Spammy Snarker L.J.Can people stop invoking Martin Luther positively as though he weren't a virulent antisemite (yes, even for "his times" so get out of my face with that excuse) who called for synagogues to be burned and Jewish homes to be razed, rabbis to be executed and Jewish people to be pressed into forced labor or expelled?
Like people say they're horrified by what the Nazis did (and let's be clear it wasn't just them, this was throughout the history of Europe), but when it comes to the dude who called for those VERY SAME THINGS it's all 95 Theses and fight the power uwu
kiki (extremely offline)@ljwrites he also saw disability as a product of sin and so deserving of punishment/'cleansing'
his radicalism was towards a fairly horrible outcome
@kiki Wow, these bigotries always come clustered together huh 😬
@ljwrites and so often around the church 
apparently he went so far as to call for a child 'possessed by a demon' to be killed, which is an interesting note in terms of his place in the narrative of the enlightenment vs European perceptions of human sacrifice in other parts of the world