certainly, our elder queers would like to remind one colonial power, & her majesty, of centuries-old criminalization of homosexual behavior, leading up to the Wolfenden Report in 1957 — and the decade that followed before passage of the Sexual Offences Act, or…
has the more recent posthumous pardons of Turing & friends absolved your tiny island of any and all past, present & future human rights abuses?
pink-washing isn’t new. it’s been utilized by the israeli government for decades as an example of their ‘progressive’ state. american corporations love to pander to teh gayz with rainbow logos and pride parade sponsorships, yet donate finances to legislators who support & pass discriminatory laws that target minorities.
the mythology of an affluent lgbqti+ community also needs to end. the disparities should be well-documented enough, as should the repeated use of class to divide & disparage communities.
i’m laughing at the terrible click-bait. it’s a poorly framed article, without historical/economic context of international/merkan ‘involvement’, etc. though, from a socio/psych- perspective, it’s interesting to see bbc skirting the phenomenon of humans avoiding the obvious suffering of others.
if only ‘those vapid rich gays’ could realize! privilege of class is not restricted to sexuality.
proposing a new subhead:
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Fascists fetishize “Western” philosophy. Amusingly, Locke literally calls for the brutal destruction of fascists. He’s more radical than anti-fascist activists.
“It being reasonable and just, I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction: for, by the fundamental law of nature, man being to be preserved as much as possible, when all cannot be preserved, the safety of the innocent is to be preferred…”
CHAP. III. Of the State of War
Second Treatise of Civil Government John Locke (1690)
Tennessee GOP State Senator Frank Niceley said this on the floor of the state house:
“I haven’t given you all a history lesson in awhile, and I wanted to give you a little history on homelessness. [In] 1910, Hitler decided to live on the streets for a while. So for two years, Hitler lived on the streets and practiced his oratory, and his body language, and how to connect with citizens and then went on to lead a life that got him in the history books.”
The new Nazi is not that different from the old Nazi. It’s just spelled GOP.
azok a sátánfajzatok, akik utálnak minket meg az örökkénvaló, szent, szovjet Oroszország Anyácskát, mert megtámadjuk, megerőszakoljuk, kiraboljuk és legyilkoljuk őket?
azok a sátánfajzatok, akik utálnak minket meg az örökkénvaló, szent, szovjet Oroszország Anyácskát, mert megtámadjuk, megerőszakoljuk, kiraboljuk és legyilkoljuk őket?
