The Canadian government warns that some US states have enacted laws that may affect LBGT people.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/2089998

Archived version: https://archive.ph/X5D30
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230830081318/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66654134

        • silent_water [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          the relevant states have made a legal push to criminalize being queer in public

                • silent_water [she/her]
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                  1 year ago

                  legal and extralegal actions by the police are both effectively legal in the US because we effectively don't prosecute police. as the laws illegalize queerness, what actions the police are permitted to take expands.

                  • HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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                    1 year ago

                    "Effectively legal" is not remotely the same thing as "legal". Do the cops kill all sorts of people unjustly? Yes. That's not the conversation we are having right now. The conversation we are having pertains to being queer in America and it's supposed dangers. And not just "dangerous" but dangerous to the extent that a country issues a warning to a group of people about literally just entering an entire country of 300 million people.