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PaperclipPerfector  9mo ago (text post)   3956 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 9, 2025

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Again, they aren't mass-executing LGBTQ people or having concentrations camps, they simply don't celebrate it or want it rubbed in people's faces.

Isn't this flatly untrue though? People are imprisoned for homosexuality for many years in many middle eastern countries (Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Dubai, UAE), and executed or whipped in Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia and a few other Muslim countries have a death penalty law on their books for homosexuality, sure, but AFAIK they don’t actually execute people for it except in Iran.

This hasn't been that widespread. We are told 5% of the population belong to these minorities yet there aren't 4 million gay prisoners in Iran. The handfull who end up in prison seem to either be agitators, pedofiles or people who are doing their best to provoke the system.

If the only ones imprisoned are agitators, shouldn't we have examples of Iranian men who are undeniably fucking other men, yet weren't imprisoned for it?

Well, I guess this place is called the Motte for a reason! What a massive change of tack. If we accept that the middle east is actually secretly tolerant of homosexuality, but uses its anti-gay laws merely as an instrument of authoritarian rule to arrest agitators, well okay then. But that still sounds just as much like something a liberal should oppose (regardless whether or not the country in question has pride parades).

But that still sounds just as much like something a liberal should oppose

Yes, but now the difference between liberals (who is not fine with using anti-X laws merely as an instrument of authoritarian rule to arrest agitators) and progressives (who do this constantly, that's why they really like anti-X laws) becomes extremely important.

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