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In reply to the discussion: Pope Francis compares pushing gay agenda to ‘Hitler Youth’ indoctrination [View all]Zorra
(27,670 posts)institutionalized hatred for some harmless, innocent group of people.
Political leaders do the same thing. Like Francis, Putin is also currently using institutionalized hatred for LGBT and women as a vehicle for increasing his power, and the number of his followers, among the gullible ignorant. They are running out of groups they can successfully scapegoat for the cause of mass hate. Groups such as Jews (after all, after Hitler's insane failed adventure in exploiting mass sociopathy, using Jews as scapegoats will only get you so far these days; he used LGBT as well...there just weren't enough of us to mass murder in order to hold the crowd at the time), heretics, and black people, etc, whatever the flavor of the day. So now folks like Pope Francis are having to fall back on the two most hated innocent groups of human beings in the history of the world since the advent of the major patriarchal sky god religions to use as scapegoats in order to maintain their place, power, authority, and wealth:
Women, and LGBT. It is still A-OK with many to hate women and LGBT. The widespread hatred for women and LGBT that the patriarchal sky god religions have institutionalized in most existing societies is their ace in the hole.
The hate for LGBT and women that Francis is currently spreading at an alarming rate throughout the world is not just a random, fleeting phenomenon, it is right now being used enmasse (or is it in Mass?) around the world by various Right Wing religions and political leaders in order to once again rally the hateful faithful to the cause of legalized authoritarian oppression, destruction, misery, and death.
The phrase, "Never Again" is ever present; unless good people stop the current spread of RW hatred around the world, and I'm here to tell you, the fuckers will do it again, in some way of another, if they are not prevented from doing so. The "war to end all wars" never happens.
It doesn't matter that the women and LGBT are innocent, and harmless; using women and LGBT as scapegoats can always be relied on to maintain a substantial congregation of the hateful. It works the same in any country, or religion; all you have to do is tell the ignorant hateful that they are being threatened, and they will follow you to straight down the garden path to hell.
And when the destruction is finally over, there are always the same three words that the congregation of the hateful says to all the kind, incredulous people of the world, in order to justify the senseless carnage they helped inflict on the innocent...
"We didn't know."
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