So last evening an ex-bf of mine made a really awful Holocaust joke on Facebook. In the comments that followed one of our mutual friends brought up the homosexual experience during and after the war citing the chemical castration of Alan Turing. While his facts were sound he ended it this way, "So yeah, just saying, Jews ain't the only victims... and were treated BETTER than "we" were."
I found this shocking and started reaching out to some of my other friends to see if this is a case of one man being provocative or if this view was widely held. It seems that among many of my self-identified progressive gay acquaintances this has become normal. Am I being radical in thinking that treating such a nightmarish period of history as a competition over which group was the greatest victim is unhelpful to everyone involved? Or was my former history teacher closer to the mark when he called it a new form of Holocaust denial?
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