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I'd be interesting to do some digging into the history of the usage of the phrase "Western values." I'm guessing it's pretty recent.
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And there's no way that "Western values" has implied "LGBT rights" for more than a decade or two.
This is a recent usage, designed by conservatives to stir up queer xenophobia.
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I believe the term came into some use during the Red Scare of 20s/30s, and became reinforced during Cold War.
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That's the earliest use that I know of.
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it's like trump halting his way through "LGBT... Q community"
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It was just 30 years ago they did barely anything about AIDS because it mostly hit gay men.
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Yeah homonationalism got its start in the 90s. The Dutch were early pioneers. Fascist/racist use of western values is a lot older though.
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It probably came into place somewhat recently, as it's also freqently used by Netenyahu to enforce that same anti-muslim bigotry by-
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-emphasizing that they're the most liberal values ME nation, trying to force oversight of their own bigotry and criminal activity.
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Example: I notice conservatives say: Islam hate gays but then preach about Christianity being under attack
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my queer-family and i were talking about this recently, we support multiculturalism precisely because our culture isn't "western culture"
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this is such a reach
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