Extremely disappointing to see this, this is not a Sankara thing to do at all.

  • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    A saddening development, but critical support for AES. I know fuck all about Burkina Faso, but I can’t say I’m surprised. The west is generally considered to be much more socially liberal than the rest of the world, and we seem to be doing our damnedest to get rid of rights for anyone lgbtq

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      Realistically, we made major strides after breaking Jim Crow apartheid and the libs spent the whole time lording their social reforms over the global south while pillaging them and paving the way for a far right government to dismantle the same reforms.

      A lot of international anti LGBT sentiment recently comes from a place of resentment against the west and was imposed by the west in the first place.

      We only think we’re progressive because we have the attention span of goldfish.

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        Sodomy was illegal in parts of America in the 21st century and institutional homo/transphobia is coming back in america. We’re all much closer to the global south re social liberalism than we think