Europe of Sovereign Nations will now face a process that could see it stripped of its status as a European political party, losing funding in the process. Far-right MEPs from other groups opposed the decision. #EuropeNews
But their party leader is a lesbian who thinks her party’s official stance on homosexuality is “just politics” and doesn’t effect her personally (because she lives in Switzerland, of course)
So that means they can’t be fascists, right? …right?
Emmanuel Rohm was the leader of the Brownshirts during Hitler’s rise to power and engaged in almost exclusively homosexual relationships while publicly denouncing homosexuality
But their party leader is a lesbian who thinks her party’s official stance on homosexuality is “just politics” and doesn’t effect her personally (because she lives in Switzerland, of course)
So that means they can’t be fascists, right? …right?
Emmanuel Rohm was the leader of the Brownshirts during Hitler’s rise to power and engaged in almost exclusively homosexual relationships while publicly denouncing homosexuality
As were a great many in the party at the time.
yup. right wing politics in many ways is rooted in the conception of the self as special, and worthy of explicit privilege based on that