Above: supporters of Captain Ibrahim Traoré It’s no coincidence that multiple African countries have begun to carry out unprecedented measures towards breaking from neo-colonial control at the same time when American power has been seeing an acceleration in its decline. At a time when we’re two decades into the process of realignment of global power which started in the 2000s; where the world’s anti-imperialist forces began to regain their strength, while Washington’s criminal actions brought upon it compounding self-destructive consequences.
Good to know. Can you recommend good articles or books to help a person learn more about life and politics within today's Russia and China from their perspective and not a western one? I want to familiarize myself more with both countries and I find it's hard to find a non biased way of doing that.
I’ll be on the lookout for those kinds of resources. I wouldn’t be able to find them by Googling “China LGBT rights,” which would only send me to deceptively framed articles on western NGO pages.
Rainier, I am curious as to what your views are about the recent articles speaking about anti-LGBTQIA views of Russia and China? If the U.S. were to fall, what is to keep these views from taking over here? If they claim to be communist nations, how they can be anti-LGBTQIA? I am just curious how to see these views for a future world where imperialism and capitalism have died.
These countries view the LGBT movement as a trojan horse for imperialist meddling. In their context, the LGBT acronym means something different than it does here.
I mean the movement like most others has been co-opted by liberals but we deserve to have freedom just like any other minority group. I want capitalism to end and communism to rise but only if we're all free to be ourselves.
The obstacles toward equality in these countries will have to be solved with solutions that come from within. In Russia these obstacles are more serious, but crucial context about China is that it doesn’t have a history/paradigm of aggressive oppression towards queer people like there is in the USA. In Chinese society, “coming out” isn’t a big deal like it is here, because sexuality and gender aren’t thought about so much in the first place. And whatever ways China isn’t ideal, it doesn’t have an equivalent of America’s vast anti-queer hate movement.
Good to know. Can you recommend good articles or books to help a person learn more about life and politics within today's Russia and China from their perspective and not a western one? I want to familiarize myself more with both countries and I find it's hard to find a non biased way of doing that.
I’ll be on the lookout for those kinds of resources. I wouldn’t be able to find them by Googling “China LGBT rights,” which would only send me to deceptively framed articles on western NGO pages.
Rainier, I am curious as to what your views are about the recent articles speaking about anti-LGBTQIA views of Russia and China? If the U.S. were to fall, what is to keep these views from taking over here? If they claim to be communist nations, how they can be anti-LGBTQIA? I am just curious how to see these views for a future world where imperialism and capitalism have died.
These countries view the LGBT movement as a trojan horse for imperialist meddling. In their context, the LGBT acronym means something different than it does here.
I mean the movement like most others has been co-opted by liberals but we deserve to have freedom just like any other minority group. I want capitalism to end and communism to rise but only if we're all free to be ourselves.
The obstacles toward equality in these countries will have to be solved with solutions that come from within. In Russia these obstacles are more serious, but crucial context about China is that it doesn’t have a history/paradigm of aggressive oppression towards queer people like there is in the USA. In Chinese society, “coming out” isn’t a big deal like it is here, because sexuality and gender aren’t thought about so much in the first place. And whatever ways China isn’t ideal, it doesn’t have an equivalent of America’s vast anti-queer hate movement.