Top Russian court bans LGBT movement as 'extremist'

www.reuters.com Top Russian court bans LGBT movement as 'extremist'

Russia's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the "LGBT movement" should be designated as extremist, in a move that representatives of gay and transgender people fear will lead to arrests and prosecutions.

MOSCOW, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Russia's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that LGBT activists should be designated as extremists, in a move that representatives of gay and transgender people fear will lead to arrests and prosecutions.

A Reuters reporter in court heard it announce that it had approved a request from the justice ministry to recognise what it called "the international LGBT social movement" as extremist and to ban its activities.

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Top Russian court bans LGBT movement as 'extremist'

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Russia: where love is “extreme” and war is “love”
- Russia: Where domestic violence is not a crime, and love is a crime
- So, straight out of 1984?
  
  To be fair, Robotech 1985 taught me that love is a weapon
  We can find the glory we all dream of, and with our love, we will win
- That is in fact the cult of death worship that’s one of the signs of fascism.
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This is why I cannot consider the so-called leftists who oppose taking action against a fascist like Putin to be actual leftists. Putin is a hard right dictator who violates every principle of human rights at every turn.
- Tankies are authoritarians, the left/right angle doesn’t matter there.
  
  Inb4 "read On Authority, a book I haven't read, and if I read it I'd realize it was not pro-authoritarianism but actually anti-pacifism"
- 'Leftists' like N Korea, China, and Russia supports make me ashamed to be a leftist. This is what happens when all your leaders die 40 years ago, the movement gets silly.
  
  Don't be ashamed to be a lefty. Shame THEM for dare calling themselves leftists while espousing polite words for autocrats and dictators. They are pathetic and a detriment to progress and they need to know it.
  
  Idk the leaderless portions can be silly but we feed people to feed people, we fix up bikes to fix up bikes, we send prisoners books and propaganda to help prisoners. We may not be perfect, and our terminally online portions are terminally online, but we’re out there helping the proletariat.
- What kind of action are you referring too? What more can we do?
- They went so far authoritarian left, they ended up authoritarian right.

I guess that makes me an extremist.

I've said it before, I'll say it again: one can usually tell who the good guys are by how they treat LGBT people.
- one can usually tell who the good guys are by how they treat ~~LGBT people~~ others different than them.
  FTFY
  
  LGBT people are a convenient metric because they are a minority that exists everywhere in every society. It's how they treat a subset of their own. There's a lot more factors regarding how societies treat outside groups, if and how they encounter them.

“Stop being so fucking gay and go throw a bunch of dead kids in a hole!” —Putin
- Yes but for real

We all know that putin sucks dicks on the DL.
- And diddles little boys.

Surely this will lead to the EU and other progressive countries to open up the borders for Russians fleeing the oppression, right? Right?

To any good Russians that are left, it is way past time to start ambush killing FSB enforcers & it is literally self defense at this point.

Russia says it has a constitution but it's obviously a joke.

This is the best summary I could come up with:
MOSCOW, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Russia's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that LGBT activists should be designated as extremists, in a move that representatives of gay and transgender people fear will lead to arrests and prosecutions.
A Reuters reporter in court heard it announce that it had approved a request from the justice ministry to recognise what it called "the international LGBT social movement" as extremist and to ban its activities.
President Vladimir Putin, expected shortly to announce that he will seek a new six-year term in March, has long sought to promote an image of Russia as a guardian of traditional moral values in contrast with a decadent West.
In a speech last year, he said the West was welcome to adopt "rather strange, in my view, new-fangled trends like dozens of genders, and gay parades" but had no right to impose them on other countries.
"Of course it’s very alarming, and I don’t remember the threat ever being so serious and real," Alexei Sergeyev, an LGBT activist in St Petersburg, told Reuters TV in an interview earlier this month.
Previous listings, for example of the Jehovah's Witnesses religious movement and organisations linked to opposition politician Alexei Navalny, have served as a prelude to arrests.
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