I used to think human rights were unconditional, but then someone told me that Palestinians are actually homophobic, so as any rational person capable of critical thinking and nuanced thought would do, I abandoned all of my values and pivoted to support for apartheid.
They made an excellent point, namely that I should support the murder and displacement of homophobes, which is why I propose the following.
Every queer person in North America will come together and form a milita. I'll assume George Soros will pay for everything. For your first mission, you'll take over the state of Florida. I have it on good authority from Conservatives that the US military has gone woke, so I expect them to cooperate with you.
To any Floridians reading this, you have 24 hours to leave before you are crushed under the high heels of the Pink Army. You brought this on yourself by voting for Ron Desantis. Do not resist. Bigots deserve bombs. Anyone who is opposed to this is a homophobe who supports Hamas and is literally worse than Hitler.
Do they think the entirety of Iranian women, Chinese Uyghurs, or literally anyone else they want to “free” are secular liberals lol. These people want me to shake hands with Nazis in congress but get mad because I’m not okay with bombing random people because they might be homophonic?
yes liberals are always surprised when people aren't secular liberals as they are just used to expecting it from everyone
as socialists we are used to the idea of our opinions being controversial, so are fascists. Liberalism is the ruling ideology and liberals are just used to everyone agreeing with them
I also learned recently that if a country's government doesn't explicitly support LGBTQ rights that means all the people in that country also don't support it. No country ever changes over time and nobody anywhere is struggling for liberation. This means we don't need to support their struggle because they aren't struggling!
Also we forget that in England in the 1970s women were expected to wear headscarfs outside. These are very recent changes in our society. Like how Hong Kong spent a total of 6 months as a democracy before being handed over to China
Now come on, we need to wait for further context. Some queer people are just really into being dominated and humiliated. How do you know the IDF won't stop the second the Palestinians utter their safeword?
The safeword in question is the Hatikvah, followed by a 4096-bit RSA key in hexadecimal, followed by the Hatikvah again, and one must utter it in person to an IDF soldier in Gaza in one sitting uninterrupted with no mistakes.
The IDF issues warnings that if any gay people are in they area, they can be spared if they defect for the purposes of being in propaganda photo shoots.
Reminds me of the start of Ukraine, when NAFO losers were touting the based trans troops of the US against the evil homophobic russians, only thing I could think of was 'how the fuck do you think trans people are generally treated here?? Have you read anything about terf island, your based NATO ally??'
The psyop only works for privileged Euros and CanAmericans while the rest of their allies get confused by its existence. Any mention of "based trans troops" is just a regionally-specific marketing tool
The joys of homonationalism - unfortunate name tbh - a cornerstone of western supremacist liberals and fascists since at least Pim Fortuyn's electoral campaign in the 2002 Dutch elections.
Also TIL he was one of those new left clowns that became a renegade in the late 80s.
A lot of the people that hold these positions are also the people that write articles along the lines of
"I met with gay rights activists in country-where-being-gay-has-the-death-penalty to show how little I a London based journalist fear reprisals here are their names and addresses"
If these people get attacked, the journalist views it as a q.e.d. of what they just wrote and it just further legitimizes "and here's why we must intervene"
This is true, but compared to the rest of the middle East they're still far ahead. Sexual activity with the same sex is legal and discrimination based on sexual orientation is illegal.
Maybe the rest of the middle east would also be far ahead if the US hadn't toppled any progressive, democratic government in the region that made too many socialistic noises
assuming a standard rate of 10% of the population being lgbt and 1% being trans, the IDF is currently conducting a terror campaign on 200,000 lgbt people, which includes 20,000 trans people, in the Gaza strip. Sounds like their record on LGBT rights is so good!
For your first mission, you'll take over the state of Florida. I have it on good authority from Conservatives that the US military has gone woke, so I expect them to cooperate with you.
To any Floridians reading this, you have 24 hours to leave before you are crushed under the high heels of the Pink Army. You brought this on yourself by voting for Ron Desantis.
I honestly can’t think of a country whose army I wouldn’t support invading and occupying this cursed place. Cuba would be the ideal choice, but I’d even greet troops as liberators. Please someone my people yearn for freedom.
I used to think human rights were unconditional, but then someone told me that Palestinians are actually homophobic, so as any rational person capable of critical thinking and nuanced thought would do, I abandoned all of my values and pivoted to support for apartheid.
"acktchyually gays are racist so homophobia is good"
It's very interesting the people who have spent the past year demonizing Trans people suddenly declare themselves an athourity on what queer people can and can't protest
They're so focused on being racist islamophobes that they've forgotten how to to be queerphobes. Remember last month when they thought us queers could turn kids gay with library books? Yet they haven't considered the possibility of harnessing that power against Hamas.
them being anti or phobic anything really doesnt matter when they are under a literal siege. once they arent under siege, we can address their religious fundamentalism, but until then....
Liberals are always surprised by the outcome when they create false scarcity in a community and then crush any left opposition that offers a non-reactionary explanation for why people are suffering.
This is why I propose (sincerely) that we should stop and discourage using the word 'innocent' in these discussions. The wrongness of murdering an unarmed person, or bombing someone's home, or evicting them from their ancestral lands, or racist portrayals designed to dehumanize, is not conditioned on the innocence of the victims.
And at the same time, true 'innocence', or even civilianity, is in extremely short supply in Israel due to mandatory conscription and the perpetual violence of the illegal settlements as a mechanism of ethnic cleansing, let alone the foundational crimes of the Israeli state and 'softer', less direct forms of complicity and support like taxation or employment in the massive military-industrial complex.
If we feel horror at the most brutal moments of the Palestinian armed resistance, it cannot be because those killed, injured, or otherwise hurt or frightened are innocent. It has to be because overwhelming brutality is horrifying no matter who it targets. But if that's true, it's undeniable that the Israeli patterns and policies of massively disproportionate response and collective punishment are horrors of a much, much greater magnitude than individual, particularly brutal incidents of Palestinian vengeance.
The concept of innocence serves, on the one hand:
to paper over the unique and extreme military orientation of Israeli society, and absolutely overwhelming participation in the IDF— let alone the wider military-industrial complex and illegal extraterritorial settlement— in Israeli society; and on the other,
to put conditions on which Palestinians deserve safety, and treat Israel's disproportionate response as just by default— what Israel is doing is right except for how it affects 'innocent Palestinians'.
Under such a frame, the primary aggressor and oppressor in an asymmetric conflict becomes the innocent, passive victim. At the same time, framing 'innocent Palestinians' as collateral damage transforms the primary effect of bombing an apartment buildings into a mere side effect.
The concept of 'innocence' here serves only to obscure the moral and political realities. Let's reject it and correct it when it comes up.
Ukraine is going to legalize same sex marriage soon so don’t tell me there isn’t at least some positives by siding with the West (and I understand the anti-imperialist sentiment about the situation regarding Russia and Ukraine).
Z said they can't change the constitution in war time, so we'll see about that. I found no evidence that this was truly going to happen outside of Zelensky mentioning it once.
Thanks for the correction. I remember reading about it in the news the other day and now upon checking it looks like it was just that public support for same sex marriage legalization has increased but nothing substantial yet.
Someone tried to pull a gotcha at me by saying " I knew a palestinian girl who hated China because of the Uyghur genocide" like geez the person this particular piece of atrocity propaganda was specifically made for happened to fell for it, surely I must support israel now.