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We had a good thing, you [NONSTRATEGIC] son of a [GUN]! We had theory, we had praxis, we had everything we needed, and it all ran like clockwork! You could have shut your mouth, followed the theory, and made as much communism as you ever needed! It was perfect! But no! You just had to blow it up! You, and your pride and your ego! You just had to be the man! If you'd done your job, known your place, we'd all be fine right now! /j
This is bad. I don't wanna go super parasocial (yes, I have an extremey bad tendency to moralize people and inclination to parasocializing), but this sucks. /srs
I know we try to use LGBT movements as CIA fronts but this doesn't feel like a reaction to that.
The rationale I see floating around is that it's an attempt to mitigate recruitment efforts by ISIS separatists. In any case, it changes very little in day-to-day life since Burkina Faso is a homophobic society anyways. Burkina Faso when it was a French neocolony was about as homophobic as it is now.
I'm not even sure if Sankara himself was cool with queer people. People thinking he was are merely projecting what they want him to be or assuming that just because he combated widespread misogyny that he would be cool with queer people somehow. Can someone find a law that Sankara sponsored or even a speech Sankara made where Sankara gave his support to queer Burkinabe?
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This is the 5th time they have ban homosexuality, still tho it really sucks
Maybe this is the ban that will people will stop being gay forever. You never know until you try it for the 6th time
God fucking damnit
Well it was nice to feel like there was some growing light in the world for a little while there
Looks like my purchasing of tasty salty cashews from them is now 
. Funny that.
Damn last time I checked this had 20 comments, that was fine because there's really not much to say Africa is conservative as fuck on lgbt stuff even in states that are economically progressive or somewhat anti-imperialist, one supports these anti-hegemonic states despite that
you do hate to see it :(
I see it as 2 steps forward one step back. This is where the critical on critical support comes in. Still disappointing for the people of Burkina Faso.
oh for fuck's sake. had such a good going too.
I will probably never see any acceptance of queers around the imperial periphery
:yea:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/19/africa-uganda-evangelicals-homophobia-antigay-bill/
While it looked innovative, it was not the first time such a press conference was creatively planned to spark panic and parade out a person claiming to be ex-gay. It was also not peculiar to Uganda; it is a method that was and continues to be used in both puritanical and evangelical Christianity in countries from Ghana to Kenya and Nigeria.
Bolding mine. While I realize Islam is predominant in Burkina Faso, I'm wondering if these types of campaigns aren't influential.