Conservatives around the world share two traits. The first is "Me, me. me" they just don't care about others and the second is that they need scapegoats to distract people from the real issues, like the ungodly rich sucking up all the money in the world. The richest 1% own nearly 43% of all global financial assets! They are the real villains.
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, launched the Year of the Family, by criticising the LGBTQ+ community for supposedly undermining traditional values.Pink NewsBy Sophie PerryJanuary 14, 2025The president, who has held office since 2014, is vehemently anti-LGBTQ+ and announced last week that 2025 had been designated the year of the family. The campaign seeks to promote marriage and bolster Turkey’s birth rate, which dropped from an average of 2.1 in 2014 to 1.51 in 2023.As part of the programme, financial incentives will be offered, including newlywed couples being eligible for interest-free loans of 150,000 lira (approximately £3,500/$4,200), and parents will be given extra money based on the number of children they have.Giving a speech in the capital, Ankara, Erdoğan said population growth had “reached alarming levels”, adding: “While our child and youth population is shrinking, for the first time in our history, the elderly population has surpassed 10 per cent and our average age is approaching 34.”
How can you bring children into this world when most people cannot afford to have food on the table? How can you bring children into the world when you can't afford housing?
“It is our common responsibility to protect our children and youth from harmful trends and perverse ideologies,” he said. “Neoliberal cultural trends are crossing borders and penetrating all corners of the world. They also lead to LGBT and other movements gaining ground.“The target of gender-neutralisation policies, in which LGBT is used as a battering ram, is the family. Criticism of LGBT is immediately silenced, just like the legitimate criticisms of Zionism. Anyone who defends nature and the family is subject to heavy oppression.”
Oh look... those evil trans and gay people corrupting our youth! Never mind the corruption in Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's government! It is those evil gays that are causing all the problems.
“It is our common responsibility to protect our children and youth from harmful trends and perverse ideologies,” he said. “Neoliberal cultural trends are crossing borders and penetrating all corners of the world. They also lead to LGBT and other movements gaining ground.
Around the world the right-wing conservatives continue to push the lie that being LGBTQ+ is a choice and that we are "grooming."
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