just wondering if there’s been any updates since nutomic’s transphobic behaviour anyone can report on.

  • Diva (she/her)M
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    3 months ago

    Yeah, just a frustrating situation, running into communists who view trans people as bourgeois decadence is usually something I have to go home for.

    The process of ‘westernization’ was what brought things like homophobia and transphobia to places under colonial occupation. The civil criminalization of gay people in England started as early as things like the buggery act of 1533, buggery comes from the french term bougre -

    "sodomite," 1550s, earlier "heretic" (mid-14c.), from Medieval Latin Bulgarus "a Bulgarian" (see Bulgaria), so called from bigoted notions of the sex lives of Eastern Orthodox Christians or of the sect of heretics that was prominent there 11c. Compare Old French bougre "Bulgarian," also "heretic; sodomite."

    The western imported ‘values’ were themselves rooted in xenophobia and bigotry against eastern orthodox heretics. (Bogomils)