LGBTQ has been Hijacked

As I wrote in a piece last year, it’s getting very hard these days to have an authentic protest - to get together with like-minded folks and have a march or a demo through town. The focus in this sentence is on the word “authentic,” meaning that it is just you and your comrades taking action for a political cause you believe in.

It’s getting hard because Western state actors - the Americans and especially the British - have landed on youth protests as a most excellent means for getting young people to stir up regime-changes in nations they want to get their hands on.

For most of last year, I was living in Tbilisi, Georgia, a country heavily targeted for this kind of activity. I recall chilling with a Georgian friend in Lisi Lake sauna one morning last winter. He recounted to me how the week before heaps of his friends had told him to come join them to take part in a march down Rustavelli (the city’s main avenue) that was about to start. He went along but when he arrived, he felt intuitively that something was off.

The protest was over the government introducing a policy that would compel NGOs to be transparent about their funding sources. In addition, it was to complain that the government was not taking sufficient action to support the ambition of many Georgians to join the EU.

When my friend arrived, there were people handing out prepared placards with slogans in English on them and professional photographers ready to film the young locals as they marched down the main street. He went along but he had this feeling like the thing was being stage-managed, seemingly by the very NGOs that the bill was aimed at.

Pictures of the protest quickly appeared in the Western media, proclaiming the demonstrators as young freedom fighters, pushing back against the evil, repressive regime of the Georgian government.

A few days later, an opposite protest took place down Rustavelli. Older, more traditional Georgians marched down the thoroughfare, standing up for the government and the bill. They burned the EU flag outside the big government building. The Western media characterized this protest as being that of far-right, neo-nazi, Russia supporters.

This all happened in March 2023. In the end, the Georgian government bowed to the protests and dropped the bill. Though no one seemed to ask just what would be so terrible about NGOs needing to say who was funding them.

Fast forward to July, and the Western media is filled with stories of the latest Tbilisi protests, this time by locals against an LGBTQ Pride event. Once again, they are characterized as right-wing, pro-Russia thugs.

Georgia is by no means the only country where NGOs and other Western agencies stir up unrest among the young with the intention of creating regime-change and the installation of a West-leaning puppet regime. All across West Asia (the Middle East) and in many other countries the West would like to get its hands on, the exact same strategy is being pursued.

Local LGBTQ and Women’s Rights groups, in particular, are seen as absolutely perfect vehicles to forward Western geopolitical agendas. And, of course, in countries where there are no such groups, they can soon be funded into existence. Like I say, it’s getting really hard to have an authentic contra-mainstream activist group without some Western agency or other getting its hands on it!

So what really is wrong with any of this? Surely, many traditional cultures could benefit from embracing change and evolving to be more inclusive?

I agree.

But there actually is an issue here. The state actors who fund the NGOs that stir up unrest don’t actually care about LGBTQ or women’s rights themselves. They couldn’t care less. They just want to project more power and get more control over global resources. Thus, whilst the young of these countries may be find themselves being drawn into the manipulation, the older people feel the way they are being played and they push back.

The result is that any natural cultural evolution grinds to a complete halt. The country becomes divided between the manipulated young people who want change and the angry older people who are enraged by the manipulation. In this situation, LGBTQ and women’s rights actually go backwards. Things get worse for them. Regimes get more repressive as they push back against Western interference in their culture. Any natural cultural evolution is blocked.

I think non-Western peoples should have a right to not be used as political pawns in this manner. I think NGOs should have to declare their funding sources. I think traditional people have a right to determine themselves how their culture evolves.

Quite aside of any other reason, it is clear to me that the West is way past its cultural peak. It is in decline, not just economically but more importantly, culturally. There is a “meaning crisis” enveloping tens of millions. Mental health issues are expanding at a horrifying rate because Western modernism has uprooted religion and family but put nothing in their place to hold people who are struggling. Before continuing to expand itself across the globe, the West needs to deal with its own issues and for me, this needs to be recognized.

Let me conclude with Saeed Jaffrey and Sean Connery in fine form, capturing how the British still tend to perceive the non-Western world.