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Being anti- any of the other things you mentioned in your edit is very good reason to be skeptical of a revolutionary project's potential. Those things are all interrelated with class struggle. Even putting the suffering of LGBTs aside, failure to recognize that, being unable or unwilling to discipline your revolution on those matters, is a bad sign.
Don't tell your comrades to shut up about LGBT issues anywhere, seriously.
We are in a contradiction between criticism of LGBT issues and criticism of people in the global south.
I acknowledge that the move is not okay, but I'm tired of white/western leftists denouncing revolutionary governments in the global south because it doesn't fit their standards.
you know, there are a lot of varying critical responses in this thread, but i don't think a single one of them is "denouncing" a revolutionary government in the global south because it doesn't "fit their standards." i see a lot of people disappointed that a promising anti-imperialist force is embracing imperialist bigotries via state force. you just seem interested in infantilizing the people of Burkina Faso on the grounds that their government must be doing this for good reasons, somehow. De jure homophobia. ok dude
Never said it was a good reason, but it was very likely a social and politically driven decision.
In other words, the people there are very likely highly socially conservative and so making this move was more popular than not.
It's not a morally driven thing, so don't put words in my mouth. I don't agree with the move either.
then don't make excuses for it. you're allowed to find it distasteful but understandable and not post about it as if people here are advocating for the NATO invasion of Burkina Faso.
Fair, maybe I could've given a second thought to context as this forum is not what a regular lib would think.