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‘Child abuse’: Washington Post writer blasted for arguing
children should be exposed to ‘kink’ & BDSM at Pride
30 Jun, 2021 13:38
The Washington Post has been criticized for publishing an article which argued that children should be exposed to leather and BDSM fetishes at LGBT Pride events.
In an article on Tuesday titled “Yes, kink belongs at Pride. And I want my kids to see it,” writer and former sex worker Lauren Rowello wrote about taking her children to a Pride parade five years ago. She said they became confused at the sight of a “bare-chested man in dark sunglasses,” suspenders, and a “leather thong” who was being “spanked playfully by a partner with a flog.”
If you can't see anything wrong with this, please give your children up for adoption to a sane person!!!
Though many in the LGBT community have argued against children being exposed to such sexualized elements of Pride, Rowello claimed that the experience was a good thing.
“When my own children caught glimpses of kink culture, they got to see that the queer community encompasses so many more nontraditional ways of being, living, and loving,” she declared, arguing that parents “should hope” that their kids “encounter kink when they attend” Pride because “children who witness kink culture are reassured that alternative experiences of sexuality and expression are valid.”
So, did you ask your children what they thought and they answered that they were reassured that alternative experiences of sexuality and expression are valid? Seems to me that it would simply terrify girls of any sexual experience, and encourage boys to brutalize girls or other boys, for that's a valid experience, right?
The article received heavy criticism on social media, with critics branding Rowello’s call for children to be exposed to adult behavior “child abuse,” “predatory,” and the “bottom of the barrel.”
“This is what she’ll say out loud. Imagine how far she’s really willing to go,” commented one woman on Twitter, while another user declared that the writer’s children “should be removed by child protective services.”
It is not the first time that a news outlet has published such an argument, with others – including GQ in 2019 – publishing similar defenses of “kink” at Pride.
In a May article for the Independent, however, writer Skylar Baker-Jordan argued that such displays in public should not be tolerated because they fail to obtain the consent from those around them.
“You may have no problem parading your sex life down North Halsted in Chicago or through Trafalgar Square in London, but others might not be so willing to participate in your fetish or to even see it,” Baker-Jordan explained, noting that “kink and BDSM are not sexual orientations, but rather sexual preferences” which should remain in a private setting.
How dreadful that WaPo seems fit to publish such sickening ideas - promoting child sexual abuse and rape culture. I'm horrified by the quality of writers that keep showing up in America's 'great' journals. They seem determined to rush their way along the road to Sodom.
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Some Western children are taught that Jesus was bisexual as part of
‘aggressive LGBT propaganda,' claims Russian Foreign Minister
28 Jun, 2021 09:25
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attends a joint news conference with Guatemalan Foreign Minister Pedro Brolo Vila following their meeting in Moscow, Russia. © Sputnik
Schoolchildren in a number of Western countries are taught that Jesus was bisexual, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov claimed on Monday, accusing the West of an attack on “the genetic code of the planet's key civilizations.”
Writing in Moscow daily Kommersant, Lavrov expressed his opinion that the so-called “rules-based world order” is a “neo-colonial” policy that imposes Western values on countries around the world, including when it comes to moral and religious ideas.
And frequently really bad moral and religious ideas.
“Apart from encroaching on international law, the ‘rules’ concept also manifests itself in attempts to encroach on the very human nature,” the foreign minister wrote. “In a number of Western countries, students learn at school that Jesus Christ was bisexual.” He did not specify any particular country for his claim. And there are no obvious examples to back up his assertion.
Search this blog for "Church of Sweden" for more examples.
According to Lavrov, attempts by what he calls “reasonable politicians” to “shield” children from “aggressive LGBT propaganda” are met with protest.
“All world religions – the genetic code of the planet’s key civilizations – are under attack,” he wrote.
The senior diplomat also accused the US of state intervention in the Church’s affairs, slamming Washington for “openly seeking to drive a wedge into the Orthodox world.” According to Lavrov, the Orthodox Church is a “powerful spiritual obstacle” for the liberal idea of “boundless permissiveness.”
There is no doubt whatsoever that the LGBTQ lobbies around the world are doing their best to destroy Christian churches.
The latest article is not the first time in recent weeks that the foreign minister has accused the West of imposing its values on the rest of the world. Earlier this month, he said the “so-called values preached by the West are not shared by many other states.”
