Big words for a party that’s refusing to run on economic issues (for fear of alienating the doners) and is instead talking about all the horrible things Republicans will do if the get into power.
The bill, passed unanimously in the Duma, prohibits “any event or act deemed to promote homosexuality-online, in film, in books, in advertising or in public.”
In Russia, the workshops I teach would be illegal.
I stand with Russian LGBTQI people.
i am inconsolable
i am in so much pain i can’t even speak coherently about this
actually fuck all of y'all u need to be talking about this. u need to be screaming. u need to stop ur shitty little queer discourses and u need to talk about us
Americans, vote like your life depends on it because if this bill passes it literally will. They’re straight up trying to make it legal to arrest people for existing as LGBT.
If any of your sneering people think “Oh, it’s just the transsexuals; no one cares”, I guarantee you that once they strip rights from us, they’ll just move on up to the next group on the hierarchy, because that is and always has been how fascism works.
The bill being discussed here is H.R.9197 and it goes farther than is being described. This bill isn’t a prelude, it in and of itself tries to, effectively, ban “sexual material” from being viewed by someone under the age of 10. “sexual material” which it defines as anything pertaining to”Any depiction, description, or simulation of sexual
activity, any lewd or lascivious depiction or description of human genitals, or
any topic involving gender identity, gender dysphoria, transgenderism, sexual
orientation or related subjects“. This is an outright assault on all of us in the LGBT community and beyond that would ban us from existing in spaces where children would be expected to be present, or attempting to teach children that we exist so they don’t suffer like many of us did and don’t cause others to suffer.
Do not undersell the seriousness of this bill.
Imagine how this would be used to prevent people from communicating with children in a way that could help the children confirm that they have been sexually harmed by someone.
Imagine how this would be used to prevent children from getting to know their own bodies in healthy and respectful ways so that they could make skillful choices for their own well being.
Imagine how this would be used to gag anybody who could possibly help a child who is being abused and prevent help from ever getting to children whose parents perform indoctrination of intolerance and hate for the first 18 years of a human’s life.
We grown ups are in danger, yes. But the goal could might be to isolate children from any diversity and keep them locked in step with their authoritarian designs.
When Wilfredo Molina arrived in the U.S. from his native Venezuela, he told border agents he wanted to go to Miami but didn’t have an address. They directed him to what he thought was a shelter in midtown Manhattan but turned out to be a gray office building.
“It was a fake building. I didn’t understand what it was,” he said.
Molina was among 13 migrants who recently arrived in the U.S. who agreed to share documents with The Associated Press that they received when they were released from U.S. custody while they seek asylum after crossing the border with Mexico. The AP found that most had no idea where they were being sent — nor were they expected by anyone at the addresses listed on their paperwork.
Customs and Border Protection, which oversees the Border Patrol, did not respond to repeated questions about families and individuals interviewed and the addresses assigned to them.
But the snafus suggest a pattern of Border Patrol agents, particularly in Texas, sending migrants without friends or family in the United States to offices that get no notice. The places often don’t have space to house migrants. Yet because those addresses appear on migrants’ paperwork, important notices may later be sent there.
[…]
“It almost seems as though, at the border, officials are simply just looking up any nonprofit address they can or just looking up any name at all that they can and just putting that down without actually ever checking whether that person has mentioned it, whether there’s beds or shelter at that location, or whether this is even a location that can provide legal assistance,” said Lauren Wyatt, managing attorney with Catholic Charities of New York. “So clearly, this is not the most effective way to do this.”
Replicating Marx’s own distaste for Christian workers’ movements, terrified by this “refloating of a Christian socialism which has been sunk for so many years,” the Parti ouvrier [Workers’ Party] threw itself with crusading zeal into the struggle against Christian socialists (a term French Marxists understandably detested but nonetheless used indiscriminately in relation to both Social Catholics and Christian Democrats). How could the Parti ouvrier not hate a movement that officially adopted the slogan “Religion, Family, Property” -the three institutional evils Guesdists [term for members of the Parti ouvrier) detested most in bourgeois society? Worse yet, Christian socialists quite unashamedly placed their movement under (in their own deferential terms) the “patronage of the superior classes.” [Pope] Leo, after all, had mandated Christian Democrats to defend the rights of property and respect the “class distinctions” that founded every properly constituted state.’ No wonder Christian Democracy’s advocates, no less than its enemies, envisaged the movement as a “rampart against socialism.” Abbe Garnier’s Union nationale -the most widespread and deeply implanted of France’s many Christian Democratic organizations-typically dedicated itself to stopping “the disastrous progress of a socialism that aims to overthrow all the bases of society at once.“Conferences contradictoires, those archetypal fin de siecle arenas of popular political culture, regularly pitted Marxists against Social Catholics such as Garnier, offering their fascinated spectators oratorical contests in which class-collaborationist Christian socialists battled mightily against Guesdist class warriors.
Guesdists challenged the credentials of their interlocutors on such occasions, dismissing their religious message as delusion and self-delusion, denouncing their pretensions to democracy and to Christian socialism as thin camouflage for reaction, attacking their proposals for social brotherhood as a plot to subordinate gullible. workers to scheming capitalists. At the very least, Guesdists mockingly contrasted the Christian Democrats’ pious goal of transforming the dog-eat-dog world of French capitalism into a harmonious Christian commonwealth with their meager achievements in, at the best, mandating seats for tired shop assistants. The Parti ouvrier expected “socialist acts and not just socialist words” from those who identified themselves as Christian socialists.
“A ‘De Profundis’ for Christian Socialism”: French Marxists and the Critique of Political Catholicism by Robert Stuart
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