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As if that is the biggest problem with Russia right now
LGBT laws and talks are pulled out by the right/far-right when there are shitstorms incoming. It’s literally a giant “Press in case of emergency” button, alongside immigration, etc
To distract people from more important issues, you mean?
Yes.
The Hungarian anti-LGBT law was made in response of financial troubles, labor safety issues, dismantling of the public education and healthcare system, record corruption, the Kaleta case (in which a Hungarian diplomat only received a pitiful fine for CSEM possession, while being in Peru), and the real threats children face from the low age of consent of 14.
Yea think so. A society that always talks about the issues of the right, is a society where the right always wins.
There is no "more important issue" than protecting fundamental human rights, including fundamental human rights of LGBTQ+ people.
c/whoosh?
More like pulling this crap that would have people protesting in the streets in peacetime at wartime when people have bigger things to worry about.
Yeah
This is completely false, going after trans people was literally one of the first thing the Nazis did.
LGBTQ+ people aren't a "distraction" from "more important issues", they are real human beings with real lives who fascists love to fuck with for no other reason than they're bullies.
Dude, LGBT isn’t just “trans people”. nobody is arguing that LGBT ppl aren’t human beings with feelings, but they are easy scapegoats (alongside immigrants etc) to distract people from real problems… unless you consider LGBT people or immigrants or whatever to be problems at all, which are not hence the “distraction”; I wouldn’t be surprised if Putin personally didn’t give a fuck about lgbt people
Nazi germany is a very poor example for your point since Jews, LGBT etc were easy scapegoats for the terrible situations they were in after WW1. You don’t even have to go that far either, look at US, Italy etc that have gone (far-)right and the discussion is always about immigration, LGBT people and other stuff that makes no sense and is either a very small problem or not a problem at all
tldr: governments use easy answer to redirect people’s anger towards made-up problems, so that they don’t really think how fucked they are
Scapegoating isn't the "oh shit" emergency tactic of the right tho, it's the first move they play.
Agreed completely. How is it possible people still don't realize that with fascists, the cruelty is the point? Torturing minorities isn't a distraction, it's the goal.
Ignorance is strength.
The nukes are their primary strength
As if they work. I'll take the bet none of em are functional. Not with Russia's extreme corruption.
This mentality is basically "fuck diplomacy, go monke"
Classic throwback meme reference
I definitely don’t want to take that bet
No one said it's the biggest issue, no one said there aren't other, bigger issues.
I'm saying it's among the biggest issues! A fascist regime going after one of the most vulnerable classes of citizens, how is that anything other than a colossal issue?
I think you might have misunderstood my comment, I wasn't saying that this law isn't an issue, I agree that it's a huge issue.
It is not an issue at all, except to bigots. And to bigots it is the biggest issue, until they are attracted to another non-existant issue by the social media propaganda accounts which they follow.