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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 3 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 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