We have no problem with wanting to pay tribute to the many women who have helped to shape our history, but not every woman deserves to be celebrated.
The @OnThisDayShe account, which, according to their Twitter bio, is all about “putting women back into history, one day at a time” apparently missed that memo. Like, by about a million miles:
https://twitter.com/OnThisDayShe/status/1411943957072912389
Congratulations to Violette Morris for being a pioneer in the field of world-class lesbian athletes. Now perhaps @OnThisDayShe would like to discuss the reason she was killed by the French Resistance.
— Dr Eleanor Janega (@GoingMedieval) July 5, 2021
Ayo, do you want to explain why she was killed by the French resistance?
— 🚩Sarah ( General Secretary )🚩☭🍊 (@commieactivity) July 5, 2021
This is a puzzle . Why did the French Resistance kill her?
— Mary O'S (@threedisgraces) July 5, 2021
Who were the targets of the French Resistance? Think real hard on this one. https://t.co/al3zrIXSIY
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 5, 2021
Maybe y’all should have googled WHY she was killed by the French resistance before you wrote this celebratory post 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ https://t.co/9Rdp5UzxOZ
— Annika H Rothstein (@truthandfiction) July 5, 2021
Ya think?
I see you're just glossing over the reason why the Resistance targeted her. She attended the 1936 Olympics as a guest of honour of Hitler.
"Nazi officials believed they could turn Violette Morris into a spy – and they were right."https://t.co/RAzmAX5M6h
— Lucie (@ByrneLuc) July 5, 2021
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“She could report on what the French were doing,” Sebba says. “She understood the tank formations. She knew what the Germans needed to know.”
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So Morris returned to France after the Games and continued to correspond with the Nazis. She drove around the country, likely gathering information on the locations of French troops and the Maginot Line — the fortifications on France’s northeastern border.
After the Nazi invasion, Morris remained close to the Germans — though there’s some debate over her exact role. One French biography paints a grisly picture.
“There is very definitely an accusation that she became a Nazi torturer,” Sebba says. “She had the nickname, ‘The Hyena of the Gestapo,’ because apparently she derived so much sadistic pleasure from torturing people and extracting information.”
Welp, morals don’t get much looser than being a Nazi collaborator.
I don't know why this needs to be mentioned, but people sympathetic to and suspected of direct collaboration with real actual Nazis shouldn't be celebrated. pic.twitter.com/AzZ6kHWi9K
— 🏳️⚧️ Little Loki 🏳️🌈 (@inksingerr) July 5, 2021
We thought that went without saying.
Oh FFS
— Whores of Yore (@WhoresofYore) July 5, 2021
Whoops.
You left out the Nazi part but why quibble https://t.co/PENeavRDaJ
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) July 5, 2021
Okay sure she was a Nazi collaborator, but she was also a girl boss. https://t.co/95V3CBhgkJ
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) July 5, 2021
In which we are encouraged to celebrate the pioneering intersectionality of *checks notes* Nazi collaboratorshttps://t.co/JfcBLTuQrh
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) July 5, 2021
Hey…everyone deserves a moment in the sun!
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) July 5, 2021
Well, maybe not everyone.
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) July 5, 2021
issuing a correction on a previous post of mine, regarding “the Hyena of the Gestapo”. you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to her
— Dan (@AntonioSlamsci) July 5, 2021
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