As a gay man who habitually wore an inverted pink triangle on my clothing for nearly a decade in the 1990s to protest American lack of concern for people with AIDS, I can only chime in to agree.

For those who don't know, gay and trans people in the Nazi death camps were made to wear pink triangles.

Unlike other victims of the death camps, gay and trans people were not generally liberated by American and British forces. (The French and Soviets did a little better, but they tended to mistreat queer death-camp residents too.) Many were transferred directly to German prisons to serve out criminal sentences.

And, of course, the impulse to do this was Christian, and some things don't change. I just wrote an article about how conservative Christians in Texas gathered to heckle and scream profanities at queer people yesterday in a suburb of Houston, in front of a church that affirms transgender people.

So I'm at a loss to understand how how Christians in the U.S. and Europe see themselves as persecuted or pretend they were victims of the Nazis.

To the real victims of the Nazis, that idea is absurd and insulting.

And right now in the united states, obviously, the reality is that the persecutors are Christians. If you want to meet somebody who's going to hate on immigrants and queer people and poor people, look for Christians.

You can count on them to be doing their level best to stomp on people they don't like.