• WrongOnTheInternet [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    13 days ago

    that the enclaves of greatest queer/nuerodiverse safety are all in the west

    Queer and neurodiverse identities had a range of socially acceptable positions across many societies until the last couple of hundred of years - thanks to the West.

    The west literally put gay, trans and neurodiverse people in extermination camps.

    Forced sterilisation of people with disabilities is still legal in much of Europe. You can look up the advocacy around the 2020 Spain ban for some awful stories.

    • 389aaa [it/its]@hexbear.net
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      13 days ago

      I am very much aware of that. I am speaking of the present, I don’t really care about what happened hundreds of years ago on this issue - and frankly people have a habit of being very rosy about those ‘socially acceptable positions’, they still far more often than not forced non-conformative individuals out to the fringes of society, or they provided a few acceptable boxes that one would still be shunned and scorned for acting outside of.

      I am interested in liberation, not the expansion in the available amount of ‘socially acceptable positions’, I want the dissolution of the concept of a ‘socially acceptable position’.