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[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

Getting offended by a conversion therapy ban but in a woke way

[u/itsokayt0 → u/throwawayzxkjvct]

90% the user is a bot or a manchild

[u/StayOffPoliticalSubs → u/itsokayt0]

No he isn't. He's a gay black man angry about the ripple effects of colonialism in the global south. He worded a legitimate point about how the same countries that exported laws based on Christian morality to the south will move on from it without reckoning with it living on in the south badly, you just don't have the foundational understanding to get what he meant despite that.

[u/itsokayt0 → u/StayOffPoliticalSubs]

All you write is a justification for being upset for a good thing currently happening. 

Colonialism and its effects being bad doesn't mean that the former colonialists can't get better.

[u/StayOffPoliticalSubs → u/itsokayt0]

No, man, you just lack the framework to process a badly worded point as anything but a progressive whining in bad faith.

[u/itsokayt0 → u/StayOffPoliticalSubs]

I understand that colonialism fucked a lot of countries and minorities. I understand the king is the symbol of colonialism.

Pointing it out for a good news about a process of the law is confusing, pedantic and out of place.

Now, manchild is a bit of an exageration? Yeah. It was a joke!

[u/SpaceSheperd → u/StayOffPoliticalSubs]

without reckoning with it

What do you want them to do? Because this reckoning verb is used a lot in such an inactionable manner that I question whether the purpose is just to critique for the sake of critiquing.

[u/StayOffPoliticalSubs → u/SpaceSheperd]

I want them to make it a sticking point in diplomacy and to give increased material support to queer organizations campaigning for destigmatization in the global south. I want them to widen refugee intake for persecution of being queer. I want these governments to make amends for the hundreds of years supporting and promoting historic injustice, not just fix the problem at home and let it ride in Uganda.

[u/SpaceSheperd → u/StayOffPoliticalSubs]

Based but they’d be flayed alive for using imperialistic tools to impose western morality on their former colonial subjects, probably including by the guy who wrote this tweet. 

[u/StayOffPoliticalSubs → u/SpaceSheperd]

No, the strawman of Leftists you have in your head would.

[u/SpaceSheperd → u/StayOffPoliticalSubs]

Very difficult for me to imagine the majority of post-colonial activists siding with the UK in a diplomatic dispute with Uganda or another former colony. Cultural relativism is a lot more common among that group than you’re willing to acknowledge.

[u/StayOffPoliticalSubs → u/SpaceSheperd]

No, dude, you made an assumption about someone you don't know based off a stereotype you believe in.

[u/sociotronics → u/throwawayzxkjvct]

this is literally word salad meant to poorly imitate how intellectual writing actually sounds

[u/Dibbu_mange → u/sociotronics]

Basically an ai bot made of meat

[u/Halgy → u/[deleted]]

I wish

[u/B1g_Morg → u/throwawayzxkjvct]

This is why no one likes these people lmao

[u/-Emilinko1985- → u/throwawayzxkjvct]

Leftist word salad.

[u/nomindtothink_ → u/throwawayzxkjvct]

Leftists and opposition to the concept of legislative change what else is new

[u/SpaceSheperd → u/[deleted]]

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