• zymefish@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    Where can I see an analysis of this homophobia that isn’t poisoned by the lens of a liberal imperialists perspective? I would like to know what’s actually happening there, not what some NPR weasel says.

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      2 years ago

      ^ After finding out that at least the majority of men executed in Iran ostensibly for “homosexuality” were actually offending pedophiles used as a human rights cudgel by the U.S., I’m dying to know what policies actually look like in these supposedly backwards places. Not goodTM much of the time, maybe, but it cannot be as demonic as the transatlantic empire likes to pretend it is. Depending on the state, of course.

      We are allies with more than a couple of states who proudly execute LGBT people and rarely throw the cudgel at them (until it’s politically expedient, like with KSA pivoting to China), so…