Quote Originally Posted by Allegor View Post
Considering that being lgbt+ at the time was way more taboo than it is nowadays, one could argue it lowkey was a targeted genocide (through negligence) - "all the nasty gays are infecting each other and dying, good riddance"
You could make a good argument for that, yeah. When I think targeted genocide I think of actually pulling the lever, but refusing to do anything isn't much different. Saddest part is that it's not even an outlier in terms of the evil shit that's been done to marginalized people in this country. The way indigenous Americans have been treated, for example, clocks in as one of the worst genocides in human history in raw numbers alone.