• Nakoichi [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Calling an entire country homophobic is peak lib racism. Same shit as when they were saying Texans deserved to freeze to death.

    • StLangoustine [any]
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      4 years ago

      I dunno. People talk about countries being racist all the time. There are a whole bunch of countries where most people are proudly homophobic.

      Not saying that bombing them is a solution.

      • Nakoichi [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        It's a generalization of an entire population, usually one of mostly non-white people. And one that they surely wouldn't use to describe their own.

        • SiskoDid2ThingsWrong [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          This site makes arguments for collective guilt all the time. I don’t think we can suddenly revert back to “individual responsibility” when the population being held to account is one we sympathize with.

          • Nakoichi [they/them]
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            4 years ago

            It's still an example of the form of unconscious racism in liberals.

            • SiskoDid2ThingsWrong [none/use name]
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              4 years ago

              Okay, yes, but if Anglos can be held collective responsible for shit the states representing them do, and that some X%-above-50 supports, even if randomly John Doe is personally against it, the same goes for POC nations.

              • Nakoichi [they/them]
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                4 years ago

                The racist part is where they use it as justification for bombing people and the double standard that they seem to reserve that stance for nonwhite countries.

                • SiskoDid2ThingsWrong [none/use name]
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                  4 years ago

                  Well like the other guy you’re replying too, I also don’t support bombing countries just because they’re gov’n/most of their citizens hold regressive views.

                  • Nakoichi [they/them]
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                    4 years ago

                    But my original comment that they came in with the "well actually" to was me calling the poster in the image racist for using that justification. Y'all are arguing with a point I didn't make.

              • toledosequel [none/use name]
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                4 years ago

                but if Anglos can be held collective responsible for shit the states representing them do

                ?????

                  • tim [he/him,they/them]
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                    4 years ago

                    It’s not our fault if we let in a few irony poisoned libs who don’t understand material analysis

                  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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                    4 years ago

                    I’m literally the most reverse racist anti-white person on this site and i’ve never seen an unironic example of this type of person you describe, this place isn’t as cool as that

              • comi [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                Actually the same doesn’t go for nations, where information is scarce

          • tim [he/him,they/them]
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            4 years ago

            I guess we’ve reached the point in this site where it’s necessary to say: I don’t literally think we should glass Israel. Can I get unbanned from Twitch now?

        • StLangoustine [any]
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          4 years ago

          I mean, it's a statistical thing. If ninety percent of population hate gays and there are anti-gay laws I think it's fair to say it's a homophobic country.

            • StLangoustine [any]
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              4 years ago

              I'm surprised I have to make clear on this site that I don't think bombing is good way of making people less homophobic, but l already did in my previous comment.

              • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                I used to be a homophobe, but then I had a fireworks accident. Bombings work

              • Nakoichi [they/them]
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                4 years ago

                My point still stands that this is what liberal racism looks like, it's not as intentional or overt as right wing shitheads it's a casual disregard for the lives of people in other countries that they definitely wouldn't hold the same standard for white people for.

                • StLangoustine [any]
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                  4 years ago

                  I understand the whole human rights industrial complex thing is usually just an instrument to manufacture consent for imperialist aggression. Still, doesn't mean that calling Russia a homophobic country is in concept a more of unfair generalisation than calling France an islamophobic country.

                  • Nakoichi [they/them]
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                    4 years ago

                    I just have a principle of not using such generalizations of "countries" the state sure, and maybe that seems like pedantry but I think it's an important distinction. It also depends on the person making the critique and the post this is a bout is definitely not thinking about this in the terms you or I are.

            • blobjim [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              It's actually 100% that doesn't deserve to be bombed still.

          • Gayan [undecided]
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            4 years ago

            No, its only fair to say that 90% of that country is homophobic.

            The 10% are likely victims of it, and punishing them along with the others is a similar evil to being homophobic.

            Judging an entire population for the actions of part of them is literaly the foundation of racism, homophobia and most bigotry.