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Re:Discord Meme Group Is at the Center of Uproar over Leaked... by WatchDog on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @10:53PM (#35550304)
I’m well aware of the limitations with the left-right political abstraction. Every individual issue has varying levels of support among traditional political groupings, but I think it’s fair to say that issue of advancing the interests of LGBT people, is overwhelmingly an issue associated with a left wing political disposition.
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Re:Discord Meme Group Is at the Center of Uproar over Leaked... by skissane on Thursday April 13, 2023 @01:53AM (#35551557)
> but I think it’s fair to say that issue of advancing the interests of LGBT people, is overwhelmingly an issue associated with a left wing political disposition.

Some truth in that, in Western countries right now, but less so historically or globally. Stalin re-criminalised homosexuality in 1934, and in Russia even today you can find far-left people whose views on LGBT issues are largely indistinguishable from those of the far-right. I’m sure some are going to argue those people “aren’t really left”-but unapologetic Stalinists really are far-left not far-right, and the anti-LGBT stuff is just their following in Stalin’s own footsteps. There are heaps of Western right-wingers who are far more LGBT-friendly than the average Russian Stalinist

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