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'More in common with the Taliban': Outrage erupts over state GOP's anti-Pride vitriol
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Taliban, with all its problems, took arms in hands and fought a foreing invader with a disgracefull disadvantage on their side in order to free their country. And won. I dont think republicans could ever do something remotely similar
I'm not sure I'd count their country as free...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Afghanistan
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treatment_of_women_by_the_Taliban
And I think persecuting minorities and women in a theocracy is exactly the kind of thing the GOP is successfully doing.
Are you suggesting they had more freedom under american invasion?
Women certainly did. Or do they not count?
Not sure if you're just looking for a fight, but I'm not comparing. I'm pointing out that the Taliban is not an admirable group. I think praising a group that persecutes lgbtq+ people in an lgbtq+ community is really fucking tacky.
Taliban is a very admirable group in their fight against a foreing invader. If you want people there to have a mentality that no longer condems individuals for their sexuality, they need to develop economically first. I think its naive to belive that an agricultural country set back in development many years by a foreing invasion will have any kind of progressive mindset. And no ecomic development will occur under invasion and war. So if theres any chance for a progressive mindset to come for the people there in the future, its path starts with the fight taliban did, even if they are against it themselves.
With women being able to go to school. Yea
It's a mistake to write them off as unable to achieve their political goals through force. That's not something I'd want to test.