Manuel Guerrero Aviña is being forcibly deported from Qatar after he was arrested in February for being gay.
    • tacticalsugarEnglish
      40·
      3 months ago

      Do you think there are circumstances where queer people deserve to be tortured? He moved there for work, but your victim blaming would be just as gross even if he did it for fun.

        • tacticalsugarEnglish
          14·
          3 months ago

          Not everyone can afford to not take work. Queer people are more likely to be fired and refused jobs because they’re queer, and that frequently means needing to take horrible jobs in horrible places just to survive.

          but does he really think

          I don’t mean this in a snarky way, try waterboarding yourself for 5 seconds and then consider if you would be in any way rational after sustained torture. Torture fucks you up in horrible ways, and I don’t think we should be criticizing this man for how he reacted to the injustice he faced.

      • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.mlEnglish
        16·
        3 months ago

        There aren’t. However, if one country’s laws says “we torture lgbt its a crime”, why would you move there as a queer, where your existence is considered a crime? Surely there are other job opportunities at other places that don’t think that way.

        • tacticalsugarEnglish
          5·
          3 months ago

          I’m just gonna copy and paste a previous post.

          Not everyone can afford to not take work. Queer people are more likely to be fired and refused jobs because they’re queer, and that frequently means needing to take horrible jobs in horrible places just to survive.

          Surely there are other job opportunities at other places that don’t think that way.

          There really aren’t. In the past year every queer person I know has been fired and/or severely abused at their job and now they can’t find new work. I get that it’s hard for a lot of people to consider literally being unhireable, but that’s what queers are experiencing right now.

      • 432@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        I agree with you. I would have gladly had him with my Bible Study group.