A political cartoon from the Cuban newspaper Mella criticizing the US for being tolerant toward LGBTQ
Posted Jun 28, 2022, 3:57 AM UTC
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What year is this from?
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Not sure, but based on the fashion and uniforms I'd say somewhere in the 70s
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I’m baffled as to what it supposed to be going on in the “Free World” panels. The magazine is obvious, but why is Douglas MacArthur just chilling on a street corner with his boys? Who’s the fat guy with the cigar and the bowl haircut?
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They even use a homophobic slur
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Maggots? Flower? I think that's more about the college. No one I've ever heard uses that as a slur. There are words specifically for that.
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"Corrompido" is a Cuban slur for homosexuals
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They didn't even write it right, it's not "corrompido" it's corrupto. It's an irregular verb.
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Actually in this case, "corrompido" is a slur used by communists for homosexuals
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Oh I wasn't aware, thanks.
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Good to know so I can start using it
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The US soldier and the gay boy are dating -w-
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I ship it.
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Is anyone able to translate? I think I get the gist of it.
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The top text say something along the lines of "Every day that passed, he become more confused. At the end, Florito (diminutive for "flower", to reinforce the idea that homosexuals are weak and femenine), could only but compare: Cuba (left column) The Free World (right column)". The newspaper says: "Magazine in New York edited especially for homosexuals" and the last panel depicts Florito pleading for help to the USA soldier to protect him from the communists.
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Thank you!
I think this works better as an advertisement for capitalism.
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Ben Shapiro should be in freaking love with Cuba
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Hard-left politics is populism and sooner or later (usually sooner) populism means bigotry. Those who project their fantasies of a utopian lifestyle onto communism should read up a bit on what happened to the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution or the students & trade unions 30 seconds after the Iranian revolution.
Leftist philosophy, like it’s far-right counterpart, is inherently grounded in collectivism and groupthink/group mentality
Khomeni's?
Khomeini's. It was initially supported by Anti-Shah leftists like the Communist Party or the People's Mujahideen because "there's no way the Cleric who preached about the need for a theocracy since the 1970s would actually try to establish a theocracy, right?