Their predecessors were perfectly happy to criminalize homosexuality and chemically castrate Alan Turing, all while saying "well at least we don't practice ritual cannibalism like those foreign savages."
Meanwhile THEIR predecessors were ritually grinding up and snorting mummies at parties waited on by veritable slaves. It's bullshit excuses and racism all the way down. It always just boils down to "well at least we don't do (thing we were doing quite recently until better people forcibly stopped us)".
And of course, then they immediately hide behind LGBT and women's rights when someone says "hey, that sounds a little racist"
Their predecessors were perfectly happy to criminalize homosexuality and chemically castrate Alan Turing, all while saying "well at least we don't practice ritual cannibalism like those foreign savages."
Meanwhile THEIR predecessors were ritually grinding up and snorting mummies at parties waited on by veritable slaves. It's bullshit excuses and racism all the way down. It always just boils down to "well at least we don't do (thing we were doing quite recently until better people forcibly stopped us)".
Not just that, go back further and Europe had a centuries long fad of using ground up human skulls and other body parts as medicine, the mummies were just the tail end of it. Maybe they'll even bring it back to treat the King's prostate so he can die stuffed full of dead people like the last King Charles did.