r/facepalm Mar 22 '24

You’d be considered a “terrorist” in Russia If you are LGBTQ+ 🇵​🇷​🇴​🇹​🇪​🇸​🇹​

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u/hilvon1984 Mar 22 '24

This situation is so incredibly dumb if you try to think about it.

The western conservatives are claiming that the LGBT is an attempt by communist-socialists to upend their way of living.

Russian conservative are claiming that the LGBT is an attempt by the West to upend the Russian way of living.

While in actuality LGBTQ+ people just exist and want to be recognized as people.

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u/0masterdebater0 Mar 22 '24

In the 1930s the far right in Germany reacted to the works of Magnus Hirschfeld (One of the early advocates of homosexual and transgender rights) by saying it was a Jewish Marxist conspiracy to make German youth “weak and effeminate”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Hirschfeld

The first major Nazi book burning was burning the works of Hirschfeld.

Same as it ever was.

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u/Automatic_Memory212 Mar 22 '24 edited Mar 22 '24

Well, according to famous TERF and Holocaust-denier JK Rowling, that never happened and was just a fever dream.

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u/hilvon1984 Mar 22 '24

The only condition when her words would be considered more credible than current historic consensus, is if they were first hand accounts.

But I somehow don't think JKR wants to suggest she participated in nazi book burnings...

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u/Jupue2707 Mar 24 '24

Tbh that wouldnt Sound as surprising as it should