Even if we assume that asylum applicants claiming to be in fatal danger at home in the Third World due to being gay are actually gay, we can safely assume that the level of discrimination they do suffer as a result is usually not fatal or even significant. Severe persecution of homosexuality is more of an exception than the norm even in these areas, as far as I know. And yet the EU authorities generally accept these claims or at least do not expel such applicants.
When applying the same loose standards to Ukrainian male refugees who would be conscripted at home were they repatriated, then yes, we can safely assume that, in the circumstances the government will be putting them in, they will not be leaving the army until they die or get crippled. They will be, in effect, sent to be blown up in some futile operation. This NAFO notion that meat grinder tactics are totally alien from noble Westernized Ukrainians who share zero cultural similarities with the Moskal is frankly laughable and cringe.
Botond173
24d ago
All those great speeches about liberalism and the banality of evil just to end up here again.
This sort of BS was already on display when the EU banned Russian tourists from its territory. Some Baltic or Finnish girlboss politician declared that visiting Europe is a privilege, not a right - and this was coming from the same ruling clique that engineered the refugee crisis in 2015.
Botond173
24d ago
I think it's as reasonable a take as the claims of the asylum seekers about being gay etc. usually are.
Botond173
24d ago
On the one hand, I am all for my taxes paying for Ukrainian weapons for as long as Ukraine cares to fight Russia.
I see various commenters repeating this claim. Have they considered the high probability that the causality is the other way around?
Botond173
25d ago
The feminist Kafka trap in this context means to me that an entire cluster of feminist narratives is preconstructed in a way to ensure that if a non-feminist man decides to engage in discussion with them there can be no possible outcome other than him being at fault or him being wrong or him being part of the problem.
Another concept similar in effect and purpose is the narrative of white fragility, for example.
Botond173
25d ago
I think it's fair to say that the AIDS crisis has long disappeared as a culture war issue.
Botond173
25d ago
I should mention that we had a discussion on it about a year ago. Fun times.
https://www.themotte.org/post/1121/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/240829?context=8#context
Botond173
25d ago
I’d argue the overall situation is even worse because a) the leftist promoters of said social changes either denied that such negative consequences will take place or simple remained silent on this matter because they were aware that the majority will be either hostile or ambivalent towards these changes b) the long-term negative consequences that social conservatives predicted were in fact worse than this commie blogger makes it out to be and were still right in the end.
Botond173
27d ago
Their entire narrative on this is constructed to act as a Kafka trap. If you as a man try following their advice, you already lost.
Botond173
27d ago
So I’ve read the discussion. Maybe I just wasn’t paying enough attention but it seems to me that nobody mentioned the obvious elephant in the room. The old farts in leadership positions in either mentioned party obviously seem hesitant to recruit or select 40-somethings or 50-somethings as candidates for higher positions because they’re afraid of them turning out to be rabid ideologues of various stripes incapable and/or unable to make compromises, and/or weirdoes that are not presentable to normies and are prone to cause scandals, and if there are actually not such people themselves then they’re likely to be surrounded by such staffers and advisors etc.
Again, have you considered the possibility that to the extent Ukrainian soldiers keep defending their positions – which in itself is not sufficient to win the war, to be sure –, they are largely doing so under the assumption that not only will NATO keep supporting them but will in fact escalate the war should the defense positions collapse?
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