LGBT News Desmond Tutu Compares Ugandan Anti-Gay Bill To Nazi Germany

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The Nazi Germany comparison is always a biggie, but in this case, considering both the source and the subject matter, I think it was justified. (You don't get to "Godwin" Desmond Tutu!)

The proposed legislation would make Uganda a police state as oppressive toward gays as Nazi Germany was toward Jews and other groups deemed 'inferior', or apartheid South Africa and its treatment of black people. It would grant official state sanction to already widespread hatred and violence against LGBTQ people in Uganda.

 

Godwin's Law is actually completely misunderstood. It's a law of probability stating that the longer an online discussion goes on for, the greater the chance of a comparison to Nazis or Hitler, the odds slowly approaching 100%.

Somewhere along the line some idiots got the idea that any comparison to Nazis or Hitler, however accurate, valid, or legitimate, can automatically be dismissed off-hand merely by saying the word "Godwin".

But that's not what Godwin's Law means at all, so the dunces who say "Godwin" and thus say they 'won' the thread debate are actually the biggest losers.

Godwin's Law does not apply at all to Archbishop Desmond Tutu releasing a public statement that happens to compare the proposed Ugandan legislation to Nazi Germany.

 

Adolf Hitler took power in Germany in January of 1933. Nazi Germany did not start actually KILLING Jews (and other "inferior" peoples) en masse until 1942, after it had already invaded the Soviet Union, Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor, and World War II was in full swing. During that nine-year period, it took a campaign of relentless propaganda and incrementally harsher legislation and actions (The Nuremberg Laws, Kristallnacht, etc.) to eventually prepare the country to carry out full-fledged genocide. The Holocaust did not just happen overnight.

That's why any attempt by any country to systematically target a minority in any way should be compared directly to Nazism and be opposed vehemently, no matter how minor or "watered down" it might be made to appear, whether it be Russia's law against "promoting non-traditional orientations" or Uganda's "life imprisonment" bill, which I don't consider all that much watered down from the original "kill the gays" bill, as I am sure this legislation, having been signed into law, will lead directly to violence and killing of LGBTQ people in Uganda with state sanction.

 

Yeah what Museveni and Uganda have done directly parallels the most evil actions taken by Hitler and Nazi Germany. They are doing the same things that made Nazi Germany as evil as it was.

Anytime someone says "Godwin" or "reductio ad Hitlerum" in response to a valid, accurate, legitimate comparison to Nazi policies, it makes me want to scream!

 

Read my above post. Adolf Hitler took power in January 1933. Those factories of death weren't running until 1942. There was plenty of nasty shit that went on in Nazi Germany before the actual Holocaust that justifies legitimate comparison to Nazi Germany to recent laws passed in Uganda, Nigeria, Russia, etc. One act of persecution leads to another harsher act of persecution, and so on.