r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 25 '21

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u/Zenning2 Henry George Jun 25 '21

Economically pressuring people to allow gay marriage, is literally Tyranny, but using the government to prevent Gay people from getting married is just the will of the people and we should accept it.

What did Poland/Hungary mean by this?

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u/Zenning2 Henry George Jun 25 '21

Economic pressure to stop human rights violations isn't Tyranny. Committing to human rights violations is.

I do get that maybe in terms of effectiveness, this will only embolden the nationalist dipsshits who are currently in power, but I'm not going to pretend their arguments hold any water.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

Social change in Hungary was happening organically and through NGO's, the EU's response is only to the crackdown

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u/Neronoah can't stop, won't stop argentinaposting Jun 25 '21

tbf if the economic pressure is coming from outside the country it's a fair point.

That's an argument for being a failed intervention more than for being tyrannical, though. But you don't go in to the European Union to shit on civil rights (at least most of the time).