• SovereignState
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    1 year ago

    Said it before but this is one issue where my “cultural relativism” falls flat, especially when it comes to ostensibly communist and revolutionary nationalist movements. You aren’t discarding an imposed Western cultural hegemony by embracing homophobia and transphobia, you’re only further submitting your populace to that insidious disease spread by homophobic britbongs and other wEsTeRn culture-spreaders. That isn’t to say Russia was ever an LGBT paradise, but that homophobia there, like nigh everywhere, was first pursued as a systematic force by kings and leaders pursuing intellectual and cultural “westernization”, colonizing their minds against a perceived other. All over Asia it was spearheaded by westernizers (comprador and colonial), all throughout south America it was spearheaded by Catholic imperialists, throughout Africa by imperialists and colonizers, on and on and on. You are not anti-imperialist for opposing the rights of people who have existed since time immemorial for simply existing as they are, you’re falling directly into the colonizer trap, where they will continue to weaponize homonationalist talking points and “Human Rights” NGOs against you while you’re busy oppressing your own people. Homophobia and transphobia are not foundational tenets of national liberation, they are admittances of defeat to western mind-colonization.

    • @GloriousDoubleK
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      1 year ago

      Yeah. I get your point and Id ask how it seem strange that homophobic Ukrainian nationalists are most likely the ones killing Russian soldiers. 🤷‍♂️ Sooooo… Does it not stand that there is something about the queer question that isnt universally western if “based” god fearing ukrainian nationalists are actually killing Russians?

      Your post is refreshing.