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submitted 1 year ago by squirrel to c/lgbtq_plus

Article by Reuters: A coalition of the right-wing PP and the fascist Vox parties has lifted most legal protections for LGBT+ people, legalising discrimination and abuse on the basis of sexual and gender identities.

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[-] pruneaue@infosec.pub 43 points 1 year ago

"Under the reform, discriminating against workers on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity is no longer a punishable offence. It is also no longer a punishable offence to beat a person without causing injury on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity."

WHAT

[-] rynzcycle@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago

BRB, gotta go beat some straight people in Madrid.

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"without injury" is probably defined so any physical attack that doesn't have a broken bone or amputation, e.g. 99% of all assaults that are bruises, lacerations that bleed but heal, etc. wouldn't be "injury". So assaulting a stranger you don't like the look of or beating your child who "isn't right" is now not punishable.

Clearly freedom and righteousness's heart grew 3 sizes this day.

Psychopaths.

[-] Nyfure@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

How do they not have laws against such agression in general, how is it coupled to things at all?
Like dont hurt anyone else in general? wtf

[-] 7of9@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago

Rules for assault and domestic violence are a bit of a mess in Spain in general, there's some things that just aren't covered.

[-] squirrel 33 points 1 year ago

Of course, they had to do this right before Christmas: The cruelty is the point.

[-] Knitwear@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Democracy doesn't need to be over thrown when you can just gradually throw it away

Fuck this

[-] Uranium3006@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

The far right must be vanquished

[-] 7of9@startrek.website 15 points 1 year ago

It's worth noting that Madrid, having been the center of the Franco regime, has a right-leaning populace and the Vox party has pushed things further in a similar fashion to the Trumpistas in the US.

I believe this is lashing out because the central government is socialist and has made recent decisions which the fascists don't like.

[-] leigh 10 points 1 year ago

So you can legally beat us up there as long as you don’t “injure” us. A word which is subject to interpretation (at least in English, I don’t know how similar it is in Spanish) but I’m going to guess they mean “doesn’t require professional medical care”. And they label this as human rights being just “partially revoked”.

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