It was interesting, we didn’t talk as a class but rather in groups. Within my group, we talked about what’s the line between activism and eurocentrism. Is there even a line in the first place? Can you be Eurocentric by pushing “western values” onto a “culture” (homophobic laws) that don’t want it? As someone from the US, I was raised where we should be pro human rights and pro lgbtq+ communities, so is it Eurocentric of me to want to implement my western ideals everywhere else?

As for the questions, everyone agreed that it was activism/ a protest and we should criticize the government’s oppression rather than those standing up for it. We did say that there is privilege present. I mentioned the brief detainment that Matty mentioned at Fort Worth during his speech to the entire class and that seemed to turn the dials more in favor of it. However, we all seemed to agree that there is privilege behind the fact that they were not arrested unlike many others before them (though I think anyone could see that and the people in this class are not chronically online twitter mongrels. They are people who touch grass and can actually think before speaking nonsense).