Sorry, gonna need a ticket to escalate that

Epstein class*

I’m sorry, him calling the IDF moral?

When asked about the IDF, Alexander stated that they were humane and noble, stating “some of the finest, most humane, most admirable, most noble-serving soldiers that I’ve ever seen” and that “there can never be any doubt that I am also an advocate for Israel”

There’s nothing absolute in saying someone who says the above is a hardcore Zionist.

If you want to dig deeper into the silly little nonprofits he supports, they’re the same bullshit veneer of advocating for a two state solution but not actually listening to Palestinian voices or pushing the needle in Israel in the slightest.

He’s the average liberal Zionist who thinks apartheid is fine and that it can be reformed - this has been the biggest cover for the worst of Zionism.

And if you don’t think of any level of Zionism (an ethno supremacist, colonial, and genocidal ideology) as hardcore, then that’s on you.

Nor does Jason Alexander (aka George costanza) - he’s a diehard Zionist

I don’t know if this question could be answered academically or at length because it’s pretty straightforward.

A colonial empire would apply their rule system within their colonies, and even post-independence those ex-colonies would maintain those laws as their baseline.

France and Britain made homosexuality illegal in their colonies because they made it illegal in their own countries.

If you want more details, at least regarding French law and colonialism - it wasn’t that homosexuality was illegal - it was decriminalized by the french revolution in the 18th century.

But they then labelled it as "unnatural, “immoral”, and “against the laws of nature” - the same labels that are applied in ex-colonies. So it went from a death penalty to jail time, and that’s what they applied to their colonies.

And while France was toning down it’s anti-homosexuality laws locally, they continued with oppressive laws in their colonies because control was the main driver.

Post colonialism is when religious ultra-conservative thought become more entrenched in the ex-colonies, and after decades of applying discriminatory laws, things continued and sometimes got worse with ultra-conservative interpretations of religious texts.

Fair. I also commented on the other Mods earlier post about it and told them that this account is just a month old.

Can I throw my hat in the ring? I’m a history fan, I don’t subscribe to any religious beliefs that inform or perverse my understanding of history, and I have some free time.

If you’re still looking for Mods, I’d be interested in applying. Though I’ve only been on Lemmy for under a month now.