Comments on: Uganda Government Blocks Film Depicting LGBT Human Rights Workers http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2010/12/14/28464 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Sat, 25 May 2013 17:13:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: anteros http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2010/12/14/28464/comment-page-1#comment-84954 anteros Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:59:50 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=28464#comment-84954 this "promotion" stuff is laughable. right now, aren't i promoting (this comment) the promotion (the article) of the promotion (the documentary film) of homosexuality? and by reading this you've just joined the food chain... so, wouldn't we all have fingers wagged at us for committing the heinous yet constitutionally legal crime of "promotion"? this “promotion” stuff is laughable.

right now, aren’t i promoting (this comment) the promotion (the article) of the promotion (the documentary film) of homosexuality?

and by reading this you’ve just joined the food chain… so, wouldn’t we all have fingers wagged at us for committing the heinous yet constitutionally legal crime of “promotion”?

]]> By: Randy http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2010/12/14/28464/comment-page-1#comment-84949 Randy Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:16:13 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=28464#comment-84949 What is the title and director of the documentary? What is the title and director of the documentary?

]]> By: anteros http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2010/12/14/28464/comment-page-1#comment-84944 anteros Wed, 15 Dec 2010 03:57:13 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=28464#comment-84944 ...great article! …great article!

]]> By: anteros http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2010/12/14/28464/comment-page-1#comment-84943 anteros Wed, 15 Dec 2010 03:23:55 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=28464#comment-84943 wow. blatant disrespect for human rights... coming directly from none other than the minister of ethics and integrity himself. what many ugandans might not understand is... the same human rights that lgbt ugandans and sex workers are being denied, may one day be denied wholesale. maybe then they will understand that human rights are universal and that they apply to all human beings, including... actually, *especially* ...especially those human beings who for centuries have been treated as 'less equal' or sub-human. the set of people being pushed out to the fringes will grow as human rights violators like buturo expand their margins of discrimination. maybe then, in hindsight, ugandans will realise what was really at stake when sex workers and lgbt ugandans were being denied their human rights... and maybe then, positive change will come. when i remember ssempa ranting in church, 'as africans, we want to ask obama to explain to us... is this what he wants to bring to africa as a human right, to eat da poo poo of our children!?' ...and when i remember buturo declaring on human rights day, 'there are limits to human rights, homos can forget about human rights' ...that's when i realise just how retrogressive ugandans can be... nobody's perfect, but uganda has a really long way to go as far as human rights are concerned (not only for its lgbt citizens)... especially at the leadership level. so... who's gonna help buturo understand human rights and the ugandan constitution? wow. blatant disrespect for human rights… coming directly from none other than the minister of ethics and integrity himself. what many ugandans might not understand is… the same human rights that lgbt ugandans and sex workers are being denied, may one day be denied wholesale. maybe then they will understand that human rights are universal and that they apply to all human beings, including… actually, *especially* …especially those human beings who for centuries have been treated as ‘less equal’ or sub-human. the set of people being pushed out to the fringes will grow as human rights violators like buturo expand their margins of discrimination. maybe then, in hindsight, ugandans will realise what was really at stake when sex workers and lgbt ugandans were being denied their human rights… and maybe then, positive change will come.

when i remember ssempa ranting in church, ‘as africans, we want to ask obama to explain to us… is this what he wants to bring to africa as a human right, to eat da poo poo of our children!?’
…and when i remember buturo declaring on human rights day, ‘there are limits to human rights, homos can forget about human rights’
…that’s when i realise just how retrogressive ugandans can be… nobody’s perfect, but uganda has a really long way to go as far as human rights are concerned (not only for its lgbt citizens)… especially at the leadership level.

so… who’s gonna help buturo understand human rights and the ugandan constitution?

]]> By: Jim Burroway http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2010/12/14/28464/comment-page-1#comment-84925 Jim Burroway Tue, 14 Dec 2010 20:34:22 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=28464#comment-84925 The software for some reason truncated the post when I first tried to post this. I missed that paragraph when I attempted to fix it. It's updated now. The software for some reason truncated the post when I first tried to post this. I missed that paragraph when I attempted to fix it. It’s updated now.

]]> By: tavdy79 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2010/12/14/28464/comment-page-1#comment-84918 tavdy79 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:57:31 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=28464#comment-84918 <blockquote>And as we all know, when you’re down in the polls and facing enormous political odds (namely, a ruling party that won’t back you in what is effectively a one-party state), then</blockquote> ... then what?

And as we all know, when you’re down in the polls and facing enormous political odds (namely, a ruling party that won’t back you in what is effectively a one-party state), then

… then what?

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