Oh boy I thought I would cool it with the controversial LGBT stuff on this site but my country was pulled into the Western culture war this time (making my blood boil as per usual).
The British band The 1975 decided to do a stunt where 2 male band members kissed on stage. Which was proceeded by a rant and behaviours that was very liberal, only could be done by someone who grew up in a hyper-capitalist and alienated society in which individualism festers like a plague.
Needless to say, but this sort of “activism” doesn’t work. That’s obvious enough.
Then the liberals that consume too much American media (or lives in America) comes out of the woodwork bashing the government for over-exaggerating, and/or praising this pathetic attempt at lecturing the barbarians for their bad values. Liberals really showcase remarkable cynicism and hatred of the masses.
The sheer chauvinism in which you come into another country as a guest to perform and then lambast government policy in which you yourself are not affected by and in which you agreed to beforehand, while at the same time breaking many social norms - well that takes the cake.
Thank you for giving right-wingers ammo to further politicize and police “LGBT” communities in this country - making it worse for everyone here by enflaming the already vicious identity politics prevalent here (referring to the local identity politics - not commenting on the American one).
Good job, colonizer. I see that the Brits still think that anyone cares about what they have to say.
The coverage by the Rolling Stone and The Independent is as chauvinistic as ever. I’d prefer it if you just called us primatives directly instead of this whole fake concern for human rights.
Atleast Reuters had the decency to mention that:
Friday’s incident sparked uproar on Malaysian social media, including among some members of the LGBT community, who accused Healy of “performative activism” and said his action could expose the community to more stigma and discrimination.
but in typical fashion doesn’t mention that such behaviours, even if advocating for something the majority of the people agree, is not acceptable. It’s a concert, not a political debate. Narcissistic behaviour and dysfunctional interpersonal skills (as determined by our culture and society at large) isn’t something that should be promoted. Furthermore, this isn’t even mentioning colonial history and ongoing imperialism.
Liberals needs to be sent into re-education camps for decades to deworm their minds from their terminal brain disease.
Alhamdullilah that most people here don’t have it and recognised the chauvinism for what it is. (All non-english and many English replies on this tweet for example.)
I completely agree with you. The more that the West tries to pressure, bully and shame global south countries into adopting their values the more pushback and resistance they will encounter, and the more they will damage the image of the cause they are pretending to advance, even in cases when the cause itself is a positive one as is the case with this one. The problem is that the West does NOT care about these causes it claims to champion, it does NOT care about LGBT+ people as we can clearly see by what has been happening in the US and UK and how much the rights and even existence of LGBT+ people are increasingly coming under threat. For Britain aka “TERF island” of all places to attempt to lecture others on this is the height of hypocrisy. All they want to do is weaponize these issues to destabilize societies and to spread their tentacles of influence via various NGOs into global south countries, and they don’t give a damn if in the process of doing this their “rainbow imperialism” ends up actually having the opposite effect from what they claim to intend, namely of reinforcing reactionary prejudices as cultural progressivism becomes unfortunately associated in the minds of most people in developing nations with western imposition, arrogance, pretenses of moral and cultural superiority, and imperialism. This then just places the members of these marginalized communities at even greater risk, but of course the West doesn’t care about this.
I personally believe that this is intentional - it was never ever about rights. Making lives worst in Third World countries allows continuous migrant flows into the metropole, in addition to the other effects of destabilization you mention.