• BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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    8 hours ago

    A .worlder do apologetics for the fascist Batista regime? It must be a day that ends in Y.

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        8 hours ago

        Your key issue was that Castro “jailed political dissidents.” The political dissidents jailed by Castro were supporters of the Batista Regime, who were slavers, fascists, and colinizers working with the United States. The “authoritarian action” you are criticizing was jailing fascists and slavers, this is definitionally implying that you support Castro letting slavers and fascists run free, ergo defending fascism.

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          8 hours ago

          Lol lol lol.

          You got upset that I don’t like the government of cuba. Never have, even before they were authoritarian communist.

          Oh no… an internet communist calling me homophobic as an ad hominem. So edgy.

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            8 hours ago

            You don’t know enough about the government of Cuba to not like it, as proven by the fact that you think Batista was no worse than Castro. You’re just a brainwashed western fascist who thinks their ignorance is equal to actual knowledge.

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            6 hours ago

            It’s fun watching this person berate you for being homophobic over an analogy while wholeheartedly supporting a dictator who persecuted, imprisoned, and forced conversion on homosexuals.

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              6 hours ago

              Oh, guess you lied about changing your mind and missed me praising the progress of modern Cuba in cementing a much better family code.

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                4 hours ago

                What are you talking about? The point of comparing Fidel’s actions and the commenter’s analogy was to illustrate the severity of Castro’s actions by comparison, not minimize the offensive analogy. They’re also aggressively berating the other person, unlike your genuine attempt at connection in the other thread.

                Your comment feels like bad faith. If you’re genuinely stating that my comment implies that homophobic analogies are justified by Castro’s atrocities, I’ll delete it. I have no interest in offending an entire group of people.

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                  5 hours ago

                  The user you are replying to has only had issue with Castro “jailing political dissidents,” who were supporters of the fascist (and homophobic) slaver Batista regime. When this was pointed out, they never spoke out against it.

                  I assert that the Communists taking power was good for the people of Cuba, and that those like Castro are demonized because they liberated Cuba from colonizers, slavers, and fascists. Castro, however, was not a saint free from sin, merely a far better person than Batista with the Cuban people at heart.

                  I of course detest homophobia, and don’t erase that. However, it remains important to recognize that homosexuality was illegal in Batista’s reign, and that the system Castro helped build was the one that ultimately passed the current Family Code that is among the best for the LGBT community on the planet.

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                    5 hours ago

                    We can agree to disagree on Castro. I’m more concerned with unintentionally offending people’s sexuality. Do you think it reads more as minimization of the offensiveness of the analogy, or illustrating the severity of Fidel’s actions by comparison? Honest answer please.