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Iraq’s official media regulator has reportedly banned the terms “homosexual” and “homosexuality” on all media and social media platforms and is instead mandating the usage of the term “sexual devia…

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[–] exohuman@programming.dev 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those losers are so worried about other people’s sexuality.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like, are they going to remove the gender field from their identity forms too? Why would you ban a common word?

[–] favrion@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

That would be ironic, considering that gender wouldn't matter upon hire.

[–] o0joshua0o@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good luck teaching most languages if the word "gender" is banned.

[–] BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Hell, Arabic itself has gendered nouns.

أسماء عربية هي مؤنثة أو مذكرة

[–] ElBarto@lzrprt.sbs 11 points 1 year ago

I thought it said Sexual Diva lol, I want to be a Sexual Diva damn it!

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Wow. Such democracy. Hey, where is that WMD anyway....

What a proud achievement for Desantis to boast about on the campaign trail /s

[–] Knusper@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Was the Iraq War not also officially to combat religious fundamentalists? And now you hear these kind of news from Iraq and from Florida.

[–] jhulten@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

The Ba'ath party was more nationalist, anti imperialist but also unify the Arab world, socialist but discriminatatory...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Socialist_Ba%27ath_Party_%E2%80%93_Iraq_Region

[–] NXTR@artemis.camp 2 points 1 year ago

What’s interesting about homophobia in Iraq and West Asia in general is that it was originally imported by the British during their colonial rule. Prior to this these countries were much less strict about homosexuality. It was still frowned upon at certain points in time, but not violently persecuted. After these countries gained independence they stuck with the British stance regarding homosexuality. Ironically, western nations becoming more open about same sex relationships made fundamentalists in these former colonies even more homophonic and violent because it had the appearance of going against western hegemony (despite homophobia still being firmly engrained into western society).

[–] Haus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Ostriches ban media reports of heads not being in sand.

[–] maleek@lemmy.my.id -1 points 1 year ago

I think they banning kind of lgbtq, and im not sure because the arab it self has gender pronounces, CMIIW.