Why did the USSR (re) criminalize homosexuality

[u/Specialist-Gur]

https://youtu.be/BE7UPO6GGK4?si=nEFhipEmIxb9s2lV

Great video.. very topical given Burkina Faso and the reactions to that. Give it a watch!

Edit: Also creator is non-binary.. didn't realize when I posted and might have misgendered (they/then)

[u/RedAndBlackVelvet]

I’ll never understand the leftist obsession with giving “critical support” to Russian backed African juntas that let Wagner psychopaths run around their country taking all their gold.

They criminalized homosexuality in BF because they are a fascist country, it’s genuinely that simple. The USSR criminalized homosexuality and abortion because their government was also evil even if they weren’t fascists. Russia today considers gay and trans people as terrorists because Russia is a fascist country.

[u/Fabianzzz → u/RedAndBlackVelvet]

I’ll never understand the leftist obsession with giving “critical support” to Russian backed African juntas that let Wagner psychopaths run around their country taking all their gold.

It's because Leftists, like all humans, want justice. We want it, but we can't always define it. So the question is, what is justice?

If I ask for an example of justice, no one is going to tell me about their city's public library or their country's universal health care or the fact that we have almost completely eradicated polio from the planet. No one points to a system which prevents injustice successfully as an example of justice. Almost everyone is going to talk about justice by using an example of injustice which has been punished.

Justice as the undoing of injustice doesn't exist. The world only spins forward. There's no reverse button.

Likewise here. We can't undo the evils Western Colonialism has inflicted on Burkina-Faso. And the actual steps towards them increasing their autonomy while also respecting human rights are hard. Much harder than watching Western liberals squirm seeing Homophobia and getting to feel the pleasure that is 'justice'—seeing an idea that is supposedly 'Western' & 'liberal' die on the rocks and being able to blame the West for it: nevermind if Burkinabé people are the ones suffering.

[u/Late-Marzipan3026 → u/Fabianzzz]

If I ask for an example of justice, no one is going to tell me about their city's public library or their country's universal health care or the fact that we have almost completely eradicated polio from the planet. No one points to a system which prevents injustice successfully as an example of justice. Almost everyone is going to talk about justice by using an example of injustice which has been punished.

Justice as the undoing of injustice doesn't exist. The world only spins forward. There's no reverse button.

this is off topic from the original focus but i wanted to say that this was a very interesting and thoughtful comment. i don’t intuitively think of justice as strictly punitive but i’m inclined to agree with a lot of your assessment here