Yellow, Orange and red represent places where it is illegal to be gay with orange and red being places where being gay is punishable by death. In the holocaust, gay people were not just loathed by the Nazis, but also loathed by other groups who were also being persecuted and murdered. When other groups were freed from the concentration camps, gay people were often sent from the camps to prisons due to their “liberators” still considering them to be criminals.
Protesting racism wasn’t criminalized. The issue was that the legal means to protest racism weren’t very effective. So, people intentionally broke certain laws to draw attention to the struggle. The overreaction by the police to those laws being broken drew attention and gained sympathy for the protesters.
It should be “resisting” or something. “Protesting” is more specific.
Resisting racism was allowed too. What wasn’t allowed was say sitting in the wrong place on the bus.
Distinction without a difference, functionally speaking.
This is a discussion I have in my ethics classes. I like to use Kohlberg’s Model of moral development (one of many options) as the framework for the discussion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kohlberg's_stages_of_moral_development
Under than model, all too many people (upwards of 40% in one study) get stuck at level 4, which means they see the law as the moral system. Dangerous thinking that’s often how bullies, political evils, and Authoritarians gain power over the public. Once they can control the laws, those people will just follow along because they can’t even envision how challenging the law for humanity’s well-being is even possible.
