Slavery Has Returned to Africa. So what now, leftists? Oh, you want to rush in and liberate those Africans? Establish western values among the people? Hmm, I dunno. Sounds like something a filthy colonizer would do.
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[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (5 children)
Western culture. Our culture. Whatever else could I mean?
Come now, let's have a proposed solution to this pressing problem.
[–]Gracehoper 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago* (4 children)
Ah, "Western" ;)
Historically, these sorts of "pan" cultural movements are rarely successful: pan-Arabism, pan-Africanism, pan-Westernism.
I don't see "Western culture" suddenly uniting in response to slavery or homophobia (not sure which you're talking about now). France and Germany and the UK and the US and Canada are always bickering among themselves.
[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (3 children)
So what are we to do about homophobia in Africa? Intervene? Or be isolationists who let people suffer for no reason. What's your solution?
[–]Gracehoper 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (2 children)
Diplomacy
[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (1 child)
So, bullying then. What a gem you are. Whites lecturing blacks on correct moral behavior, after raiding their villages, putting them in chains, loading them into lethal slave ships and selling them into slavery. You're going to tell them what to do.
Hey racist: Take a long walk off a short pier - preferably while wearing a backpack of lead weights.
[–]Gracehoper 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago* (0 children)
What do you mean by "intervene"? Economic/diplomatic/legal?
It seems the core of your moral agonising is whether the nature of the "intervention" takes away the "agency" of the other; it's not clear to me that diplomatic efforts do this.
I think we both agree that persecuted LGBT refugees have a right to asylum.
These articles might be of interest to you. They're about "Western" diplomatic efforts on behalf of gays: 1, 2
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