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This is exactly what conservatives want in America.
It's shocking that it's not 1950 with some of the news we have these days.
This is an opportunity to maliciously comply with the minimum most sarcastic but not super obviously sarcastic disgust possible
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Stories like this are why I chuckle at the "The only thing more powerful than hate is love" memes that are running rampant this morning.
It's like no one's looked out their window recently or ever cracked open a history book.
Can someone explain to me why fascists are so obsessed with homosexuality and transgender topics?
I feel like a lot of fascists try to bake in a lot of hierarchy as the natural order, that this is what nature intended.
Queer people end up being an example that the way nature is isn't as clearly defined as the fascists say it should be
Seems this is #12 in Umberto Eco's description of fascism and its hatred towards liberal progressivism:
Since both permanent war and heroism are difficult games to play, the Ur-Fascist transfers his will to power to sexual matters. This is the origin of machismo (which implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality). Since even sex is a difficult game to play, the Ur-Fascist hero tends to play with weapons — doing so becomes an ersatz phallic exercise.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism
It might be like with witches back in the day. If everybody hates witches, you can call any inconvenient person a witch and dispose them. The other thing is that it alignes with general backwards mentality.
Because tolerance requires open mindedness and critical thinking. Two things that undermine a fascists regime when the entire population does that. By banning homosexuality the regime basically tells the people that they shouldn’t think beyond their first gut reaction. It’s okay to hate, it’s okay that the police beats up your gay neighbor, it’s okay to not think about it, it’s okay to not think at all.
Hm, I'm not sure. Fascists also sometimes also like their audience to "think differently", e.g. disregard science, "wake up" and see the truth and or connect themselves with veganism and nature.
Yeah but they still need to forgo critical thinking. They should only think what Big Brother wants them to think, since publicly criticizing that neo paganism ideology would mean you get a visit from the secret police.
I'd say that the idolisation of a fictional, ideal which society should strive towards but never achieve, allows focusing of opposition. If it weren't for the gays/trans/gypsies/Muslims/immigrants/unemployed/trade unionists (delete as applicable) then society would be as it was used to be, which is always perfect and better than it is now. Of course as society will never be perfect, there must alway be a new group to blame for failure to meet the necessary ideal.
Fascism is a radically conservative ideology obsessed with promotion of (what the fascist sees as) traditional values and behaviours. That includes cisheteronormativity, as queerness isn't traditional anywhere.
I mean, isn't it traditional in parts of south/south-east Asia?
I think their view of traditions is also very selective. E.g. in Germany they prefer to connect with paganism and scandinavian things and not actual German / Christian traditions.
It's only my theory however; it's comes down to babys and education, if your population is making babys and lots of them at a young age, things like education and quality of life can suffer dues to having to support kids. Lack of education leads you to belie ving in propaganda more easily. Also lack of education makes you more likely to have kids younger and in less than ideal financial situation. More kids with less education, means it's easier to populate a military. Hopefully you get the idea and sweeping generalisations I've made. Now homosexuals and by proxy transgender don't produce children (ignoring adoption etc etc) so they aren't what the dictators want and they also might give the heterosexuals ideas about not have kids, or at least delaying it, getting and education etc etc. then add in a sprinkling of religion, also good to control uneducated masses, and you have the perfect population for dictator/fascist control
Tldr: they want an uneducated baby producing population
Sounds plausible but it also a very "long" game, taking at least one additional generation into their teenage years. I guess there are some of them thinking on that level but I have the feeling that the average fascist doesn't plan ahead very far or at has at least a very distorted time perception (e.g. they feel like the white "race" being replaced fearmongering is an urgent topic).
"Penguins can be, and often are, homosexual. Gross."
Kremlin approved!
No homo 🤠
his publisher told him the descriptions of same-sex behavior in a book on animal sexual behavior were against the law
So it wasn't legally or expressedly banned by the govt. But in authoritarian fear-based and legally unpredictable states it's not unusual for people to individually take rules even further than technically necessary, to affirm their adherence to the system and to be safe from even the smallest suspicion or most ridiculous accusation.
Might be worth noting that the publisher (Eksmo-AST) is one of the biggest book publishers in Russia.
I'd rather have my kids/friends be gay than being sent to the frontlines to die like a bug for some demented fool.
I'd rather have a gay parade pass by my door every day than have crazy criminal conscripts with PTSD running around free in my neighbourhood.
You don't even have to be a liberal to recognize this.
I mean, a gay parade would be nice anyway, regardless.