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Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 days agoThe capitalist farmers, little more than slave drivers, decided to resist collectivization by setting fire to their crops, murdering workers, fighting the Red Army, and killing their livestock, which ended up creating famine conditions. There wasn’t a widespread order to “kill all kulaks,” but there was widespread killing of kulaks that decided to violently resist having their mechanisms of slave-driving taken away.
As for Cuba, they didn’t have a widespread execution campaign of gay people, either. Gay people were fined, imprisoned, and sent to re-education camps, a fact Castro himself has apologized for and maintains that it was a great injustice committed by the revolution. Homosexuality was de-criminalized in 1979 in Cuba, and today Cuba’s Family Code is among the most progressive in the world, far surpassing the US.
You really have no clue what you’re talking about, otherwise you wouldn’t be praising the Russian equivalent of the US confederacy nor would you be speaking of Cuba as though it still persecutes gay people like the US does today. As a queer person myself, this “rainbow imperialism” nonsense coming from you only serves to support the US Empire. Without the Cuban Revolution, gay people would likely still be persecuted just as they were under the fascist slaver Batista regime, a practice ended by the revolution and the dramatic equality it stood for.
I am not going to shed any tears for slavers, nazis, fascists, or the bourgeoisie as their property gets redistributed. There’s no “mask” there, that’s standard leftism of all stripes.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Oh lmao he said sorry well that’s fine then.
/*Jerk-off motion and heavy eye-roll*
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
No, he said it was a horrible crime, Cuba decriminalized homosexuality in 1979, then went on to become one of the most progressive countries in the world for queer people today. Cuba didn’t execute masses of gay people, nor did the USSR, you’ve made shit up on both accounts. That’s all anti-communists do, really, your little gesture at the end I mean.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
advocate.com/…/fidel-castro-leaves-legacy-oppress…
“I would never be happy about anyone’s death – anyone,” Herb Sosa, a Cuban-American who heads the Miami-based LGBT group Unity Coalition, told the Washington Blade. “But the long-awaited passing of one of the Castro monsters that have imposed nearly six decades of oppression, pain and death to so many Cubans does bring a certain closure for many.”
“No matter how much better life for gay Cubans might have improved from the days of forced labor camps, it’s all occurring within the context of a totalitarian society whose citizens cannot vote, are denied basic freedoms like the right to speak or protest freely, and cannot form organizations independent of the government,” Kirchick wrote.
Nevertheless, much remains to be done to advance human rights, including LGBT rights, in Cuba, activists say. “Fidel Castro’s death invites us to remain calm and to focus on our activism to achieve change in Cuba, as opposed to rejoice over his death,” Nelson Gandulla Diaz, president of the Cuban Foundation for LGBTI Rights, told the Blade Saturday.
“Fidel is gone, but Raul remains,” he added. “The fight continues.”
Sounds great lmao
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Unironically repeating an emotional anecdote with no facts or statistics from a Miami-based Cuban Exile group, you know the slavers and fascists, as a point against Cuba is very silly. Those who flef Cuna just want their plantations and slaves back, even if you find LGBTQ descendents of slavers that doesn’t make their cause just. Cuba is better than Miami for gay rights, lmao.