The west hijack queer struggle and weaponize them to justify imperialism by advertizing some of their imperialist institutions as queer so they can call queerphobe any crackdown on said institutions and distract the public’s attention away from the fact that it’s about fighting imperialism.
In response, the actual genuine queerphobes in nations dealing with western imperialism use pink imperialism’s weaponization of queer struggle against actual queer struggle by pretending that queer struggle is a genuine part of western imperialism and saying that those are western values that the imperialists are trying to impose on them.
This is a common trope of middle eastern queerphobic rethoric, they say all the time that the west is trying to impose homosexuality on the muslim world.
I heard from someone on here that it’s also a big reason why china is still very lacking in lgbt rightscompared to the 4 others ML countries: chinese boomers distrust the lgbtq+ movements because they have seen first hand the west weaponizing it against china, most notably with the west’s strategy of sometime using gay bars and other lgbt spaces as base for spying on purpose so that they can screach seeseepee lgbt discrimination when china crackdown on them.
Because pink imperialism generate queerphobia.
The west hijack queer struggle and weaponize them to justify imperialism by advertizing some of their imperialist institutions as queer so they can call queerphobe any crackdown on said institutions and distract the public’s attention away from the fact that it’s about fighting imperialism.
In response, the actual genuine queerphobes in nations dealing with western imperialism use pink imperialism’s weaponization of queer struggle against actual queer struggle by pretending that queer struggle is a genuine part of western imperialism and saying that those are western values that the imperialists are trying to impose on them.
This is a common trope of middle eastern queerphobic rethoric, they say all the time that the west is trying to impose homosexuality on the muslim world.
I heard from someone on here that it’s also a big reason why china is still very lacking in lgbt rightscompared to the 4 others ML countries: chinese boomers distrust the lgbtq+ movements because they have seen first hand the west weaponizing it against china, most notably with the west’s strategy of sometime using gay bars and other lgbt spaces as base for spying on purpose so that they can screach seeseepee lgbt discrimination when china crackdown on them.