Educating libs through memes (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by ForMyDemons@lemmygrad.ml to c/memes@lemmygrad.ml

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[-] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 6 months ago

Could both these statements not be true? The 1937 Family Law did criminalize homosexuality and label it a bourgeois decadence.

But that doesn’t mean the west was any better if not oftentimes worse.

[-] ForMyDemons@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 6 months ago

Correct, but I dislike that liberals point that out when the Western world has done the same. They are either ignorant of those laws or think liberalism and their politicians are allowed to get away with it. If we confront them, they always say that's "whataboutism."

[-] Red_Scare@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 6 months ago

yeah they always compare the west as it is now with communist countries 50-100 years ago, right after the revolution, in the middle of civil war and famine, encircled by capitalist aggression etc.

unsurprising really, if your analysis by definition doesn't account for material conditions and is purely idealistic, nothing stops you from comparing societies from different time periods, on different stages of economic and technical development, etc.