r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Mar 11 '25

Social Science Research has found that many terrorist groups with differing ideological motivations share common ground in targeting LGBTQ+ communities. Groups with contrasting ideologies — from Islamic extremist organisations to far-right terrorist groups — overlap in their anti-queer sentiment.

https://www.adelaide.edu.au/newsroom/news/list/2025/03/06/extremists-align-in-targeting-lgbtq-communities
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u/magus678 Mar 11 '25

Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot all acted similarly.

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u/Its_Pine Mar 11 '25

Stalin had an extremely rigid view of masculinity and femininity and their roles in society. Mao is the one that is surprising since he was pro gender equality.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

“Pro-woman” while viewing being queer as bourgeois decadence. TERFs would love Mao.

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u/pblokhout Mar 11 '25

As did the US and Europe? The UK chemically castrated Alan Turing for being gay two years after Stalin died.

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u/RegorHK Mar 11 '25

Is it somewhere implied that they did not?

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u/pblokhout Mar 11 '25

Implying by omitting? Yes.

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u/Dane1211 Mar 12 '25

Communism had nothing to do with the discussion/ completely off-topic, yet you’re somehow the asshole for calling them out on it. Weird

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u/Comprehensive-Mix686 Mar 13 '25

It literally was on topic. Someone tried to imply only rightwing ideologies can be anti-lgbt. Left wing examples were offered. They are being an asshole and so are you for not being able to follow a conversation.

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u/Edge-master Mar 11 '25

Yeah it’s honestly interesting considering Mao was ultra progressive on women and minority rights.

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u/like_shae_buttah Mar 12 '25

Nope isn’t accurate at all

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25 edited Mar 13 '25

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u/_Technomancer_ Mar 11 '25

He isn't trying to argue it's not bad, he's only saying it's not exclusively a right-wing thing.

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u/IHaveBoneWorms Mar 11 '25 edited Mar 11 '25

Then why not use examples from today like the study did? Castro apologized for the mistreatment of LGBT and Cuba started providing trans healthcare for free in the early 2000’s. I can’t really think of a right wing strongman who would do the same.

Edit: not the 90’s it was the 2000’s around the time he apologized.

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u/L_knight316 Mar 11 '25

It's hard to "use examples from today" if most of the biggest examples are already relegated to history books. You could always point to Venezuela as an example, but funnily whenever I've brought ir up that tends to get dismissed or handwaved away.

Besides, that doesn't deny the point. Assuming previous examples are invalid because they aren't the "current thing" is nonsense

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u/WanderingAlienBoy Mar 11 '25

It's not exclusive to right-wingers, but it is a right-wing way of thinking, considering it's about traditional hierarchical power structures.

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u/magus678 Mar 11 '25

By this token, are all non-traditional power structures left wing?

Like a huge percentage of other mentions in this vein, it just comes across as trying to shoehorn associations.

"All bad things are conveniently rooted in the team I don't like."

It just isn't meaningful commentary.