It wouldn't be too tough to take concepts from a limited vocab like toki pona, and do vocab words by ratio of total number of speakers. Boom, ial language that's not eurocentric.
There's another problem: a language is not just a bunch of concepts, it's an internally consistent structure. It's hard (or at least sub-optimal) to mix certain features found in different languages, in a way that is equally easy for everyone regardless of L1 background to get it.
A good example of that would be the role of word order. It could be used for case, as in English, or for topic-comment, as in Russian; but if you're doing it English style you'll likely need articles too, and if you're doing it Russian style you'll likely want explicit case marks. No matter which one you pick, you're making the language for either Russian or English speakers to understand.
Amsterdam had to ban the use of rainbow flags in student homes because they became a target of arsonists. The same Amsterdam has incidents of violence against gay people just walking the street.
There’s a lot of towns in The Netherlands that are dealing with reactionary violence against gay people and symbols.
And then I haven’t even talked about the increase of fascist popularity.
Just because we have a few gay bars and a pride doesn’t mean we are a gay heaven or something. Homophobia is very much still a problem in The Netherlands. So much that I didn’t see gay people openly walking hand in hand an kissing in public until I moved to Belgium. So much that I, wearing a bit more flamboyant clothing, get harassed and intimidated in my Dutch hometown. And I’m not even gay.
That map is full of hipocrisy, they claim Italy is “mostly safe” but in certain - expecially rural - places lgbtq+ prole get literally lynched in the streets n police does Jack shit about it, also i don’t think ex-yugoslavia is a good place for “gay tourism”
Edit: also Ukraine is just “a little dangerous” yeah, the nazi country ran by nazis with an army choke full of nazis, with nazi parades and nazi war criminals celebrates as heroes and founding fathers
Just reread the map and what the fuck does “completely safe” mean? I’m not in the mood to be mistreated to an utter horror show but I promise if I searched “Canada anti-gay hate crimes” online I’d be met with a plethora of evidence to the contrary of it being completely fucking safe. Like, are there no even individual homophobes in Canada? The jolly maple syrup wholesome Keanu northerners all just love LGBT people?
I really hate maps like this since it clearly caters to white gay males shown by their use of “travel”, immediately disregarding all the millions of gay people literally living in these societies.
It is also chauvinistic because they act like any of the countries in red would risk a diplomatic incident to arrest or imprison bourgeois white men who nonetheless enter these countries for their sexual adventurism and fetishism, treating global south gay people as nothing but commodified bodies to use and discard, and condemning the people they use to the supposed homophobic societies with no spare thought.
As someone who has lived in the supposedly deadly dangerous countries, I am still alive because surprise surprise these countries actually don’t have a gay meter to track the gayness of people. And they especially don’t care what bourgeois white men do in their own rooms.
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