They should see that the enemy is clearly the Zionist entity and not the LGBTQIA+ community.
I’m surprised they are struggling to figure that out, like what are they trying to point out here?
Are they attempting to highlight that they are both homophobic and transphobic with this?
Because pink imperialism generate queerphobia.
The west hijack queer struggle and weaponize them to justify imperialism by advertizing some of their imperialist institutions as queer so they can call queerphobe any crackdown on said institutions and distract the public’s attention away from the fact that it’s about fighting imperialism.
In response, the actual genuine queerphobes in nations dealing with western imperialism use pink imperialism’s weaponization of queer struggle against actual queer struggle by pretending that queer struggle is a genuine part of western imperialism and saying that those are western values that the imperialists are trying to impose on them.
This is a common trope of middle eastern queerphobic rethoric, they say all the time that the west is trying to impose homosexuality on the muslim world.
I heard from someone on here that it’s also a big reason why china is still very lacking in lgbt rightscompared to the 4 others ML countries: chinese boomers distrust the lgbtq+ movements because they have seen first hand the west weaponizing it against china, most notably with the west’s strategy of sometime using gay bars and other lgbt spaces as base for spying on purpose so that they can screach seeseepee lgbt discrimination when china crackdown on them.
Russian media is extremely pro Palestine because the movement is inherently anti-US, but they are fascistically chauvinist and incredibly homophobic, racist, transphobic, etc.
It’s a weird double standard that many follow blindly.
This is, unfortunately, just the ugly result of complete societal collapse. US capital destroyed Russia in the 1990s, and the country has still not fully recovered. Look at Ukraine for an even more dramatic example: in just 23 years, it went from a socialist republic to a state ruled by a genocidal and openly fascist government. That modern Russia is as imperfectly progressive as it is is honestly something of a miracle.
You are absolutely correct with your analysis, however I will push back that it is “imperfectly progressive”. Practically any “progressive” actions that they take are practically only done out of pure pragmatism, such as establishing ties with China for capital reasons, or because the act is anti-US, such as with the Palestinian movement.
Further, most progressive elements that remain are vestiges that remain from the USSR, with those things often times being seen as a negative that they are actively trying to get rid of, such as the USSR’s abortion laws. Beyond that, Russia has sadly become incredibly regressive in almost all aspects, and the decline has been a depressing view of the consequences of the fall of the Union.
Modern Russia is not progressive in social terms. They do have all sorts of fundamentalism lurking around. I will say Putin as a whole is responsible for bringing back Russia from death. Many say he brought nationalism and such but i argue, what’s the alternative nowadays. Old Russians are communistic and dead , middle aged Russians are chauvinists and anti commies and younger generations are pro west completely and despise everything about USSR. As a realist I think it’s difficult for eastern block countries to find a common agenda. It’s either fascism or socialism. Russia is exceptional because Putin came from WW2 family. He lost many relatives but he thinks in Christian ways and don’t have a good grasp in Marxist theory. Well, like many middle aged people he also thinks USSR had more negative issues than positives. Russia has a short life span, if it becomes socialist it will live but after Putin if it turns towards fascism. It’s the end of Russia
most people arent struggling to figure it out, most movements are supported by a wide range of people and they dont all agree on everything it is an unfortunate reality that some small percentage of people who are on the right side of history on something are also reactionary on other things, thats just life. And the atrocities carried out by isntreal are so bad that even a lot of reactionaries support Palestine
