Many “students” need to file for a refund of tuition.
This is when ideology turns into a religion.
In some cultures, it’s both legal and socially acceptable to throw faggots from rooftops. We should respect that.
“Malinformation” is true information that, if known, would cause people to possibly not do things the regime wants them to do, like not vote for progressives.
How Palestinians would treat LGBT people is Grade A malinformation, so, it must be censored.
Facts and truth matter little to the deceived pervs of the left. They enjoy loving and caring for their pet snakes until the venomous bites betray them. The emotional feel good deception lasts until then.
What is this gobbledygook? Can anyone translate, please.
It’s very complicated being a Leftist. You have to know which groups to throw under the bus when their government privileges conflict with one another.
HAMAS are secret Sodomites.
And they kill other Sodomites who disclose themselves in public.
How anyone pays to have their kids indoctrinated is beyond me. College is not what it used to be..
Maya Mikdashi WORDS & DEEDS.
“Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies”
Right there is the problem with colleges and universities. What the hell does a student gain from having a degree in that sick twisted worthless subject? All these departments should be shut down and their administrators thrown in a gibbet. /spit
Leftists are delusional.
"Others see the fight for queer rights and anti-colonialism as intertwined because anti-gay laws were first introduced in Palestine by Britain in 1885 - though former colonial powers have since abolished such legislation in their own countries."
I thought (quite wrongly obviously) that professors (even of "queer studies") and journalists would be aware that the area now comprising Israel was part of the Ottoman Empire until the end of WWI, ie prior to 1918.
So, I just had to make a quick immersion in the history of indecency laws in Britain and the Ottoman Empire to see how much the professor and the journalist had misunderstood.
The 1885 law mentioned is a British Law, named the Labouchere amendment. Previous to this amendment homosexuality was only illegal in regards to the act of buggery, for which the punishment was to be kept in penal servitude for life.This changed when Henry Labouchere, Liberal MP for Northampton and strong opponent of homosexuality, introduced Section 11 of the 1885 Criminal Law Amendment Act which made all homosexual acts of ‘gross indecency' illegal. It was under this Act that Oscar Wilde and Alan Turing were convicted and punished for committing homosexual acts.
Did this have anything to do with how homosexuality was perceived in the Ottoman Empire?
No. The Ottoman Empire had made changes to its secular laws in 1858 (sic!). Partly those laws that dealt with indecency or homosexuality were introduced from French (Napoleonic) laws of 1810. This new law has been interpreted as decriminalization of homosexuality in the Ottoman Empire. However, what was definitely a case of reducing the criminality of same-sex acts in France was possibly not the same in the Ottoman state where two legal systems - the secular Ottoman, and the religious Sharia - co-existed.
One scholarly analysis of the legal reforms of the Ottoman state in the mid-19th century comes to the conclusion that the adoption of the French laws increased the penalties for same-sex acts. (Ozsoy: Decolonizing Decriminalization Analyses: Did the Ottomans Decriminalize Homosexuality in 1858?).
However, what needs to be kept in mind is that this concerned the secular legal system. What was more important was that the Ottomans were following the Hanafi school of law, which classes sodomy as a ta'zir crime (misdemeanor) where the penalty fell under the discretion of the state. What has happened since the end of WWI is that (i) the secular state has lost power in many Muslim countries and (ii) that in contrast to the Ottomans those religious schools that have gained the upper hand are those that consider homosexual acts as hadd crimes - ie crimes punishable by death.
In conclusion; the laws enacted in European countries had little effect on how homosexuality was perceived and punished by the Ottomans. The most important facts were to what extent secular or religious laws were adhered to, and what Quarnic interpretation was the leading one.
QED
I'm glad I got to experience life before the present insanity.
If telling the truth is a crime
you might be living in a dictatorship.
I wanted to say “brain dead” people, but it’s really mind dead people. All these two women’s words were the words of many different Leftist intellectual cliques, strung together as so much sound and fury signifying an absence of critical thinking.
And... yet another reason these folks are called “queer”.
‘Homophobic’? A much better word I learned from another FReeper years ago is Homomisia. A revulsion of homos.
Also works for transphobia and islamophobia.
How could Britain have introduced the “very first anti-gay laws” to “Palestine” in 1885 when it was under Turkish rule at that time???
Remember kids:
* Silence is violence
* Speech is violence
* Anything they don’t like is violence, and you’re a fascist for noticing.