• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    How about this: my way of thinking is how people think about the subject in The Netherlands, the most tolerant nation in Europe and for example the first to legalize gay marriage (in fact one of my English colleagues when I lived there had moved there exactly to be able to tie the knot with his partner, as it was still not legal in Britain back then).

    Their whole take on sexual orientations is that “it’s all normal” and it works spectacularly well: this is a country were the first really successful Far-Right Leader of this century - Pim Furtijn - was overtly and openly gay since the very start and nobody batted an eye about it - were else in the World would the leader of the god damned Far-Right be gay and nobody cares and he’s very successful?

    Meanwhile what I’ve seen when I lived there in places like Britain which practice the Identity Politics take on this is a neverending fight.