> they were sincerely meant to be for people's own good
That is an incredibly offensive bastardization of history.
That is an incredibly offensive bastardization of history.
People frequently do bad things to people that they think are the right thing and that they still know are not “for [the victim’s] own good”. For example, removing an entire group of people from society is often presented as “for the good of everyone else”.
This is an incredibly important distinction when talking about the horrific ways gay people have been treated in the past couple centuries.
If that was not enough to explain why what you said was incredibly inaccurate and toes the line of fascist propaganda, I would be happy to have an amicable discussion with you one on one - as comment threads on HN only go so deep.