When it comes to international relations, Lavrov accused the West of deliberately refusing to spell out the rules “it purports to follow” and offering no explanation as to why they are needed. He was referring to the American penchant for promoting a so-called “rules-based International order,” in which it sets the parameters. This runs contrary to international law, in Moscow’s view.
“The beauty of these Western ‘rules’ lies precisely in the fact that they lack any specific content,” he explained. “When someone acts against the will of the West, it immediately responds with a groundless claim that ‘the rules have been broken’ (without bothering to present any evidence) and declares its ‘right to hold the perpetrators accountable.’”
Turkish government quits ‘hijacked’ treaty aimed at
preventing violence against women
1 Jul, 2021 11:20
Turkey has formally left an international treaty intended to prevent violence against women, months after announcing plans to exit the agreement over concerns it had been “hijacked” and was no longer compatible with family values.
The nation’s official departure from the agreement comes after a last-ditch court appeal aimed at halting Turkey’s withdrawal was rejected by a three to two ruling against reversing the government’s decision.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used an executive order in March to pull his country out of the Istanbul Convention, known formally as the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence. Since that decision, the executive order has faced legal challenges seeking to prevent the country’s withdrawal from the treaty.
Despite the court’s refusal to block Erdogan’s action, the president of the Federation of Turkish Women’s Associations, Canan Gullu, declared that the organization will “continue our struggle,” warning that “Turkey is shooting itself in the foot with this decision.”
The federation warned that quitting the treaty has made women and other vulnerable individuals reluctant to seek assistance, which, when combined with the Covid pandemic and economic difficulties in the country, has caused a rise in domestic violence.
Turkey’s president has rejected claims that exiting the agreement will risk the safety of vulnerable individuals, claiming that “withdrawal from the convention will not lead to any legal or practical shortcoming in the prevention of violence against women.”
Agreement hijacked by LGBTQ?
The Istanbul Convention, which was agreed in 2011 and signed by 45 countries as well as the EU, committed the nations to work to prevent domestic abuse and promote equality within their borders. Turkey’s government claimed, however, that the agreement had been “hijacked” by individuals who were seeking to “normalize homosexuality,” making it incompatible with Ankara’s family values.
Prior to Thursday’s exit from the treaty, US President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen condemned the move, arguing that “women deserve a strong legal framework to protect them.”
If that's the case then perhaps you should stop letting the LGBTQ lobby invade women's rights. They are not the same!
Spreading 'human rights' at the tip of a bayonet: the LGBT agenda
has now become a tool in Western foreign policy across the globe
1 Jul, 2021 12:49
By Glenn Diesen, Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway and an editor at the Russia in Global Affairs journal. Follow him on Twitter @glenndiesen
When it comes to issues of 'human rights' and individual liberties, every country in the world takes a different stance. Culture, religion, and nationality all play their roles, but now it's clear the West wants to change this.
On Tuesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tweeted a picture of the rainbow pride flag raised outside the State Department in Washington, writing that the commemoration of two major LGBT events “reminds us how far we’ve come – and how much more we need to achieve, at home and worldwide.” The key word here is “worldwide.”
As the West elevates LGBT issues to be the highest measure of morality, reorganizing its culture accordingly, it begs the question – how will this manifest itself in foreign policy? Values are deployed as an effective instrument in Western power politics, with liberal democracy held up as a hegemonic norm that allows countries like the US to lead the world and exempt themselves from international law.
Even the CIA is rebranding itself now as an organization guided by the advocacy of LGBT rights, which is a clear indication that the celebration of ‘our’ righteous values will soon be expressed as derision and attack on the ‘other’.
What is the difference between a ‘values-based’ foreign policy and a civilizing mission designed to undermine the sovereignty and cultures of other states? In the post-Cold War era, the West explicitly legitimizes hegemony, hierarchies, and sovereign inequality in the defense of universal liberal democratic values. Is the world heading towards a woke form of imperialism?
Woke values as a hegemonic norm?
Ideologies tend to appeal to grand ideals such as freedom and reason, yet at the same time they can divide the world into good versus bad – leaving little room for freedom or reason.
