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Uganda anti-gay law and the unholy alliance

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Uganda's parliament passed a law with a potential death penalty for homosexuality; a Ugandan MP framed it as: you are either with us or with Western imperialism, dramatizing how sexual conservatism and anti-imperialism have merged.

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As told 10

“You are either with us, supporting our anti-gay legislation, or you are with the Western world.”
“to be antisemitic means to be for the Third World suffering nations and so on. This will be a catastrophe”
“LGBT+ and so on, this is imperialist, neo-colonial attempt to destroy our morality.”

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Uganda's parliament democratically passed a law making homosexual acts potentially punishable by death, justifying it as a struggle against colonialism, an example of antisemitism being assimilated into a similar anti-colonial framing., illustrating unholy alliance,antisemitism as anti-colonialism,false anti-imperialism
Uganda's death-penalty anti-gay law is presented in Putin-style journals as anti-colonialist resistance to LGBT+ imperialist neo-colonialism, a false struggle that demands we set things straight., illustrating era of unholy alliances,false struggles
Uganda's parliament passed the world's most severe anti-homosexuality law (up to death penalty); Ugandan newspapers framed it as anti-colonial resistance: 'LGBT is the way Western imperialism undermines our societies, either you are with us or with the West.', illustrating unholy alliances,anti-colonial rhetoric hijacked by reaction,BRICS logic
Uganda passed the world's strictest anti-homosexuality law (death penalty for the act); the entire parliament voted for it, framing it as resistance to Western colonialism and LGBT as Western decadence. Žižek argues this is the shared ideology of Russia (Dugin), Southeast Africa, Asia, and the European far right, and that sections of the Western left make the mirror-image error of endorsing anything that opposes Europe., illustrating anti-colonialism as alibi for homophobia,ideology,sexuality-gender
Uganda's parliament voted for the death penalty for homosexuality, justified as resistance to 'European decadent imperialist colonizing way of life', an unholy alliance of anti-colonialism and extreme homophobia., illustrating unholy alliances