>>498487>so purity testing nations based on their acceptance of neoliberal sexual ideology makes no senseChiming in to say I completely agree with this, even if I don't agree with everything else you wrote. The "freedom" standards of western liberalism are used as a kind of selective blinder, encouraged as a metric for judging other cultures despite the fact that they are increasingly superficial. At the end of the day, it's a metric by which a country which is economically enslaved by the USA and has little or no sovereign control over its resources, spending, foreign policy, or speech, but puts western liberal values into its legal code can be deemed more "free" than a country which controls its own resources, policy, spending, etc. but where getting fucked in the ass and talking proudly about it is illegal. I personally am not opposed, at all to gay marriage or open homosexuality or anything like that, but I also live in a culture and society where this stuff is normal; and the reasoning, here, for it being normal and accepted is, ultimately, built on top of, or with influence from, a long history of liberal social philosophy and culture. To say that this philosophy and culture is superior and that everyone else must adhere to it simply because I
personally do not disagree with
small parts of it when the economic side of it has genocided, enslaved, murdered, coup'd, robbed, and dispossessed millions is the height of arrogance and just another way to try to enforce cultural hegemony on those who are different, with no proof whatsoever that it would be beneficial to them.