An open and democratic debate is missing regarding the extent to which modern liberal values are universal. It is, for example, reasonable to ask whether gender reassignment surgery or hormone treatment for children is a universally held value spanning all cultures, and how different states balance parental consent and involvement.
It also seems reasonable to discuss whether people born male should be allowed to compete in sports as women, and the impact this would have on women’s sports. Ideology has reduced these discussions to love versus hate, which suggests that dissent is impermissible. Herein lies the power of ideology that is too seductive to keep out of foreign policy.
Hungary recently passed a law that banned the promotion of LGBT lifestyles to children. Its prime minister, Viktor Orban, argues that he has previously been a strong promoter of gay rights, and this law is intended to protect children and parents from sexual material. As the EU deems this to be an issue of universal values, any nuanced discussion was skipped and it instead moved straight on to talking about punishment.
Mark Rutte, the prime minister of the Netherlands, stated: “My goal is to bring Hungary to its knees on this issue” and called for expelling Hungary from the EU. The French president argued that Brussels should show “no weakness” in facing down Hungary. No sense of irony was apparent as the EU condemned Hungary for “authoritarianism.” The ideological mantra of ‘diversity and inclusion’ ironically accepts no diversity of values for thousand-year-old cultures, and fails to include states with compatible values.
Russia versus the West
Throughout history, the West aimed to prove its civilizational superiority by comparing itself to supposed Russian barbarism. For centuries, ethnicity was at the center as civilized 'Europe' was contrasted with 'Asiatic' Russia. The purported opposite of Western freedom and civilization was this Eastern slavery and barbarism, which gradually became a fundamental part of the liberal ideology.
Through this prism, Russia has been allowed to play two roles: either a lowly apprentice of Western civilization, or a counter-civilizational force that must be contained or defeated.
In the early 18th century, Peter the Great established Russia as a great power and initiated a cultural revolution to Europeanize his country. The Western Europeans applauded Peter for adopting the role as the ‘student’ who would civilize Russia, according to European standards.
In the early 1990s, Russia aimed yet again to ‘return’ to Europe by adopting capitalism and a form of democracy. The West again applauded Moscow’s acceptance of the teacher-student relationship, although it rejected the inclusion of Russia in the European security architecture to any extent that would entail sovereign equality.
The rejection of the role as a civilizational second fiddle to the West, and the implicit sovereign inequality that would go with it, has once more entailed a return to containment and confrontation. Moscow therefore remains skeptical of any foreign policy framed as a civilizing mission.
Liberal authoritarianism
The West’s commitment to a ‘values-based’ international system has since meant artificially reorganizing and propagandizing all politics as a competition between liberal democracy and authoritarianism. International law, with equal respect for states, is dismantled and replaced with the so-called ‘rules-based international system’. This is portrayed as an extension of international law, but is actually the antithesis of it. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov recently commented: “the beauty of these Western ‘rules’ lies precisely in the fact that they lack any specific content.”
Strategically ambiguous standards are designed to enable NATO countries to decide when the rules have been broken and then unilaterally punish those who run contrary to their values.
The rules-based international system is intended for the West to police the rest, which is why it does not apply to the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange or the treason charges leveled against Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Medvedchuk. It also exempts Guantanamo Bay, the Stuxnet saga, NSA mass surveillance, digital censorship, the dismemberment of Serbia, or the hundreds of thousands who have perished in the illegal ‘humanitarian wars’ of Western states. The responsibility of NATO countries to uphold the rules-based system is instead used as the reason for exempting themselves from these rules.
Under the veil of the responsibility to selflessly uphold values, members of the bloc can ever-so casually discuss ways to topple foreign governments with economic sanctions or military power.
Towards woke imperialism?
Will humanitarian imperialism evolve into woke imperialism? It hardly seems far-fetched that woke values will be absorbed into the existing liberal-democratic civilizing mission to remake the world in the West’s image. Can the objective “to bring Hungary to its knees” develop into subversion, regime-change operations, or LGBT wars?
In the current age of liberal authoritarianism, the US is partnering with Saudi Arabia to fight for Syrian human rights by occupying the country’s territory, cooperating with jihadi groups, stealing oil Damascus needs to fund rebuilding, and stealing the wheat required for civilians there to survive.
Rights for sexual minorities is an important topic for any society, but cynical forces are obviously at play when the pride flag is raised over US military bases.
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