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The West exploits these issues to appear progressive and to hide its hyper-exploitative actions elsewhere. Being Pro-LGBT costs the rich very little, whereas worker's rights present a clear and present threat to them.

So with Queer Rights primarily being associated with the countries that colonized your land and stole your resources, it's no wonder why they would be seen as yet another evil plot.

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It's happening in Russia. The whole LGBTQ+ community is treated as a Western cancer infecting Russian society. They have fallen so far from the progressive politics of the USSR.

This is going to get worse, and it will turn those queer citizens of the Global South into Western fifth columnists, further perpetuating the cycle of queerness being "Western decadence." I think the only reason why the West is faux progressive at all is because the West figured out how to weaponize queer rights as pinkwashing. Why do you think the acceptance towards queer rights happened so suddenly? That's when pinkwashing became a thing. The corollary is as soon as pinkwashing is no longer useful to empire, there will be a massive reactionary backlash as queer people are hung out to dry by their "allies."

I also suspect much of the spearhead towards queer rights in the Global South is headed by Western NGOs that purposefully set up the queer natives for failure. I'll use China as an example. The go-to pronoun used by many Chinese enbies is TA, which is just the pinyin of the third person pronoun. I believe they were set up for failure because if you were some Chinese person skeptical of queerness being "Western decadence," then the fact that a bunch of people use Western letters instead of Chinese characters to describe themselves would pretty much confirm your skepticism. Instead of using different Chinese characters like 祂 or even coming up with a new Chinese character, they resorted to using the Western alphabet. There is also a source of division since TA isn't the pinyin of the third person pronoun, but the pinyin of the third person pronoun in Mandarin. Most of the major topolects like Cantonese and Shanghainese have completely different third person pronouns, so by saying TA, you're imposing Mandarin pronouns on Cantonese/Shanghainese/Hakka speakers, which is another pressure point the West can use to divide China. Chinese characters were came up by the Chinese people to do, among other things, smooth over topolectical differences. I absolutely do not think it was an accident TA propagated.

All this is to say outside of rare cases like Cuba where its social progressivism is truly sincere and was natively sprung forth from their socialist society, most progressivism in the Global South is purposefully build by Western NGOs on sand that is designed to turn the marginalized communities into fifth columnists for the West once the reactionary backlash inevitably happens.

It really is just an extension of fascist ideology abroad. Utilizing the outsiders as a scapegoat is always going to be a part of the toolset, regardless of whatever the west is doing. It's nice seeing Cuba resist this, and I'm only particular disappointed that China is not more supportive of queer folk. I think without true socialist programs running the show it's kind of inevitable that these lines of ideology are adopted as material conditions worsen.

Look up bourgeois excess. People just convinced themselves that this was an issue continued only within “patsoc” circles

I don't know how much of this is just "it's western to be gay" versus a natural reaction to the West cynically criticizing third world countries for their LGBT rights or lack thereof. Probably a mix of both existing cultural conservatism and a reaction to Western propaganda.

Do these people not realise that all this is going to do is make all the educated gays and progressives flee to the west? Brain drain is already bad enough in the global south, long term this is just going to make it even worse. No LGBT or progressive person is going to want to live in a country where they or their friends are illegal, no matter how patriotic they are or how much they love their life at home.

foreign bigotry is america's fault, when you really think about it.

This is horrible.