• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    In the sense that the UK isn’t likely to force my queer daughter into a conversion camp in the near future, no.

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        Right, because Labour, (and the Tories and the Lib Dems) are all totally homophobic just like Republicans.

        What the fuck are you talking about?

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          I’m just saying that I think this particular fear you have is roughly equally likely. Maybe the likelihood of it happening in the US is double or triple than the UK, but I think that would put the likelihood only from 0.01% to 0.03%, so basically the same.

          Forcing queers (~8% of the population) in re-education camps would incite riots. They won’t do it.

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            Did you listen to the King’s speech this year? I doubt it.

            Did you know that the King’s speech lays out government policy? I also doubt it.

            Did you know that the King’s speech this year included making conversion therapy illegal? I really doubt it.

            Meanwhile, in the U.S., there’s project 2025 and prominent republicans literally calling for trans genocide.

            Forcing queers (~8% of the population) in re-education camps would incite riots. They won’t do it.

            Yeah, remember how that happened in Germany in the 1930s when queer people were put in camps and then there was a big riot and they all got freed? No, neither do I.

            Remember how it wasn’t even legal to be queer in America until 2003? I do.