Remember the Pink Star: Traditionalist Worker Party, Part I

Part I of my digest of the “Traditionalist Worker Party”— an American hate group that uses super slick propaganda and high-pitched dog whistles— focuses on this party’s antigay theme, captured in this beguiling “plank”:

2.5 TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE

The definition of marriage is to be determined by clergy and local tradition. No community is to be forced to accept another community’s definition of marriage. Priests and pastors, not activist judges and federal politicians, will be empowered to define and defend the institution of marriage.

The more sinister side of the party’s plank is revealed in the party’s poster (below), featuring an Aryanesque image of a reproductively young white man and white woman in a romantic embrace—all the better to add to the pure “folk” through white procreation.

This is reminiscent of Hitler’s sublimated war against gays and lesbians, who suffered the same fate as Jews. The main difference in treatment was the color of the star applied to these groups designated for extermination—yellow for Jews, pink for gays and lesbians.