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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?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/26/the-german-experiment-that-placed-foster-children-with-pedophiles

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[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

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.

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