Posted on 03/06/2023 8:00:39 AM PST by Salman
Late one night on the cusp of the 20th century, Magnus Hirschfeld, a young doctor, found a soldier on the doorstep of his practice in Germany. Distraught and agitated, the man had come to confess himself an Urning—a word used to refer to homosexual men. It explained the cover of darkness; to speak of such things was dangerous business. The infamous “Paragraph 175” in the German criminal code made homosexuality illegal; a man so accused could be stripped of his ranks and titles and thrown in jail.
Hirschfeld understood the soldier’s plight—he was himself both homosexual and Jewish—and did his best to comfort his patient. But the soldier had already made up his mind. It was the eve of his wedding, an event he could not face. Shortly after, he shot himself.
The soldier bequeathed his private papers to Hirschfeld, along with a letter: “The thought that you could contribute to [a future] when the German fatherland will think of us in more just terms,” he wrote, “sweetens the hour of death.” Hirschfeld would be forever haunted by this needless loss; the soldier had called himself a “curse,” fit only to die, because the expectations of heterosexual norms, reinforced by marriage and law, made no room for his kind. These heartbreaking stories, Hirschfeld wrote in The Sexual History of the World War, “bring before us the whole tragedy [in Germany]; what fatherland did they have, and for what freedom were they fighting?” In the aftermath of this lonely death, Hirschfeld left his medical practice and began a crusade for justice that would alter the course of queer history.
...
(Excerpt) Read more at scientificamerican.com ...
Remember when Scientific American lived up to its name (before Martin Gardner retired)? Yes I'm that old.
The "victims" now claim the right to destroy normals and rule over them.
Indeed.
Hirschfeld understood the soldier’s plight—he was himself both homosexual and Jewish
and haven’t they saturated the government, the churches, universities, and more!!
The irony is homosexuality and gender dysphoria are 2 different conditions and some homosexuals want nothing to do with the trannies.
I thought this would be about the clinic and hospital in Trinidad Colorado.
Same with National Geographic. It was a legitimate anthropological authority until about 10 years ago. And then the trannies captured it.
Modern historians are given a platform when they conveniently find a “history” that supports modernly woke policies.
The NAZIs certainly did burn books and kill certain categories of sexually deviants, but the high-ranking NAZIs were sexual deviants also.
And Germany was known as the most tolerant nation in Europe regarding homosexuality when the NAZIs rose to power. Some historians would have us believe nazism was a backlash to this trend, but that would not explain the high rates of sexual perversion among the NAZI ranks at the officer level.
Sexual perversion enables the kind of dehumanization and brutality that the NAZIs employed.
It prevented any of them from rising up against him because the king had to be a man.
If you are referring to the bare-breasted African and Polynesian women occasionally seen on the cover and elsewhere from the 1890s until recently, a case could be made that the Geographic was dutifully responding to complaints by the magazine's growing number of feminist subscribers.
Unfortunately, a less visual but more politically motivated change occurred in the early 1980s which ended my subscription and I would guess many thousands of others.
It was when the National Geographic essentially signed on to the Naderites, the Earth Firsters and "the earth is getting over-populated and we need to do something about it" fear-mongers' causes. Instead of a magazine full of beautiful photos and quotable descriptions and interviews, we got oil spills, dried-up forests and other ugliness which could, by some creative editing, be attributed to Big Oil, Big Business or capitalist greed. And the proposed solution, invariably, would entail getting the government to do something about it, at great expense.
IMHO, both National Geographic and Scientific American became "woke" before that word was invented. Taken over by the lefties as the old-timers retired to greener pastures. Hey, there were even Admirals on the BoD of National Geographic in the old days.
I sure do!
Nearly 20 years of mags tossed into the trash after I finally could stand no more.
Rennie and THIS article was the straw...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/15-answers-to-creationist/
Yup.
I’ve around 50 hears worth of those magazines sitting in double bookshelf cabinets.
I almost didn’t renew my membership this year.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.