Iran, Syria and other countries like them don’t have trans/gay rights, a lot of users on this group support them for being anti west, I know it’s awkward but what’s the deal? is it ignoring due to culture or being patient until the big devil is gone? I need to know to understand the logic since I’m confused
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nations that have backwards tendencies in their struggles against the West, as the backwardsness is a result of the exploitation imposed upon them by the imperialists.
An example of this tunisia that currently bans homosexual relations but it was legalized in 1850.
Thanks for the explanation sis, very coherent and answered more questions than I asked
Another case of this that I just thought of is here with different generation treatment of queer people and women, for example I only see new generation influenced by the west say stuff like “women should be in kitchen” while the generations not influenced by the west expect women to work, another example is that my own mother is not transphobic and she is very religious, her reasoning is that “they’re unfortunate and have time to repent” not very trans ally I know, but a different world compared to the “I would kill a trans person if I saw one” that I got from a generation influenced by the west.
With the west going on about “western values” while they represent such a danger to so many around the world, it’s also no wonder that many people are closed off against these issues as well. How many times do we hear about QT rights or women’s rights being used as an excuse to continue genocide or conduct regime change activities around the world?
Without the ever present danger that homonationalism and western feminism represent, these movements would have the freedom to make much more progress than they do now.
The west is known for using plots to destroy and exploit everything, this gives extreme paranoia when they even offer a cup of water.
The bottom line is whatever these countries and their peoples need to do to achieve a more egalitarian society, they will only be able to do it when western influences are lessed if not completely removed. Western intervention has always lead to a more reactionary society in every known case despite what “women under the Shah” reddit posters want you to believe.
USSR was decades ahead of the US in women’s rights. East Germany was better than West Germany in terms of LGBT and women rights. Not sure about Iran’s Socialist Party but they could have potentially made the country more egalitarian, but we will never find out because they were couped by the CIA.
