▲ 84 ▼ Why Niger explicitly criminalising asexuality is significant to everyone, regardless of identity (www.wearequeeraf.com) submitted 1 month ago by TRAHR to c/lgbtq_plus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 comments fedilink hide all child comments To understand Nigers asexuality criminalisation, we should see this law as part of a bigger – and growing – global trend among conservatives about 'traditional families'
[+] LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (3 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 child) Neocolonialism requires a pseudo-sovereign oppressive regime to be the executor of colonial violence. An egalitarian nation would be more capable at resisting the west, and therefore neocolonial parties sabotage egalitarian regimes and replace them with oppressive regimes, which are weaker and more dependent on neocolonial support to suppress their populations. Consider the EU's "everything but arms" tax scheme, where neocolonial corporations can get a tax benefit if they get their goods from destabilized African nations except when it would build up a weapons industry that could help empower nations to throw off the neocolonial yoke. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago Oh, yeah, I see how you could read that differently from what I intended. I meant that neocolonialism requires oppressive regimes in the same way it requires oil and slave labor. It depends on them, it consumes them, and therefore it engages in proactive measures to acquire them. Your nation being an oppressive regime is not a prerequisite for your nation to become the victim of neocolonialism. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies) [–] psycholocomotor_no2@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 4 weeks ago* I wouldn't defend the law, it's totally unnecessary. I get, though, that it's probably to be expected because the vast majority of Nigeriens are Sunni Muslims and there's just no way a country that religious will be queer accepting. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 child) Neocolonialism requires a pseudo-sovereign oppressive regime to be the executor of colonial violence. An egalitarian nation would be more capable at resisting the west, and therefore neocolonial parties sabotage egalitarian regimes and replace them with oppressive regimes, which are weaker and more dependent on neocolonial support to suppress their populations. Consider the EU's "everything but arms" tax scheme, where neocolonial corporations can get a tax benefit if they get their goods from destabilized African nations except when it would build up a weapons industry that could help empower nations to throw off the neocolonial yoke. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago Oh, yeah, I see how you could read that differently from what I intended. I meant that neocolonialism requires oppressive regimes in the same way it requires oil and slave labor. It depends on them, it consumes them, and therefore it engages in proactive measures to acquire them. Your nation being an oppressive regime is not a prerequisite for your nation to become the victim of neocolonialism. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies)
[+] LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago Oh, yeah, I see how you could read that differently from what I intended. I meant that neocolonialism requires oppressive regimes in the same way it requires oil and slave labor. It depends on them, it consumes them, and therefore it engages in proactive measures to acquire them. Your nation being an oppressive regime is not a prerequisite for your nation to become the victim of neocolonialism. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago Oh, yeah, I see how you could read that differently from what I intended. I meant that neocolonialism requires oppressive regimes in the same way it requires oil and slave labor. It depends on them, it consumes them, and therefore it engages in proactive measures to acquire them. Your nation being an oppressive regime is not a prerequisite for your nation to become the victim of neocolonialism. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] psycholocomotor_no2@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 4 weeks ago* I wouldn't defend the law, it's totally unnecessary. I get, though, that it's probably to be expected because the vast majority of Nigeriens are Sunni Muslims and there's just no way a country that religious will be queer accepting. permalink fedilink source parent