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I am queer and those people are dumb as fuck. Sorry, but not sorry.
Two things can be true at the same time. Palestine is a horrible place for us queer folks, and Israel is committing atrocities against the Palestinian population.
I mean it's kinda hard to progress socially when you have been living under aparteid for the last 76 years.
100%. This is why it's important to support Palestinian liberation, and why people pointing out that technically Israel is more LGBT friendly are just downplaying genocide.
A people under constant duress will be incredibly reactionary, and the path out of that mindset is progression, not extermination.
Netanyahu has propped up Hamas for decades in order to separate the West Bank from Gaza. There hasn't been an election in Gaza for 18 years so nobody there had had the opportunity to choose an alternative anyway. Hamas didn't even get the majority of votes in that election. Finally, plenty of people who don't support Hamas, like queer folks and babies, are being indiscriminately murdered by the IDF.
The people in this photo are making a not uncomplicated but ultimately moral stance.
There [hasn't been an election in Gaza for 18 years so nobody there had had the opportunity to choose an alternative anyway.
That's especially crazy about the "Palestinians voted for Hamas". With the median age in gaza a bit below 18 years the majority of Gazans wasn't even alive in the last election. Of the adults about half weren't of voting age during that time.
They're just virtue signalling.
Did I accidentally post on r/conservative?
What kind of person accuses queer people in Seoul of "virtue signalling" for expressing support of Palestine? This isn't the government or a corporation, but genuine people at Pride (in a location btw where it takes a massive amount of courage to be openly queer -- my cousin is from Seoul)
I understand the situation there is horrible, I'm definitely on the side that hopes for a free Palestine like any sensible person, but combining queer and LGBT+ with the situation simply is showing a deeper ignorance.
The situation they're under is entirely separate from the LGBT+ movement, and the violence and oppression LGBT people have faced in Palestine for countless years has been well documented.
These are two different things and it simply makes no sense to combine them together. This is why I'm saying they're simply virtue signalling, using the situation to appear morally at the top despite the two things not being able to coincide together.You can't just bunch up all social issues as one, they have different objectives and intended outcomes.
I don't see how it doesn't make sense unless you are completely clueless about what solidarity means.
Why do you care that someone has juxtaposed them?
Expressing an opinion while queer = virtue signalling?
If that were the case, I'd be doing the same? I don't understand your angle here, it doesn't dismiss my points.
Oh, you had a point? I've just seen a bunch of right-wing ramblings and loaded words with no real meaning