Russian Court Jails Woman for Wearing 'Extremist' Rainbow Earrings - The Moscow Times
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A court in the central Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod has jailed a woman for wearing rainbow earrings, the human rights group Egida reported late Wednesday, marking the second case of its kind after Russia banned the so-called “LGBT movement” as an “extremist” organization in November.   According to Egida, law enforcement agents tasked with combating “extremism” detained the woman after a group of “aggressive people” approached her and her friend at a local cafe and filmed them on camera.
  • qooqie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1222·
    11 months ago

    I’m not sorry, but if colors offend you, you might be really fragile and not as manly as you’d like to think

    And if you use religion as an excuse to be a bigot remember your god made everyone and everything so hating colors kinda like saying you’re afraid of your own gods creations.

    • MxM111@kbin.social
      183·
      11 months ago

      That’s not what is going on there. Unfortunately for Russian LGBT community, LGPT suppression is selected as anti Western anti democracy propaganda point. People are brainwashed into believing that it is something evil.

      • Inky@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        Prejudices against the LGBT community are already present in so many people that you don’t need brainwashing. Instead, this is about leveraging and amplifying the existing prejudice for political purposes.

    • stoly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      252·
      11 months ago

      lol if you ask for it the brigade of angry people will appear to explain how you’re a racist and a terrible person for not thinking like them

      But first they will deflect by asking you to define what a tankie is.

      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        They did. I still see their users here and there though.They did. I still see their users here and there though. Well definitely hexbear and lemmygrad. I dunno if they defederated from ml.

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
      101·
      11 months ago

      I’m just waiting on all the Hexbear users who see no irony praising both LGBTQ+ and russia.

      If they ever moved to russia, they would instantly be killed.

      • Colour_me_triggered@lemm.eeEnglish
        8·
        11 months ago

        They would be sent to push up sunflowers in Avdiivka it takes a week for basic training and an hour or so to walk within Ukrainian artillery range. Not exactly instant, but close.

    • Urist@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      91·
      11 months ago

      No no no, you don’t understand, Russia has (in the past) implemented my favorite economic system (please ignore all the people who died as political criminals), thus nothing they do is wrong. Rainbow earrings are just a small casualty, you gotta look big picture!

      • nicetriangle@kbin.social
        131·
        11 months ago

        As if tankies aren’t constantly simping for both Russia and China on here.

        A little history refresher on the origin of the term

        The term “tankie” was originally used by dissident Marxist–Leninists to describe members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) who followed the party line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Specifically, it was used to distinguish party members who spoke out in defense of the Soviet use of tanks to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring uprising, or who more broadly adhered to pro-Soviet positions.

        So specifically being a tankie and supporting fascist bullshit go hand in hand and always have.

        • dan1101@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          The Russian and English aristocracies were related, is that maybe part of the reason there was some support in the UK?

          • nicetriangle@kbin.social
            2·
            11 months ago

            The Russian monarchy ended about 39 years prior to the Hungarian Revolution in '56. The whole Russian Revolution thing and the murdering of the Romanovs and all that.

        • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          11 months ago

          I must admit that I haven’t met any who do so can’t argue for or against this. I can understand that they might have done 20-30 years ago but I don’t see them “simpling for” any of them really. But neither Russia or China are kommunist regimes any longer. Maybe back when the term was coined, as you described in your quote but not any longer. Before it dead the community now it is the leader

          • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.socialEnglish
            36·
            11 months ago

            I like to imagine these accounts learned about tankies only 6 months ago when they joined Lemmy and were encountered by lots of leftists with wildly different international worldviews than them.

            As a byproduct, it’s just their way of making sense of those differences they don’t otherwise understand.

            Nobody that they’re describing would actually defend shit like this, but thats about as well as they understand those people.

  • Mango@lemmy.worldEnglish
    271·
    11 months ago

    Bro, I wanna see Russia declare war on the sky and try to knock down a rainbow.

  • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    25·
    11 months ago

    This joke of a country has turned into a massive gulag. Next thing they will arrest every man who doesn’t get hard enough seeing the exposed ankle of a woman.

  • KuroeNekoDemon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    72·
    11 months ago

    Ah Russia you keep teaching me not to go to you or the deep south/midwest US. At least I won’t go to jail or get shot on the street in Canada or the EU for being LGBTQ+