know exactly how odd that title sounds. Because yeah, it is. I mean, hell, the Nazis killed homosexuals. A lot. Happily. The pink triangle has been, for some time, a symbol [a mostly forgotten symbol at that] of oppression and homophobia and utter hatred.
And now, we have a music video featuring… well, homosexual Nazis.
Wait, what?
Look, a lot of the time I absolutely love Lady Gaga [Bad Romance is currently one of my favorites], but this is ridiculous. Utterly and totally ridiculous, absurd, and [dare I say] REALLY FUCKING OFFENSIVE. Nazis, or at least men wearing stereotypical SS/uniform hats… wearing high heels and playing with each other. Oh, and then apparently trying to gang rape her.
Man, I am so sick of this bullshit. I know there’s a lot of drama surrounding “retaking” a word: cunt, for example. Or nigger. Whatever. But when you take something that is so utterly horrifying [the systematic planned destruction of the “subhumans” — Jews, Poles, Romani, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, sexologists, all of them] and use it… in a music video… I just can’t … I don’t honestly know what to say about it.
Yeah, there’s a time and a place to use history in entertainment [The Longest Day, Stories from Iwo Jima], even something as atrocious as the Holocaust, like in Schindler’s List. But generally those are done with respect towards the victims, to the dead that did not deserve to die. Not something glorifying their murderers.
Some would argue that showing them as homosexual men would be to humiliate their memory, thus reducing them to a pitiful pile of rubble. I call bullshit. Because according to the Nazis, homosexuals weren’t men at all. They were … disgusting.
Suprema lex salus populi!
Communal welfare before personal welfare!
Those who are considering love between men or between women are our enemies. Anything that emasculates our people and that makes us fair game for our enemies we reject, because we know that life is a struggle and that it is insanity to believe that all human beings will one day embrace each other as brothers. Natural history teaches us a different lesson. Might makes right. And the stronger will always prevail against the weaker. Today we are the weaker. Let us make sure that we will become the stronger again! This we can do only if we exercise moral restraint. Therefore we reject all immorality, especially love between men, because it deprives us of our last chance to free our people from the chains of slavery which are keeping it fettered today.
That’s the official party line of the National Socialist Party. As in, the Nazi party. And in my opinion, glorifying them, their uniform, their … whatever, is absolutely appalling. It’s disrespectful to those that died, and to those who gave everything they could to stop the murder and torture and rape and war perpetrated by them.
The Nazis weren’t gay. Or, some of the ranking elite may have been, but it was secret, hidden, never to be spoken of around anybody. To do so would have been a death sentence. It was the official line that gay men were … not men, to be eliminated, rejected, “cured.”
I have so much more to say but I’m not sure how to say it right now. It’s still very new being on “this side” instead of “an ally,” and I’ve got so much to learn. But I don’t think I could have just stayed silent about this. It was offensive. Just utterly offensive, and I’m also not sure how to deal with the people… the gay and bi people that I know who are saying it’s an amazing video! I just… don’t get it. ugh. Still, comments, feedback, whatever, please let me know.
Mor Aduial: Dark Evening 