MOSCOW, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Russia’s Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that LGBT activists should be designated as extremists, in a move that representatives of gay and transgender people fear will lead to arrests and prosecutions.
A Reuters reporter in court heard it announce that it had approved a request from the justice ministry to recognise what it called “the international LGBT social movement” as extremist and to ban its activities.
This is why I cannot consider the so-called leftists who oppose taking action against a fascist like Putin to be actual leftists. Putin is a hard right dictator who violates every principle of human rights at every turn.
Tankies are authoritarians, the left/right angle doesn’t matter there.
Inb4 “read On Authority, a book I haven’t read, and if I read it I’d realize it was not pro-authoritarianism but actually anti-pacifism”
Yeah, no.
As an anarchist, it’s just authoritarianism.
Fuck your hierarchies and top-down systems of oppression. Fuck supporting genocidal dictators.
Go read the conquest of bread and liberate yourself.
They went so far authoritarian left, they ended up authoritarian right.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: one can usually tell who the good guys are by how they treat LGBT people.
one can usually tell who the good guys are by how they treat
LGBT peopleothers different than them.FTFY
LGBT people are a convenient metric because they are a minority that exists everywhere in every society. It’s how they treat a subset of their own. There’s a lot more factors regarding how societies treat outside groups, if and how they encounter them.
True, but for example im a gay man and according to the original description, I would be a good guy if I treated LGBT members right, but of course I treat them right because im part of them.
I see, I was thinking of nations and groups more than individuals when I made that comment. Not every LGBT person treats LGBT people well, Roy Cohn comes to mind.
Well, you are right that not every lgbt person treats lgbt persons right, which is crazy
Surely this will lead to the EU and other progressive countries to open up the borders for Russians fleeing the oppression, right? Right?
To any good Russians that are left, it is way past time to start ambush killing FSB enforcers & it is literally self defense at this point.
