Malaysian here 👋🏻

Honestly we have been having such a hard time getting international acts to the country (we have religious radicals that ate strongly opposing these shows).

It was only recently with a tough government swap that things are starting to get better - things were starting to open up.

Less than half a year since things got better, this clown decided to run his mouth, insulting the government and fueling these religious radicals with more reasons shows should be banned.

Honestly, good fcking job, 2 steps forward, 1 step back. You fcked us all.

Two steps forward, one step back, so it’s a step forward, yet he “fucked you all”?

If one side is a bigoted regime and the other side is speaking out against them, and you’re against the side speaking out against them, what does that make you?

Maybe listen to people from the actual country that understand the political conditions? They know what is useful and what is not in their current situation better than you do.

This isn’t a game where shouting for one side the loudest and most often magically wins, unlike americans like to believe. Doing so at the wrong time gets you cracked down upon, or worse it gets lgbt people killed.

People from the west go to these countries and make these statements completely oblivious to the fact that they’re harming the local efforts of lgbt activists within the country who are acting more strategically with a better understanding of what will and will not advance their position in the current climate they have.