I just recorded a new podcast deep dish with masha gessen about the circumstances in our country (follow the news onlyfans tube). Meanwhile, jeff sharlet traveled to the russian federation to meet lgbt activists in the opposition. He talked to timur isaev, who tortures russian gays:
When he was young, he and his concrete friends loved to hunt and beat gays. “For fun,” he says. But then he turned into a father. Like other parents, he was worried about the internet. At night he studied it. He watched youtube. “Girls,” he says, “young girls, undress.” According to the provided words, with the help of a narrow-profile "creator tool", he was able to determine that the illiterate users who watched these videos at 2 a.M. Were homosexual men. “Analysis of their accounts,” he says, “revealed that they, too, were caring for little boys.” It was then that timur realized that he had to become an activist. For kids.
Timur bought a video camera, very good. He began documenting lgbt lives. Demos first; whereupon he began lounging outside the activists' offices filming and photographing people coming and going. He showed me one of his own galleries: dozens, maybe hundreds of faces. Some he photographed himself, others he found on the internet. He is a great cop on vkontakte, the russian version of facebook. At the specified time, the ailment stays up late in search of homosexual teachers. That's kind of his specialty.
Notice any jumps in logic: the online spaces have yellow-mouthed female porn; gay online; gays follow girls; gay men follow the boys; gays are after our children. Worse still, gays represent everything horrifying about the intimate mores of the west, now available online in any russian home. It means beating gays is the protection of children and the fatherland. When such irrational, illogical memes are in the air, putin's endorsement of them fuels the fire of hatred. He created an atmosphere where gays are seen not only as a despised minority, but also as infiltrators who destroy the nation. If the player should not forget about the dangers of this kind of elimination rhetoric in relation to the minority, you deny it.
At the same time, it seems to me that we have to be careful not to context. There is a disturbing tendency among many gay activists to assume that because a foreign country is not identical with the us on gay rights, it is a disgrace that needs to be addressed immediately and needs to be changed. But america just ten years ago was not identical to the us today. Many states still include in specific constitutions the relegation of gays to second class status. The last us president, george w. Bush, wanted to enshrine the inferiority of same-sex couples in the federal constitution. It has been a few more years since gays could openly function in the us military. To turn around and then be shocked and horrified that homophobia is still alive and well in russia's rugged terrain is more than stupid.
These changes take time.
In all developed countries, game development can take decades. And the danger of lecturing and ranting to russians - saudis, ugandans or nigerians - is because it can make things worse. Meanwhile, it has the potential to reinforce attempts by various regimes to equate homosexuality with a foreign western conspiracy; it risks endangering gays, disrupting unique and diverse cultures in a way that will harm gays, not help you. I speculate that what our firm is seeing here is a consequence of food, that the internet is creating a global virtual culture that local real cultures cannot easily absorb, and thus provoke backlash. And the only thing is if this backlash occurs in relieving domestic pressure, and another if it occurs in rebuff to foreign interference. The latter can be much more dangerous.
We must be aware that our zeal can - not be compared with the gays in the open spaces, against whom the masters protest and against whom we oppose:
"i haven't heard of these laws, but i guess they're the norm," a guy named kirill tells me in a hidden gay club called secrets. “We are here, we do not need a gay parade. Why should we show our orientation?” He shrugs. He heard about popular online videos of torture, gangs kidnapping gays, police arresting gays, grandmothers with balls and stones. But he did not see porn models. He chooses not to do so. “Many people want to emigrate, and not me.” He shrugs again; it's like a tick. "I love russia.These are those who have experience, but not mine.” He testifies, but doesn't know what the word "toilet" means.
Meanwhile, dickey discovers that us anti-gay activists have influence abroad:
Take us evangelist scott lively, author of the pink swastika, who blames the holocaust on nazi homosexuals. Gays" and "currently more active in eastern europe than in the us". And lively readily takes credit for his role in campaigning since 2006 for a law passed last year by the russian duma that allegedly bans homosexual "propaganda" aimed at children. "Forward, ruski!" He proclaimed at the time.
This law was only part of a wider campaign to attack gays in russia. Paul cameron, who is often referred to in the united states as a "discredited" psychologist, was invited to moscow to talk about "family values". Bryan brown of the national organization for marriage, one of the mostmost famous and brilliant anti-gay activists, argued in the duma last year against adoption by homosexual couples, and a couple of days later the ban was enshrined in legislation.