OUTINPERTH

The Anti-Defamation Commission, a group dedicated to fighting hatred in all its forms, has voiced concern about the growing demonisation of the LGBTI community and use of terms invoking comparisons to the Nazi party.

The Commission’s chairman, Dr Dvir Abramovich, shared his concerns after OUTinPerth highlighted comments made by One Nation candidate Michelle Meyers. Meyers had suggested in 2016 that the LGBTI community garnered support for marriage equality by use of a Nazi styled covert mind control program.

“I am increasingly concerned about the growing demonisation of the LGBTI community, and the outrageous claims by Michelle Meyers are profoundly insensitive and inappropriate.” Dr Abramovich said.

“No matter how strongly one opposes gay marriage, invoking Nazi terminology and analogies to demean those who advocate for its legalisation has no place in civil discourse.

“I would remind Ms Meyers that gay and lesbian people were targeted and brutally murdered by Hitler’s evil regime, as part of its plan to systematically exterminate the Jewish people and others.

“Her statements do a great disservice to the historical truth, trivialize the Holocaust and are an insult to the memory of the victims and the survivors. We hope Ms Meyers will reconsider her words in the future and will stop invoking such comparisons so as to make her case.” Dr Abramovich concluded.

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