en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavende... You do not need to look at other countries to see the precedents of what is happening right now. These guys did it already, in living memory. The literal majority of the US Senate was already alive during the Lavender Scare. - ThreadSky

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pookleblinky.bsky.social • 26 days ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_Scare

You do not need to look at other countries to see the precedents of what is happening right now.

These guys did it already, in living memory.

The literal majority of the US Senate was already alive during the Lavender Scare.

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pookleblinky.bsky.social•26 days ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_10450

Time is a flat circle

pookleblinky.bsky.social•26 days ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Kameny

There are always people who refuse to disappear. Time is a flat circle

pookleblinky.bsky.social•26 days ago

By the way, that executive order wasn't rescinded til 1995, 42 years later.

cageyratfish.bsky.social•25 days ago

it wasn't *completely* repealed until 2017. "Don't ask, don't tell" was what replaced it (in military service) in 1995

missbeeswax.bsky.social•26 days ago

Fully repealed on President Obama's last day in office

I was looking for a link to the documentary The Lavender Scare (2017) when I found this page

https://archivesfoundation.org/newsletter/the-lavender-scare/

m00psy.bsky.social•26 days ago

chris.3dhog.com•4 days ago

Sure, but think of how old the Senate is. I think Washington crossed the Delaware on Mitch McConnell's back like Frogger.

deweyoxberg.bsky.social•25 days ago

Did not know about this and now I do. Thank you for the information share - learning!

courtneyinoh.bsky.social•4 days ago

Roy Cohn of course. Trump's mentor. Sigh.

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