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@lesbians Colette was a French #lesbian author. She would be 153 years old today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colette
Please refrain from posting people with such bigoted pasts
I appreciate the concern, but I think there’s a misunderstanding of what I'm doing. I've been posting historical lesbian figures from across the globe. Including someone like Colette isn't an endorsement of their choices; it’s a refusal to sanitize the history of how queer women navigated a world that often persecuted them. If we only record the 'perfect' lives, we’re not doing history—we’re doing PR. I’d hope the community can handle the complexity of our actual past.
just an aside, but history is always going to be opinionated and you're making choices about how it is presented; I suggest reading Politics of History by Howard Zinn for expansion of this point.
As already mentioned, part of the problem is that you do nothing to disclaim or contextualize your post, which makes it easy to confuse your post as either neutral or supportive of the figure's Nazism.
We shouldn't be neutral about Nazism, and lesbians least of all should be, considering we were in the camps too.
And you have not properly engaged with that discussion in these posts, only been called out for posting Nazis alongside leftists with no differentiation. At the very least have a disclaimer and discussion about it in the body of your post. It makes me uncomfortable, and it has certainly made other people uncomfortable.
I'm sorry you're feeling uncomfortable, but I hope you understand that I have no control over your feelings.
She probably shouldn't have written antisemitic slur laden drivel for pro nazi newspapers but I guess we all gotta get through occupation somehow