cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/52518794
The assault on anything LGBTQ-related in Russia continues. After hundreds of administrative cases and even criminal prosecutions, after bans on support organisations, the police have now filed a report against a 13-year-old schoolboy for “LGBT propaganda” and for displaying extremist symbols. Mediazona discovered the records relating to the case in the Russian court database (we are not disclosing his name or region for safety reasons). It’s illegal to prosecute a someone for this kind of offence at such a young age, so the charges have been dropped. But the boy now faces the risk of being sent to a special school for juvenile offenders.
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This is what happens when you want to resist western influence but have literally nothing worthwhile to offer as an alternative
Western influence is when gay.
What an absurdly weird framing of this issue.
Hating gay people is how the Russian bourgeoisie has chosen to differentiate themselves from their western counterparts. They needed a big cultural difference to latch onto and exacerbate because the dynamics of their socioeconomic system are otherwise nearly identical to the wests’.
Is the western influence in the room with you right now?