Iraq is considering the death penalty for LGBTQ+ people - and you can thank the British for that ( www.thecanary.co )

usernamesaredifficul , 10 months ago

that doesn’t really make sense Iraq is it’s own country independence means that they are now responsible for their own laws. Also what do you want britain to do at this point everyone old enough to have been involved in the 1920 colonisation of Iraq is dead now

blaming everything about iraq now on a 10 year period 100 years ago is ridiculous

420blazeit69 , 10 months ago

The status quo is hard to change. The British are responsible for changing the status quo from “don’t really care” to “illegal.” That also has effects on how people grow up thinking about LGBT rights, which is how you get support for a law that’s ratcheting up the oppression.

I don’t think this article should be read as “the Brits are fully responsible, period,” but as an example of how the many harms of colonialism still leave marks today.

paysrenttobirds , 10 months ago

The status quo is hard to change…the Brits changed the status quo

I agree, though. The British share the blame, but it’s hard to argue that any particular law they made persists due to some special factor other than that it is as useful to the insecure government of today as it was to the insecure colonial government of the time.