re: #220 Sergey Romanov

It’d certainly be hard to get reliable on data on the best way to reduce bigotry and increase support for rights— especially while preserving the privacy of the voting booth.

But I think the situation of Jews in Germany and gays in the US is distinctly different. Yes, in both cases, you have bigots arrayed against them and cynical politicians using that bigotry for political power. But I think a lot of ordinary people’s phobia of gays really is based in ignorance. Jews in Germany, on the other hand, were attacked highly from a point of resentment— that Jews were exploiting the Germans economically and that Jewish success was on the backs of Christian Germans.

There is a small amount of that in the whole “Gay hollywood agenda” thing in the US, but I think the difference a substantial one. The persecution of the Jews in Germany included a lot of prohibitions against holding particular jobs, for example.