chapotraphouse

Leftwing and progressive ideas are co-opted by liberals as the new version of the White Man's Burden. I think I first saw someone make that observation here on Hexbear and it's the perfect description. In the 1890s the US justified its behavior in Asia and Central and South America by "taking up the White Man's Burden" to "spread democracy and culture to the savages." It was the same attitude of "kill the Indian and you save the Christian."

Since 9/11 (and before...well, most of the States' existence), Americans have regurgitated this shit into a new form where they call Arabs "homophobic and sexist," while the US does the same bullshit at home. Is there really a difference between some chud shooting up a gay bar while police watch and police arresting a couple before executing them for being gay? What about the hundreds (or thousands, I haven't checked lately) of untested sexual assault kits needed to prosecute predators? Sexual assault in the US is legal by de facto because there's so much fuckery in the way of getting survivors justice.

Your pedantic legalist lib will point out that just because the laws were on the book in those states, you have to look at the case law about when the last time someone was prosecuted and whether a conviction would be actually upheld. WITHOUT APPLYING THAT SAME LENSE TO OTHER "BAD" COUNTRIES.

When you compare Iran versus Saudi Arabia, both have a lot of crimes punishable by death, but Iran does it sparingly (still not good) and Saudi Arabia goes wild executing hundreds every year.

Maybe I'm overemphasizing the issue, but I think developing a rhetorical solution to pink imperialism is one of the most important immaterial (as in "not industrial sabotage or something cool or actually useful") goals for anti-imperialists currently.

I don't fully know what makes the "x-ethnic group hates gays so let's purge them from the land" so compelling. For me it just triggers an error log.

• generalizing an entire population to be homophobic is straightforwardly bigoted in itself

• If you bomb any large enough quantity of civilians, you are bound to kill many gay people in your allegedly pro-gay crusade

• to my knowledge, there are no types of bombs that specifically spare the lives of gay people or their sympathizers, or any that specifically target homophobes

• even gay people who survive direct bombings will suffer as everyone else does from destroyed infrastructure that they depended on

• to the extent that things were already horrible for gay people in Gaza prior to October 2023, they were mostly a product of Gaza in general being horrible to live in because they were trapped in a giant concentration camp under israel's thumb

• israel itself is not even pro-gay enough to have legalized gay marriage, so it's silly to talk them up like they're crusading for gay rights when they can't even be bothered with basic shit like that domestically

• most of these dickheads invoking this talking point are straight and cisgendered, and would be fine watching every LGBT person in america being shoveled into a fucking furnace if they thought it was necessary to preserve their comfort (based on their reactions to the Dems showing complete disregard for Palestinians being brutalized and genocided, the concerns of arab and Muslim americans on Palestine, moving rightward on immigration, etc.)

If it weren't for that SC decision, I'm 10,000% convinced it still be illegal to be queer in half the country

It's funny how literally every single org, pundit, party and news outlet that tells me how much Palestinians supposedly hate me is also hell-bent on making my life as a trans person as hard as they possibly can, and by funny i mean i want to send in the mfing tanks.

Liberals be like peaceful protest is the only way to make progress unless of course the country is run by brown people in which case you should bomb it until none of them are left breathing and send white people to live in their homes once theyre gone.

Would it have been acceptable, nay morally right, for the GDR to bomb the US?

It would be morally right for 90% of the world to bomb the USA, turnabout is fair play

haha rainbow map.

"Nato queers" and other kinds of imperial bootlickers are not people I respect.

Israel blackmails queer Palestinians into becoming collaborators by threatening to out them to their families and community.

Ohio repealed Sodomy laws and decriminalized same-sex relations 30 years before a very large part of the rest of the country did. It's sad how the chuds took over since then.

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I mean blue state liberals would be fine with bombing texans I feel, just look at how they respond to natural disasters.

There was a news story out around ten years ago about how cops in Baton Rouge, Louisiana were still arresting gay people under sodomy laws even though they knew those laws had been made unconstitutional and legally unenforceable.

The GDR did this despite inheriting the nazis legal code

GDR actually used Weimar Republic legal code, because it refused to recognize legitimacy of Nazi Germany.

americans are racist towards almost every country so its ok to bomb them i guess

What do you mean Texas, it's the entire American south sans Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky lol

Goddamn, Illinois coming in with a rare victory in a policy race

Huh TIL Illinois was the first state to decriminalize being gay. That's pretty cool