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“But we can’t let this place become known as a gay tourism paradise. Brazil can’t be a country of the gay world, of gay tourism. We have families,” Bolsonaro ad
by notional 6y ago
“But we can’t let this place become known as a gay tourism paradise. Brazil can’t be a country of the gay world, of gay tourism. We have families,” Bolsonaro added
Bolsonaro, a former army captain, has long been notorious for his homophobic comments, once declaring: “Yes, I’m homophobic – and very proud of it.”
Bolsonaro claimed “homosexual fundamentalists” were brainwashing heterosexual children to “become gays and lesbians to satisfy them sexually in the future”.
He doesn't sound very democratic to me.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/26/bolsonaro-accused-of-inciting-hatred-with-gay-paradise-comment https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/26/bolsonaro-accu...
- eli_gottlieb 6y agoA nine-day old greenhorn account is here telling us that LGBTQ+ rights are not only a social good, but the pillar of democracy, and if someone disagrees, they are fundamentally antidemocratic? I'm sorry, but I think you're confusing liberalism with democracy. In a liberal democracy, we usually balance the two, by placing some realm of basic human and constitutional rights outside the realm of democratic political contestation. To say that submitting certain questions to the voters is undemocratic is a contradiction in terms.