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Starts with a strawman: Instead, sexual freedom became a juridical matter within the nation-state and subsequently a feature of Western cultural identity; in
by smackeyacky 5y ago
Starts with a strawman:
Instead, sexual freedom became a juridical matter within the nation-state and subsequently a feature of Western cultural identity; indeed, it became a so-called “Western value.” Today, sexual freedoms are the benchmark of the civilizational difference between the West and the Rest.
But what does this have to do with the war in Ukraine?"
Why conservative pundits like this guy have to equate "sexual freedom" with female emancipation I have no idea. Like it's the only thing that is given to women when they are allowed to choose their destinies? Absolute idiocy.
- kome 5y agoconservative!? And also, where he equates "sexual freedom" with female emancipation? what article have you read?
- smackeyacky 5y agoThat one. He is a classic, old school communist romanticising Leninist revolution and declaring western cultural expansion some kind of failure, while simultaneously forgetting the premise of his essay which was that western values caused the war in Ukraine, rather than the obvious aggressor nation. He also claims that west vs east recidivism is somehow NATOs fault, which isn't supported by the facts of Putins increasingly oppressive and belligerent regime. In short: he is a "i liked it better before" fantasist, not uncommon amongst conservative communist apologists. No mention of the gulags that revolution required. There is no point celebrating Lenin era LGBTQ social changes that barely lasted a decade. The wests have already lasted 50. What his essay is attempting is equivocation, giving Putin some kind of weird historical justification for murdering Ukrainians. Fuck this guy and all his fellow travellers.
- kome 5y agono, more simply, i think you cannot read and understand the text - but you have a fervid imagination.
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- smackeyacky 5y agoWell then, please explain what you think he means and enlighten rather than make insults that add zero value to the conversation.