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There are only 31 countries in the world that respect marriage equality. The fact that Cuba is going to be 32, in front of half of continental Europe is a good

by _dw7s 4y ago

There are only 31 countries in the world that respect marriage equality. The fact that Cuba is going to be 32, in front of half of continental Europe is a good thing for Cuba. > This is the same communist party that put gay people in concentration camps in the 1960s. There are still parents in the USA who are currently sending their kids to gay conversion camps. I don't understand your point.

barelysapient 4y ago
I think the OP is attempting to point out the abysmal record of gay rights in communist systems. Be it communism of the 60's, or modern communism like that practiced in China, gay's are second class citizens...tragically denied the rights enjoyed by heterosexuals.
- _dw7s 4y ago
  > abysmal record of gay rights in communist systems I think things are more nuanced (and interesting) than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism_and_LGBT_rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism_and_LGBT_rights For example: > In 1962, the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic decriminalized same-sex sexual intercourse after scientific research from Kurt Freund led to the conclusion that homosexual orientation cannot be changed. Meanwhile, in USA: > In 1962 Illinois adopted the recommendations of the Model Penal Code and thus became the first state to remove criminal penalties for consensual sodomy from its criminal code,[7] almost a decade before any other state. There is an abysmal record of gay rights across all parts of the political spectrum, including using sexual orientation as a political tool of oppression. There's nothing special about communism.
  - cuteboy19 4y ago
    Presumably getting purged for being "Trotskyist-zionist-titoist-bourgeois-nationalist traitors" is considered a better option than being purged for being gay? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak_Socialist_Republic#Politics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak_Socialist_Repub...
    - decebalus1 4y ago
      I mean technically you can choose to be a `Trotskyist-zionist-titoist-bourgeois-nationalist` traitor or any other flavor of traitor, but you can't really choose who you're attracted to.

by _dw7s 4y ago

barelysapient 4y ago

I think the OP is attempting to point out the abysmal record of gay rights in communist systems. Be it communism of the 60's, or modern communism like that practiced in China, gay's are second class citizens...tragically denied the rights enjoyed by heterosexuals.

_dw7s 4y ago
> abysmal record of gay rights in communist systems I think things are more nuanced (and interesting) than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism_and_LGBT_rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism_and_LGBT_rights For example: > In 1962, the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic decriminalized same-sex sexual intercourse after scientific research from Kurt Freund led to the conclusion that homosexual orientation cannot be changed. Meanwhile, in USA: > In 1962 Illinois adopted the recommendations of the Model Penal Code and thus became the first state to remove criminal penalties for consensual sodomy from its criminal code,[7] almost a decade before any other state. There is an abysmal record of gay rights across all parts of the political spectrum, including using sexual orientation as a political tool of oppression. There's nothing special about communism.
- cuteboy19 4y ago
  Presumably getting purged for being "Trotskyist-zionist-titoist-bourgeois-nationalist traitors" is considered a better option than being purged for being gay? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak_Socialist_Republic#Politics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak_Socialist_Repub...
  - decebalus1 4y ago
    I mean technically you can choose to be a `Trotskyist-zionist-titoist-bourgeois-nationalist` traitor or any other flavor of traitor, but you can't really choose who you're attracted to.