"we want to break with our colonial past"
embraces ideology originating in former colonial powers
It's not like homophobia (or, say, racism) is unique to western civilizations.
of course not, but the modern African wave of homophobia is very much inspired by Christianity and Islam
It's actually being explicitly pushed by the American far right: https://www.dw.com/en/lgbtq-in-africa-how-the-us-far-right-whips-up-homophobia/a-68562333
The Christian American far right.
Every of these organizations should be banned from Europe, with their leaders and members monitored afterwards like potential terrorists, or European democracies will fall in favor of Seven Mountain Dominion flavored christian fascism.
I have a feeling that the great anti-islam and "cultural christianity" in the atheist movement was a psyop.
I'm tired of Christianity oppressing everyone. We need freedom
Homophobia isn't universal, but it's not an uncommon cultural feature either.
Racism, specifically centering around skin colour and related features, is actually pretty recent and pretty Western. In ancient times they hated over different things. Religion was obviously big in the medieval period, food preferences come up surprisingly often if you go all the way back to clay tablet times.
Raceism, specifically centering around skin colour and related features, is actually pretty recent and pretty Western.
If I may take a guess, it's also because up until historically recently, larger groups of ethnicities didn't know that other such groups existed. To be racist, you need to be aware of people you'd clarify as another race
Nah, people did move around a bit. Herodotus discusses the "Aetheops" (subsaharan Africans) in his Histories, for example. Rome straight up had emperors who we wouldn't consider white.
The real catalyst seems to have been the situation in the New World, where coincidentally black slaves were suddenly cheap and abundant, and the colonisers where much lighter than the natives. It was a convenient worldview, basically.
Ah ok so we now that at least one member of the current leadership is secretly super gay
Hey man, that's not the meaning of "Be gay, do crime" and you know it.
there goes our vaccation which I planned with my bf to spend this spring in Burkina Faso
Miss Thing is not letting any other queens mess with her fierceness up in this mother.
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