“All the great spiritual leaders are dead …. Moses is dead …. Muhammed is dead …. Buddha is dead …. and I’m not feeling so hot myself!” Brother Theodore
For when people say they’re sick of seeing gay stuff everywhere. Suck it up. 4 years. 4 years. And that’s just on the books, it’s legal. It doesn’t stop shitty attitudes, actions, or straight up violence.
4 years only covers being legally allowed to exist and marry
There are still 17 states that have no workplace protection for LGBT+ employees, and 10 state that only have protection if you’re a government employee. That means over half of the states in the U.S. still legally allow LGBT+ discrimination at almost every workplace
You can legally get married in those states and the next day you could legally be fired
On this day, 8 April 2013, former UK Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died. Street parties spontaneously broke out across the country, particularly in working class areas and in former mining communities which were ravaged by Thatcher’s policies.
Her legacy is best remembered for her destruction of the organised workers’ movement in Britain, after the defeat of the miners’ strike of 1984-5. This set the scene for the drastic increase of economic equality and unemployment which occurred in the 1980s. Her government also effectively destroyed social housing, helping to create the situation today where it is unavailable for most people, while private property prices have skyrocketed to a level unaffordable for most young people.
Thatcher also complained that children were being taught that “they have an inalienable right to be gay”, so she introduced the vicious section 28 law prohibiting teaching of homosexuality as acceptable.
In terms of foreign-policy, Thatcher was a powerful advocate for racism, advising the Australian foreign minister to beware of Asians, warning that his country should not “end up like Fiji, where the Indian migrants have taken over”. She hosted apartheid South Africa’s head of state, while denouncing the African National Congress as a “typical terrorist organisation”. Margaret Thatcher was a close personal friend to Chilean dictator general Augusto Pinochet, who was responsible for the rape, murder and torture of tens of thousands of people.
Back in Britain, she backed numerous high-profile child abusers, despite being aware of allegations against them like Sir Peter Hayman, and MPs Cyril Smith and Peter Morrison. And she lobbied for her friend, serial paedophile Jimmy Savile, to be knighted despite being warned about his behaviour by civil servants.
She was eventually forced to step down after the defeat of her hated poll tax by a mass non-payment campaign.
Pictured: Jimmy Savile welcoming Thatcher to hell, reportedly. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1395124427339370/?type=3
