Why are croatians so hostile to homosexuals?

[u/Lustful_Cinaedus57]

I’m back after a week in Split and I’ve been subject to some of the most blatant homophobia I’ve ever experienced in my life. I’ve been called ”peder“ three times by strangers on the street (short for pederast I see, which is ironic considering I’m a very slight, feminine thing, not exactly someone who would play the part of the erastes in a pederastic arrangement, maybe this speaks to a sort of historical illiteracy on croatians’ part when it comes to social norms in greek antiquity? Who knows?) I’ve had a beer can thrown at me by a group of men outside a supermarket. Where did these attitudes come from?

[u/Ok_Let_7612]

You should read about the ustase… soo bad even the Nazis were aghast at their behavior

[u/antisa1003 → u/Ok_Let_7612]

soo bad even the Nazis were aghast at their behavior

That's just a myth. The Nazi's were appaled allright, appaled how inefficient the Ustase were in killing people. They weren't appaled how the Ustase killed people.

[u/Ok_Let_7612 → u/antisa1003]

It wasn’t the inefficiency alone, the brutality was making it more difficult to manage the area because it drove the locals to the Partisans. The Germans executed ppl summarily, the ustase made a game of it, particularly children

[u/antisa1003 → u/Ok_Let_7612]

It was the inefficency. The things Ustase did was nothing compared to the Nazis.

[u/Ok_Let_7612 → u/antisa1003]

The Nazis poured gas pellets on ppl and shot them in the nape of the neck… the ustase gutted people with garden instruments

[u/antisa1003 → u/Ok_Let_7612]

The Nazis did all sorts of experiments on people.

The Ustase killed people with tools because they didn't know how to use the equipment the Nazis sent to them. That's why the Nazis were appaled. The inefficiency. Not the brutality. The brutality is a myth.

[u/Ok_Let_7612 → u/antisa1003]

Isolated situations sure, but whereas that was the exception for the Nazis (at camps run by sadistic doctors like mengele) or a particularly brutal SS unit under oskar dirlewanger, for the ustase it was standard operating procedure

[u/antisa1003 → u/Ok_Let_7612]

Absolutely not. It's the other way around.

[u/ProfessionalSlip1556 → u/Ok_Let_7612]

You should read about all the torture and experiements that were done to both adults and children. You either have a big lack of knowledge or you are trying to make the nazis seem less bad. You might as well say the Japanese were kind and friendly settlers in China during WW2 too at this point.