Funny that you bring that up. Most of Africa and West Asia got colonized when Victorian England was at its prudest point. They "civilizedâ the âsavagesâ and taught them their Victorian moral values. This has a lasting influence until today. While you consider yourself civilized and educated and those others are the backwards ideas, in reality while your ancestors were living off their wealth they had the capacity to think about luxury like human rights (Iâm sorry, it shouldnât be a luxury, but it is), while the colonized were busy trying to survive.
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InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨days⊠agoUnfortunately Ugandans view lgbt stuff as neo colonialism. Most Africans are rather religious and traditional. If not Christian they are Muslims; both of which are none native to Africa and homophobic. Its hard to see how they will change their minds unless they come to the conclusion on their own.
burgerchurgarr@lemmus.org â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
while the colonized were busy trying to survive.
Still are
Korne127@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
Viewing accepting and supporting people that are different as (neo-)colonialism is just dumb. They deserve to be seen as equal and live a happy life there as much as anywhere else. Being African doesnât excuse you for being an asshole.
Katana314@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
Alright, Iâll admit this is a plan for a story Iâm writing to help define who the bad guys are:
They hate the neighboring country, and homosexuality. They use puritanical thinking to frame the latter as an evil invention of the former; âThe men there are so fowl and heartless, they hate all forms of femininity, and prefer to bond with other demons like themselves. The women feel forced to find love with each other.â
Iâm starting to get curious if any one particular country might feel offended at my story when I someday write it.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
Doesnât feel like a specific call out.
queermunist@lemmy.ml â¨3⊠â¨days⊠ago
I wonder if the West having this new wave of anti-queer reaction will short-circuit this cycle. Hard to claim we are agents of neocolonialism and imperialism when the US is attacking trans people and is on the cusp of rolling back gay marriage rights.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨days⊠ago
Maybe, but they view their religion as native, not foreign. And those have built in homophobia in the doctrine.
queermunist@lemmy.ml â¨3⊠â¨days⊠ago
Doctrine and religion are always changing based on historical forces, so if the historical winds are blowing against âlgbt=colonialismâ then this will have effects on religion and doctrine. The contradiction will need to be resolved somehow.
IndiBrony@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨days⊠ago
Contradiction with religious folk is often boiled down to âif I donât believe the contradiction exists then it must not exist!â
Source: whenever anyone brings up contradictions in the Bible
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨days⊠ago
I get what your saying, but Iâm adding that even independently of that they follow abrahamic religions and that is homophobic. On one hand there is a niew of neo colonialism and on the other you might be asking them to be more secular. Both are very steep and somewhat independent hills.
BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
That'd be... nice... but no. When it come to homophobia, people hate what they don't understand and then come up with reasons to justify it, not the other way around.
queermunist@lemmy.ml â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
Misanthropy tbh
Hate has a material basis, itâs not just something that emerges organically from human nature. The ruling class needs to maximize the reproduction of labor so it invented and promoted queer hate as a way to remove one of those obstacles. Its material basis is actually very similar to anti-abortion and anti-contraception and anti-feminist politics.