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“If I hear ‘not allowed’ much oftener,” said Sam, “I’m going to get angry.” -- J.R.R. Tolkien, from Lord of the Rings

Monday, September 24, 2018

Hint: Hitler Is Not a Role Model

And neither is Trump:

Homosexual men are being tortured with electric shocks and beaten to death in concentration camps in Chechnya. This is the first concentration camp for homosexuals since Hitler's camps in 1930s.

Reports have emerged that 100 gay men were detained and three killed in these camps last week. Novaya Gazeta, a Russian newspaper known for its critical and investigative coverage of Russian politics and social affairs, said that several camps have been set up in Chechnya where gay men have been forced to promise to leave the republic.

The report in Novaya Gazeta said that those arrested include well-known local television personalities and religious figures.

President Ramzan Kadyrov, a key ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, allegedly ordered the clampdown and is known to have previously encouraged extrajudicial killings of homosexual men as an alternative to law enforcement.

At least the children in Trump's camps aren't being tortured. That we know of.

Of course, this is a time-honored technique that we see being utilized by all sorts of people -- neo-Nazis, white supremacists, conservative talk-show hosts, evangelical "Christians" -- pick a minority and go after them without let-up. It's good for reinforcing your position, not to mention raising money.

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