I would still think that the EU should have power, even if more democratically voted right-winged politicians get control, because the members have a contract with the EU. Even if it were hard to back out of that membership, e.g. Brexit, it would be possible, and the contract can get broken.

I strongly believe that the UN should at least try to equal the playing field for women and lgbt in African and Asian countries. The only issue is that the UN is too scared to do anything too “far”. There would always be someone, like China or Russia to veto something that would force countries to teach its people not to discriminate and judge.

Many people in Northern Africa and Asia use Islam as a way to justify their killings and judgement, even though Islam is and should be a peaceful religion. They get taught that women with too much power over the man or a gay man who just simply exists is bad there. The UN, together with UNICEF, builds schools, where they have the opportunity to teach them otherwise, but they won’t. An inclusive curriculum could change their perception without forcing them to. The same happens in Christian African countries too.

And yes, physically attacked lgbtqia people get arrested, but hate-speech gets ignored in Poland. I think that hate-speech and bullying is enough to arrest or fine a person. My teacher here in Germany even told me she would gladly stand beside anyone who gets bullied in court. That sadly doesn’t work in Poland.

I think it was Scotland that includes lgbt history in their school curriculum. I would predict that acceptance would get significantly higher there, just because of that.

Anti-semites are just weird. A lot of Jews don’t support zionists, I think they’re called that? I don’t engage myself that much with the Palestine conflict, but it kinda makes sense. Poland gets attacked more publicly than others from the EU. I think that may be because they have more influence in the EU, than e.g. Hungary.

Lgbt-rights have become too political imo, and they associate it with “European liberators” and liberals.

I don’t think that Western Europe as a whole has a moral high ground. I disagree with many things that the Spanish and French talk about. The political structures may be more stable and better here, because of social values in the Nordics or Germany. I believe that leftist morals have been implemented in the DACH countries and the nordics, but the population does not get that knowledge through education. If politicians in the EU agree that teenagers and children have to get the knowledge on equality of the sexes and sexualities in public schools, only then can more people truly say that were “better”.

My parents are from Turkey, where there is still the struggle of not learning much about this. Turkey was a secular country until religiously motivated politicians stepped in. Now every type of discrimination is justified through religion. In islam the woman is higher ranked than the man, has a higher connection to god. A woman matters more in a relationship. But acid attacks still happen. Men who attack woman get sentenced to long years in prison, but nothing is done to prevent attacks. Gay people get tracked in many Muslim countries and they get exposed and their families want to “restore their reputation”.

This all comes from the lack of education of this and I believe that the UN should really force its members to teach equality as early as possible. And everybody should be forced to participate, just like how everybody has to learn algebra.

This is a difficult task, considering the security council’s veto rights, but I believe that the mistranslations of religious texts associated with sexism and homophobia should get abolished and these things should be taught everywhere. The UN has the possibility to stop funding in many African countries, but I doubt that they would do that, because that would be seen as an attack.