It’s fun to laugh at “Queers for Palestine” slogans but it’s not true that people who hold them “don’t know” how gays are treated in Palestine. They know very well. And they have their own explanation that, to them, justifies their position completely. We are making a mistake in not finding out what it is.
The theory which “gays and feminists for Palestine” have embraced is that a dislike of gays, racism, sexism, economic inequality, and all other bad things were invented and imposed by evil, Western, white settler-colonialism on good, pure, egalitarian indigenous populations. If Palestinians kill gays it’s because they spent so much time under Western control that they forgot their original pro-gay beliefs and absorbed Western “hate”.
Stupid as this all sounds, this is what is taught in US schools to children. We should pay attention because all of those young people with green hair and nose rings who march for Palestine have been taught since kindergarten about the paradise of freedom and equality that existed among “indigenous communities” before “Western colonialism” perverted them.
This explanation of history was initially created by the philosopher of the Enlightenment Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Much later, it was adapted for the US education system by Howard Zinn. And now it’s the only version of history kids are taught.
If you didn’t know all this, the real dupe isn’t a queer trans feminist marching in support of Hamas but you.
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