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'More in common with the Taliban': Outrage erupts over state GOP's anti-Pride vitriol (www.rawstory.com)

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The Colorado Republican Party wants all Gay Pride rainbow flags to burn to ash, according to a new report.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

isn't exactly the talking point you want it to be.

It is. The history of the country changed because of what they did. It was an historical event

but it's like saying

Absolutely not. Taliban was fighting a foreing invasor, Hitler commited genocide, among many other things. If you grossly look at the casualities there, you could argue that the USA genocided afghan people. Tbh this is stretch you did really looks like bad faith, overlooked reality for the sake of argument

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm not saying I think you're endorsing the Taliban; I'm saying that people won't read that closely into what you're saying and THINK you are.

And even though the Taliban aren't committing genocide (which I never said they were, I should've been clearer that the Hitler example was hyperbole for the sake of making a point), the human rights violations their government is committing are reprehensible. That's why it's an issue to say "they were just protecting their homeland": they kicked foreign invaders off their land to treat their own citizens just as poorly (if in different ways). It looks like you're taking up for a group that's pretty worthy of villainization.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

a group that's pretty worthy of villainization.

Afghanistan was destroyed and made into a giant papoula plantation in order to supply the heroin that goes to the USA. Why would you villanize the group that fought against that? Only in a fantasy world a progressive pro lgbtqi+ woman rights group could emerge in a country like Afghanistan during war. I do understand the various problems that taliban have, but they are the real ppl fighting to free their country, not the ideal ppl we imagine they could be