What have attitudes towards things like abstract art and homosexuality to do with politics ?
On the social scale, they’re immensely important. Homophobia has been highly politicised by leaders like Robert Mugabe and betrays a tendency to condemn and punish those who disregard conventional values. Hitler’s pink triangles reflected similar authoritarian hostility. Likewise, authoritarian régimes frequently attack highly imaginative and unconventional art, music and literary works as a threat to the rigid cultural conformity they uphold.
