"Free" West Germany kept this law on the books until well after reunification, communist East Germany had repealed it in 1950https://twitter.com/morganmpage/status/836376703068962816 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Can't blame it on "That was the way back then" either, in pre-Nazi Weimar Germany there'd been loud movements to repeal 175
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Keeping it was a specific choice made by the postwar conservative government as part of their whole "return to normalcy" deal
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Like here's some cold water for all the
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Replying to @arthur_affect
A ton of the work the Nazis did to move the window stuck. The books they'd burned of what we'd now call queer/trans theory stayed burnt
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Replying to @arthur_affect
It is deeply fucked up that the Cold War + a v desperate desire for "normalcy" made the Christian Democrats the leading postwar party
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I.e. the party of "regular", "normal", religious folks who couldn't possibly be blamed for what the Nazis did
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The SDP -- the party that had primarily opposed the Nazis, been purged by the Nazis, killed by the Nazis -- got to stay in the wilderness
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This, btw, is the problem with "Well George W. Bush now looks pretty good doesn't he"
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Replying to @Yourpetcat
Because the concept of what is acceptable in society has been shifted (toward fascism), George W. has become more acceptable.
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