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[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I really want to like Traore', but the fact that he seems to be vehemently homophobic, disgusts me.

I'm open to being proven wrong, and I'm not saying that he doesn't deserve critical support at a time like this, but as a fellow BIPOC and a LGBT comrade, it angers me that Traore' is even considering or not immediately striking down this series of policies that will punish LGBT people.

I'm in no way saying that he himself is solely responsible for it, and I understand that MAYBE it's a luxury to live in the first world and criticize national liberation/socialist movements, leaders, and groups, but it's fucking disgusting that he seems to be homophobic, when Thomas Sankara would probably have told him off for it, who Traore' claims to admire.

I'm not trying to be a douchebag, and I hate qualifying my statement so much, but JFC, he is sooo close to getting it right. I believe in ruthless criticism of all things. I'm concerned about the LGBT people and comrades who could be hurt or imprisoned over this, nor am I saying that the capitalist imperialist fascist west should be let off the hook for their centuries of homophobia or their dangling of LGBT rights over the heads of African peoples, but fucking hell.

I'm not expecting Traore' to be perfect, and maybe he hasn't given this comparatively much thought, given he has a country to run, or maybe this is more on the socially fascist inner circle or interlopers that know nothing but the white supremacist colonial hatred drilled into their heads for a long time, but I don't find this to be rational or excusable.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

I hate the realpolitik of this perspective but BF from what I know is still pretty socially conservative. There was a study done a while ago there saying something like only 8% of people would "accept a homosexual as a neighbour". Regardless of what Traore thinks it may just not be politically feasible for him to retain support from broad swathes of his coalition if he comes out swinging for LGBT rights in BF, and if his mandate collapses or his allies turn against him shit could get bad for him pretty fast.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

I get the political angle, but I at least feel like he should just veto or refuse to sign, or say, "we have more important problems."

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Well it's not done until it is, so we will have to see.

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