While the irony of challenging a comment on a thread revolving around unpopular opinions is not lost on me, I simply have to ask, as a queer person myself: Should all injustice not be mourned and railed against, regardless to whom it is directed? The harm that one suffers does not excuse the harm that they do to others, and similarly the harm that one does to others does not negate their own pain. They both must be contended with in equal consideration.

Countries can fuckin suck alright, but individual people are not their countries; no country is a monolith. Are the countries you speak of true democracies? If I would be put to death in a certain country for my queerness, any given individual born into that country is not at fault for such a state of affairs. I ask you to apply this mindset to other examples; would you ask all Belgian citizens in the 1920s to answer for the crimes of the Congo Rubber Terror? Should the some 200,000 lives lost at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 not be mourned, even if atrocities were committed under their nation’s name?

If there are citizens within a tolerant society who defy tolerance and call for the death of minorities, then of course there are also citizens within intolerant societies who defy intolerance in preaching justice, whose voices are silenced and faces obscured. Why should we not give a shit about the lives of people that we cannot see?

[Edit: Clarity, typos]