I Feel Gay Today

An aphorism I can´t get of my mind:

"It was a picture of a Gay Nineties couple on a bicycle built for two. Billy looked at that picture now, and tried to think something about the couple. Nothing came to him. There didn´t seem to be anything to thing about those two people."

Wasn´t gay intolerance one of the big factors why WWII unfolded? Once again, Vonnegut continues mocking traits from the time period, and this maxim is deemed important.

I tend to feel awed by the magnitude of WWII, and would even have the nerve to compare Hitler with a madman. I dare anyone to explain how someone decides to exterminate a high percentage of Europe´s population to try to achieve the perfect race, the Aryans.

How did this maniac achieve this amount of followers? He used words. They are the poison employed by leaders to influence their public. I refer to them as poison because they´re always able to modify the listener´s thoughts, whether in a negative or positive way. A clear example is Hitler´s Salzburg speech against Jews in 1920:

"Jewish contamination will not subside, this poisoning of the nation will not end, until the carrier himself, the Jew, has been banished from our midst."

People became both fearful and discriminational towards this culture, but it wasn´t only the Jews he reached out to annihilate, between the prosectuted were Jehovah´s Witnesses, the mentally ill, homosexuals, Roma peoples, and any other race that wasn´t considered pure. Would you have anything to say about the picture?