• axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    They absolutely do pretend to be allies of gay people since it hasn’t been politically advantageous to be openly homophobic since like 2007. They especially pretend when the subject of Islam or communism comes up. Look at how they talk about gay people who support Gaza, or how they’ll fabricate claims about Cuba or China’s supposed homophobia.

    I don’t think it’s worked yet, but turning queer people into Islamopobes is definitely some long term state department project.

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      I need an emoji I can just post every time this comes up. LGBTQ+ rights, women’s rights, and so on are the modern version of “White Man’s Burden” when used by liberals. They don’t actually give a shit about these issues or they would eliminate discrimination within their own borders. When it comes to “evil” brown and black countries? That’s when they’ll whip out the identity politics to justify military action. They’ve replaced democracy, “civilization,” and Christianity with bad faith idpol.

      • Lemister [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        24 hours ago

        They cry about Kingdom come deliverance 2 having a gay romance, but then whine about homophobia because china allegedly cuts out all gay scenes from movies.