Re: Policing and Pride Communities

Many of the political ideas here strike me as similar to suggesting that the German Jews in, say, 1939, should have taken their bricks and Molotov cocktails and gone to the barricades. With little sympathy from the non-Jewish population and the brutality of the Nazi state, it would have been completely suicidal. (I realize things turned out badly anyway, but from where they stood at the time it would have been a terrible choice).

Actually, it would have been an excellent choice.

If Germany had had a substantial body of sabotteurs inside, it may not have gone to war. And if it still had, Churchill would have had the fifth column he lacked, something which seriosly delayed all chances to take the fight back to the continent until Hitler decided to schedule a visit to the Red Square in two months time.

Overall, less people would have died, and specifically less Jews would have died.

And Jews in Antiquity understood this. Until Hadrian PTSD'ed them. No Hitler without Hadrian.