https://twitter.com/FelineVamps/status/1579660234335092736
The "unification" (annexation really) was literally a step back for LGBT and women's rights in eastern Germany.
Someone with an interest in Rhodesia is a bigger red flag than an actual swastika tattoo I swear to god.
Both are an equal sign that they definitely view non-white people as less than human
Yeah all this does is validate those dumbass Trad Communist performance-artists in their belief that the old wave of communist projects was completely socially conservative and those heckin modern baizuo they/thems of the Western Left arent welcome in our spaces!
I do think it's hilarious why the GDR allegedly legalized homosexuality and began funding gay culture. Supposedly the Stasi sat down and was like "Wow it's a huge security problem that all these homosexuals are subject to criminal proceedings. All the capitalists would have to do is find out someone was gay and then blackmail them to be a spy. What can we do about it?"
And someone's like "What if we legalize homosexuality, fund gay cultural venues, build a bunch of discoes, and sort of just accept and support the whole thing?"
"Brilliant!"
“What if we legalize homosexuality, fund gay cultural venues, build a bunch of discoes, and sort of just accept and support the whole thing?”
Is this Rammstein’s origin story?
One of the few good things about the annexation was that it shamed the BRD into legalising LGBT relationships as it would have been bad optics to criminalise east German LGBT people overnight by imposing BRD laws on them.
Unfortunately, it didn't shame the BRD into abandoning the human rights violation known as the Transsexuellengesetz. Since the annexation, this law that regulates legal gender and name changes and that lags behind DDR legislation on trans rights has been repeatedly ruled to be unconstitutional, but the much-needed replacement for that has just been postponed again. Maybe next summer, we will finally catch up in that regard, although i don't know how much damage TERFs in the SPD will do to the reform until then. This place is actively trying to murder me haha :jokah:
"Stasi State or Socialist Paradise" hammers home how much progress was lost in the "Reunification". The West just stole everything and then destroyed everything they couldn't steal. And then afterward if anyone complained they accused them of having delusional nostalgia.
meanwhile cuba just passing a blank check to the lgbt community and passing almost everything in one go
:fidel-layup:
liberals:
but 10 years slower than usa who didnt pass nearly as much and it isnt even legislated yet :bawllin-sad:
East Germans still don't have the same access to or right to abortion that they had in 1989. Unfortunately like all of the other former communist countries every left of center person in the former DDR was banned from politics and their organizations destroyed so now it's a pretty reactionary place.
