Vocabulary time! I want to introduce you to two Nazi terms, Jugendverführer and Jugendverderber
Vocabulary time! I want to introduce you to two Nazi terms, Jugendverführer and Jugendverderber: “seducer” and “corrupter” of youth (see: “groomer”). These stereotypes depicted a figure who lured young people into the “epidemic” of Weimer queer and trans communities. They were almost never used to describe actual groomers.Conflating queer/trans with pedophilia helped Nazis rally support for their genocidal policies. In 1935, they changed existing German anti-sodomy law to make it illegal to even “act” queer (whatever that’s supposed to mean). It was all in the name of protecting (“aryan”) children.After passing these new laws, Nazis invalidated trans peoples’ gender recognition cards. They began arresting sex workers and drag queens. By 1936, they were rounding them up en masse for labor camps. Again, this terror campaign was in the name of stopping supposed “Jugendverderber.”We still have time to combat these anti-queer policies and beliefs. Even if it seems unbearable, knowing they would love to end us, we must continue to fight back. Groomer discourse has a deadly historical grounding we must pay more attention to while speaking out against it. -- source link
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