Trope: Bury Your Gays

Dec 20, 2013 16:31

Russia.

India.

And now Uganda.

Have all decided that simply ignoring their LGBT populations isn't enough; they've all banned and criminalized homosexuality outright (along with most of the Middle East since basically forever, obv). Not simply for practicing "unnatural" acts, whatever that means, but declaring LGBT folk persona non grataWHAT THE ( Read more... )

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thewronghands December 20 2013, 23:37:21 UTC
Yep. This is why I think my girlfriend going there to help HIV positive people there is so brave... and why I won't be visiting her during her stay. I'd only be putting her in danger. Jerks.

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madman101 July 4 2015, 23:08:35 UTC
Get a real LJ life. This guy is an asshole.

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arthur_sc_king December 20 2013, 23:46:00 UTC
I used to totally not get it. Then I read about Jonathan Haidt and the theory of moral foundations. He opines that there are six moral foundations on which we base decisions, and gives some good arguments for how early human evolution may have selected for them.

One of them is sanctity/purity/degradation. The most obvious example of humans using this moral foundation is our overwhelming revulsion towards poop and dead bodies.* And, obviously, evolution would have selected for it; early humans who played around with poop and corpses were likely to catch some nasty disease and die before being able to breed.

When it comes to politics, this is one of the foundations that conservatives rely on (conservatives tend to rely on all six foundations, roughly equally), but which liberals don't bother with (they pretty much stick to care/harm, fairness/cheating, and liberty/oppression, relying very little on sanctity/degradation, loyalty/betrayal, and authority/subversion). And you can see it in the face of someone like Rick Santorum when ( ... )

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achinhibitor December 22 2013, 16:44:24 UTC
But none of this (as far as I can see) is historically abnormal. There's a considerable amount of casual homosexuality in pre-industrial cultures, usually among young men who can't yet get wives. Even in places where it's formally outlawed, the laws against homosexuality seem to have been pretty selectively enforced ( ... )

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madman101 July 4 2015, 23:10:41 UTC
Get a real LJ life. This guy is an asshole.

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toohipanna December 21 2013, 03:11:01 UTC
what do you expect from people who poop in the streets.

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scarybaldguy December 21 2013, 03:14:13 UTC
Russians poop in the streets?

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jordan179 December 21 2013, 04:15:38 UTC
This is one of the consequences of America's current weakness. The West appears to be in decline, and hence non-Western countries are now less concerned with offending Western sensibilities regarding civil rights.

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madman101 July 4 2015, 23:11:24 UTC
Get a real LJ life. This guy is an asshole.

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jordan179 July 5 2015, 14:44:27 UTC
So, are you a bot, or just terribly unimaginative? You've basically made the same comment to every other commentator on this post.

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zfiledh December 21 2013, 05:54:40 UTC
(>.<)

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madman101 July 4 2015, 23:12:08 UTC
Get a real LJ life. This guy is an asshole.

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