Its crazy that foreign countries’ pr teams spend any energy on this site, but not surprising that they dont spend enough time here to be able to read the room.
obviously 99% of web users are going to be from a different country to you, and therefore not share your country’s political norms
Yeah but hexbear is like 90% queer and calling homophobia an assertion of sovereignty isnt in contrast with my country’s political norms (homophobia is very common here!) But it is in contrast with this website’s
I think it’s safe to say whatever reasons may exist, they aren’t valid ones. I’m highly skeptical the “play” of throwing a bunch of your comrades under the bus like that is ever effective even in the most clinical analysis.
It’s always better to understand why these things happen than to dismiss them as ‘just homophobia’ in a knee jerk reaction. Yes, of course it’s homophobia at its core, but as a queer person who has the privilege of watching this as an onlooker rather than living through it in Burkina Faso (and my heart goes out to the people living through it), I would like to understand what conditions surround the implementation of evil laws like this. Exploring that is not legitimising the homophobia.
And frankly accusing Awoo of trying to do that is just taking what she’s saying in bad faith.
Its crazy that foreign countries’ pr teams spend any energy on this site, but not surprising that they dont spend enough time here to be able to read the room.
is it Awoo or Vampire that you’re stating represent a foreign country’s PR team? I don’t see any mention of hexbear in any of Vampire’s links.
what are you on about?
for starters, which countries are “foreign”?
obviously 99% of web users are going to be from a different country to you, and therefore not share your country’s political norms
secondly, wut?
Most of them!
Yeah but hexbear is like 90% queer and calling homophobia an assertion of sovereignty isnt in contrast with my country’s political norms (homophobia is very common here!) But it is in contrast with this website’s
Awoo’s question is based on this line of thinking:
Assume the Ouagadougou government isn’t homophobic
Then they pass a homophobic law
Therefore they must be passing the law to play 3D chess
They passed an anti-gay law coz they’re anti-gay. Let’s not overthink this.
It’s not 3D chess to consider whether there’s political reasons rather than cultural ones.
I think it’s safe to say whatever reasons may exist, they aren’t valid ones. I’m highly skeptical the “play” of throwing a bunch of your comrades under the bus like that is ever effective even in the most clinical analysis.
It’s always better to understand why these things happen than to dismiss them as ‘just homophobia’ in a knee jerk reaction. Yes, of course it’s homophobia at its core, but as a queer person who has the privilege of watching this as an onlooker rather than living through it in Burkina Faso (and my heart goes out to the people living through it), I would like to understand what conditions surround the implementation of evil laws like this. Exploring that is not legitimising the homophobia.
And frankly accusing Awoo of trying to do that is just taking what she’s saying in bad faith.
I think you replied to the wrong comment
No? That comment was for you
huh?
The web is full of foreigners who don’t think like you.
yes i understand that part but the 99% doesn’t make sense with how web traffic is siloed by language and whatnot.