New law in Burkina Faso bans homosexuality (www.lemonde.fr)
from Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 02 Sep 07:21
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betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world on 02 Sep 07:26 next collapse

Hey man, that’s not the meaning of “Be gay, do crime” and you know it.

flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz on 02 Sep 08:24 next collapse

  • “we want to break with our colonial past”

  • embraces ideology originating in former colonial powers

Laser@feddit.org on 02 Sep 08:34 collapse

It’s not like homophobia (or, say, racism) is unique to western civilizations.

flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz on 02 Sep 09:30 next collapse

of course not, but the modern African wave of homophobia is very much inspired by Christianity and Islam

NotSteve_@piefed.ca on 02 Sep 13:29 collapse

It's actually being explicitly pushed by the American far right: https://www.dw.com/en/lgbtq-in-africa-how-the-us-far-right-whips-up-homophobia/a-68562333

CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org on 02 Sep 15:01 collapse

The Christian American far right.

CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org on 02 Sep 15:00 collapse

Homophobia isn’t universal, but it’s not an uncommon cultural feature either.

Raceism, specifically centering around skin colour and related features, is actually pretty recent and pretty Western. In ancient times they hated over different things. Religion was obviously big in the medieval period, food preferences come up surprisingly often if you go all the way back to clay tablet times.

Laser@feddit.org on 02 Sep 15:11 collapse

Raceism, specifically centering around skin colour and related features, is actually pretty recent and pretty Western.

If I may take a guess, it’s also because up until historically recently, larger groups of ethnicities didn’t know that other such groups existed. To be racist, you need to be aware of people you’d clarify as another race

CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org on 02 Sep 15:15 collapse

Nah, people did move around a bit. Herodotus discusses the “Aetheops” (subsaharan Africans) in his Histories, for example. Rome straight up had emperors who we wouldn’t consider white.

The real catalyst seems to have been the situation in the New World, where coincidentally black slaves were suddenly cheap and abundant, and the colonisers where much lighter than the natives. It was a convenient worldview, basically.

smokinliver@sopuli.xyz on 02 Sep 10:07 next collapse

Ah ok so we now that at least one member of the current leadership is secretly super gay

OrangeScentedFish@discuss.tchncs.de on 02 Sep 14:18 collapse

Miss Thing is not letting any other queens mess with her fierceness up in this mother.