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the forgotten 5 million
For example, some people daydream about acting like Robin Hood, and "stealing from the rich to give to the poor". But in the U.S. no one is put in jail for '''advocating''' such a redistribution of wealth. They would be jailed if they actually '''stole''' something, though. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 15:39, 10 November 2008 (EST)
For example, some people daydream about acting like Robin Hood, and "stealing from the rich to give to the poor". But in the U.S. no one is put in jail for '''advocating''' such a redistribution of wealth. They would be jailed if they actually '''stole''' something, though. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 15:39, 10 November 2008 (EST)
:If you read [http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/hsx/] (from the Holocaust Museum) more carefully, you'll see that while less than 15,000 men were placed in concentration camps just for being gay, "approximately 50,000 served prison terms as convicted homosexuals". Again, this is a relatively small part of the overall story of the Nazis, but it certainly isn't a matter of the gay community trying to ride the Jewish community's "sympathy coattails". Google "the forgotten Five Million" and you'll find many good sites that talk about some of the smaller groups targeted by the Nazis. Individually, each group was small, but taken together, nearly half of all Holocaust victims (approx. 5m out of approx. 11m) were targeted for some trait other than Jewishness. [[User:Fishal|Fishal]] 08:19, 11 November 2008 (EST)