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NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 20:49
Council member Mitchell Boers of the VVD Hengelo says he will file a complaint against the local Forum for Democracy leader Brian Geertshuis because of a tweet he posted. Last Sunday, the FVD party chairman in Hengelo posted a photo showing rainbow flags and flags with swastikas in Nazi Germany next to each other. With the image he placed the text ’80 years later’ and the hashtags ‘ideology’ and ‘in your face‘.
In a response to the NOS, Boers says that Geertshuis often posts things that he thinks are over the line. “Normally I try to understand why he posts certain things, or I talk to him about it. But this time he crossed the line. The historical comparison makes no sense,” he responds.
Boers, himself a homosexual, says he was touched by the tweet: “Normally I want to have the conversation. I can approach it politically, but this affects me, also as a citizen. That is why I will file a personal report tomorrow. I also told my party that I do not want to make it political.”
‘Sharp, but striking’
Geertshuis has since removed the tweet, but says to the regional newspaper Tubantia behind the message. He calls the comparison “sharp, but striking”.
“I am making a comparison. That is not the same as being equal to each other. I have no aversion to homosexuals. I also do not deny the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime, including against homosexuals. What matters to me is the coercive nature of the LGBTI ideology. And you cannot criticize it. You are not taken away, as with the Nazis, but you are canceled on social media.”
The fact that he did delete the tweet, according to the Fvd’er, had to do with the many negative reactions to the message. “I got so much hate over me that I thought: I don’t want to go into the night like that.”
2023-07-24 18:49:18
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