The sole purpose of this community is to discuss Israeli and Palestinian issues. It is not the place for hurling insults, rehashing grudges, or making up history. Any conversation that veers into the "if only your people had" realm will be deleted or locked right away. I started this community in the potentially fruitless hope that we may have a civil conversation about this issue.
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This is, fairly predictably, probably going to be an unpopular post.
And before some bright spark comes in accusing me of being pro-genocide, Israel can get fucked – just because I'm against Palestinian genocide doesn't mean I have to be blind to this shit.
Hopefully people see that they can oppose both Israel's genocide and Islamist homophobia at the same time. There's no obligation to downplay either.
Right. I'm one of those "deluded" queers for Palestine, but even in peacetime, I wouldn't sashay into Gaza City in assless chaps and hope for the best. There's plenty of homophobia in the world, especially wherever there is Islam, and the British obviously did not invent it.
I would still rather try to defeat homophobia with words than watch homophobes (and their innocent children) get murdered by an army which has its own homophobes, for reasons unrelated to homophobia.
The British Empire gets blamed for a lot of things but at some point, it has to be on the population of a country to move things forward.
Sure, Empires introduce laws but if the successor governments keep them in for nearly 100 years...
Guess who also legalized homosexuality... Britain.
Very basic and low quality argument.
Fun fact, Britain also invented concentration camps. So there use by the Nazis is also the British Empire's fault?
Good post op (not sarcasm)