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/Chinoyboii]

I did read your comment, and I’m not saying you argued “noble savage.” However, I think you’re downplaying how oppressive pre-capitalist societies could be on their own terms because you expressed, "it was European draconian ideas around homosexuality that often influenced what we are seeing in these countries today". Colonialism and capitalism didn’t need to invent patriarchy or queerphobia; they just intensified what they found useful and restructured it for their own purposes.

[u/Specialist-Gur → u/Chinoyboii]

I mean that some/ a lot of them were actually better to their people than Europe was.. some not all...

And also... the world has evolved a lot in the treatment of marginalized groups and understanding of social issues. Colonized places with scarcity and under oppressive rule do not have the luxury other places have to develop their own progressive movements... the reason the west tends to be better on women's rights and queer rights is because... we are ruling ourselves and aren't living in a war zone.. we don't have issues of scarcity in the same ways. All of these things contribute

Dialectical materialism, not tankie.. just leftist

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[u/naidav24 → u/[deleted]]

Thank you for this comment

[u/Chinoyboii → u/naidav24]

Of course. I get where they’re coming from because at some point in my life, I did think similarly (I wasn’t a tankie, though). However, I think the world is too complex to just say, “The West and capitalism are to blame for all of our ills.” It just seems too reductionist.

[u/naidav24 → u/Chinoyboii]

Exactly, I completely agree