This also creates a mutual antagonism which the US is all too happy to exploit, leading queer individuals to taking a pro-US stance in reaction to the anti-queer reaction in their own countries. It’s understandable, and can only be called a strategic blunder by these communist parties caused by a non-materialist and vulgar anti-USian world view.
I defend China and Vietnam because I think they have a progressive trajectory - remember, it wasn’t that long ago that the entire West was just as queerphobic. This is something that can change very quickly, and that goes both ways.
If Trump establishes a New Reich and starts persecuting us, I bet these same anti-queer communists will suddenly become pro-lgbt. It’s a very shallow thing.
If China is anti-LGBT because of The West (not sure I like the sound of nationalistic reactionary pseudo-socialism), then why wasn’t it pro-LGBT back when the West was anti-LGBT? Why did Stalin’s Russia move to immediately homosexuality?
And you need not look much further than the collaborative persecution of Muslims between Israel and China to see that they are clearly happy doing the same thing to a very similar group of people
This also creates a mutual antagonism which the US is all too happy to exploit, leading queer individuals to taking a pro-US stance in reaction to the anti-queer reaction in their own countries. It’s understandable, and can only be called a strategic blunder by these communist parties caused by a non-materialist and vulgar anti-USian world view.
I defend China and Vietnam because I think they have a progressive trajectory - remember, it wasn’t that long ago that the entire West was just as queerphobic. This is something that can change very quickly, and that goes both ways.
If Trump establishes a New Reich and starts persecuting us, I bet these same anti-queer communists will suddenly become pro-lgbt. It’s a very shallow thing.
If China is anti-LGBT because of The West (not sure I like the sound of nationalistic reactionary pseudo-socialism), then why wasn’t it pro-LGBT back when the West was anti-LGBT? Why did Stalin’s Russia move to immediately homosexuality?
And you need not look much further than the collaborative persecution of Muslims between Israel and China to see that they are clearly happy doing the same thing to a very similar group of people