• @fruityloop
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    111 year ago

    Homophobia isn’t “values” or should be respected, very great argument from this asshole. However, I don’t think what this journalist? did is gonna help at all whether it was a genuine gesture or not. The reactionaries are just gonna get worse because they feel “threatened” by this kind of stuff which only makes it worse for local lgbt people. I can’t really think of any solution to this mess.

    • @cfgaussian
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      1 year ago

      I can think of one solution which is that these despotic gulf monarchies that are all puppets of the US should be toppled and the region united under a popular, pan-arab nationalist government. Initially it will also have reactionary positions on cultural issues since that is where the population is currently at, but if left to develop in peace without external threats, sanctions or interference, over time they will have their own organically home-grown LGBT movements.

      Unfortunately at the moment there exists an association in a lot of places in the world of LGBT activism/normalization with imperialist meddling. The concept of human rights has been so thoroughly abused for regime change purposes that it has actually set back the progress that we could have had by now on these issues. The more the imperialists use these issues as a cudgel against their enemies the harder it becomes for genuine progressive forces to gain traction.

      This is yet another example of how imperialism is the primary impediment to all revolutionary and progressive forces. It is not just the biggest obstacle in the way of socialist revolution, national independence and decolonization, and not just the most severe threat to existing socialist societies, it is also the greatest hindrance to social progress and the most solid pillar propping up reactionary forces everywhere. That is why fighting imperialism must be the number one priority.

      • Neptium
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        61 year ago

        I have nothing much to add because you explained it so succinctly already.

        But I would like to reiterate that this isn’t just a mere opinion. It is an objective fact of reality that a lot of global south revolutionaries have concluded as well.

        If you are truly a communist and if you truly believe in the people, then you need to trust the people in countries where you have no impact, to carry forward social progress. Instead of sitting in a chauvinistic, nihilistic and idealistic bubble that thinks culture is static and that an external force is required to ‘civilize’ the Global South, have patience and actually trust the people living in those societies - they know better than virtue-signalling westerners.