• Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    LGBT and communists were attacked at around the same time based on my knowledge of events, but is it really a surprise that the LGBT would be excluded from recognition based on the dominate cultures of the time?

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      8 months ago

      is it really a surprise that the LGBT would be excluded from recognition based on the dominate cultures of the time?

      I don’t know what this is supposed to mean

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        8 months ago

        The poem in question was by Martin Niemöller, who was a Lutheran pastor. It’s not surprising that he’d write LGBTQ+ people out.