From the article: "There’s the impression that LGBTQ communities are by default connected to the West and could be seen as destabilising forces,”

It’s depressing that many governemnts/people view LGBTQ to be from the west, especially when you consider that some countries want to dewesternise/decolonise, and since LGBT has been intertwined with the west, they use this as an obsurd justification for repression

A fair point but thats the world we live in. When our opponents abandon truth we have to cherish it more so that we are trusted

He didn’t really say nobody knows what a magnet is in a literal sense, I think it was just his weird way of talking. When criticing trump lets be a little careful since its important to get it right otherwise noone will believe our other critics.