Posted on 03/27/2018 9:02:53 AM PDT by Ennis85
A tweet posted by Argentina's government office for human rights has been mocked online.
The tweet reads: "Whatever your orientation, we're all part of the sexual diversity.#MakingVisible."
It is followed by a picture with the motto: "Heterosexuality is part of sexual diversity."
Many readers reacted with incredulity and asked if the official government account had been hacked. Others posted memes of people rolling their eyes.
https://twitter.com/SDHArgentina/status/978255505209643008/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fworld-latin-america-43557526
Most pointed out that a campaign to make people more visible is usually aimed at minorities and not those who are in the majority.
Twitter user @agostinaaznar wrote [in Spanish]: "I've never been discriminated against for being heterosexual and as such I'm already quite visible... You'd be better off giving more visibility to LGBT people, who are oppressed and in need [of such a campaign]."
Fernando Rey (@ferReyPG) posted [in Spanish]: "After years of fighting for the LGBT movement, a stupid and reactionary government wants to make us invisible by saying such a stupidity. Do heteros also get beaten up because of their sexuality?"
LGBT rights groups have been critical of President Mauricio Macri and his centre-right administration.
Stalled progress
While Argentina was the first country in Latin America to legalise same-sex marriage in 2010, rights activists say it still has a long way to go to guarantee the rights and safety of the LGBT community.
They say that both same-sex marriage and groundbreaking legislation which allowed for gender to be legally changed without having undergone reassignment surgery were passed under former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and that little has moved since Mr Macri took power.
While Argentina was the first country in Latin America to legalise same-sex marriage in 2010, rights activists say it still has a long way to go to guarantee the rights and safety of the LGBT community.
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I’ve heard that Chile is the place to be in SA.
“Mocked” as in the BBC author agrees with the angry liberals and wanted to write this.
Isn;t Pope Francisco from Argentina. I wonder if he was influential in his political circles in his country.
That’s the way you do it.
It’s fun (though I rarely get the chance) when arguing with feminists on the internet and they start getting emotional and I then respond, “Feminists are so cute when they’re mad.”
The best weapon is mockery. The left is on an emotional hair trigger.
It doesn’t work with the right. But the left is like a tinderbox just looking for a spark.
This seems similar to the notion that “All Lives Matter” — which was characterized as a hateful, bigoted, racist thing to say.
Degenerates unite!
There was a notorious incident where Bergoglio had told two priests who lived in a slum parish and reputedly were linked to leftist elements that they had to leave the parish for their own safety. They refused, and next thing you know they were kidnapped as rebels by the right-wing military, imprisoned and tortured. After the war (which they survived) they both blamed Bergoglio that they'd been arrested and he didn't speak out publicly for them.
Later one of them forgave him because Bergoglio said he'd been working quietly behind the scenes to get them released.
Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner considered him a political opponent. I think it had to do with him favoring term limitations (opposed to limitless reelection by the Kirchners.)
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