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I mean, maybe they would, but I’m not sure you’ve spent a lot of time with people from the global south if you think that’s even the more likely scenario let alone the probable one. Most immigrants I’ve known, and I’ve known a lot working on construction sites and in retail in high-diversity areas, are pretty socially conservative and religious. Religious values aren’t any less important to them than they are to our domestic fundamentalists.
Sure, a lot of people are bigoted, but the bigots are generally also very right-wing and wouldn’t be interested in joining our cause anyway.
Writing off someone immediately like this is an obstacle to mass movements. Some people just need a little push. Some, a bigger push.
Idk what kind of bubble your girlfriend lives in but the Communist movement in Africa as a whole is objectively socially conservative compared to the West. Most Communist parties still hold the line that lgbt identity is degeneracy born out of capitalist alienation. I think they’re wrong because scientific understanding of these issues points to that theory being a false assumption. I’m not going to tell them to go fuck themselves because of that though. Their struggle is still deserving of my support and collaboration.
It wouldn’t affect them at all, so they’d probably do the decent thing and call people by their pronouns.
Okay, I appreciate you giving them the benefit of the doubt, but come on.
Let me reframe this for you.
You’re a very religious young man, fighting age. You have followed the Quran and the hadiths to the best of your ability. You safeguarded your sister’s chastity from leering goatherders all her life. And then: your family has been killed by western interventionism. You have no support system.
You find yourself in a refugee camp, and a few white people gathered are talking about socialism and defying the west. You listen closely.
You realize that they are referring to each other as deer. At first you assume this is some kind of code, but then you notice that they insist everyone call them deer.
Baffled and disappointed, you lie down on your cot. You listen for the buzz of a drone overhead, and fall asleep because you don’t care anymore.
They probably won’t become a fascist but they might get discouraged and alienated by a bunch of online Westerners dogpiling them for something that seems trivial to them.
