Posted on 12/23/2021 9:52:59 PM PST by SeekAndFind
During his marathon annual year-end press conference Q&A, which this year lasted about four hours, Russian President Vladimir Putin once again vowed to defend Russian society against the intrusion of the corrupted values of the West, in particular blasting the "gender obscurantism" pushed by the United States and Europe.
"I am a proponent of the traditional approach that a woman is a woman and a man is a man," Putin laid out, which it goes without saying also reflects basic Biology 101 and humans' self-understanding for thousands upon thousands of years. He continued in the remarks on gender: "A mother is a mother, a father is a father. And I hope that our society has the internal moral protection dictated by the traditional religious denominations of the Russian Federation."
Throughout the remarks he called it basic "common sense" - which strongly suggested that the opposite is currently the rule of the day in America and the West generally, where people fear being "canceled" in their jobs and during public discourse if they don't confirm to concepts of 'gender fluidity' and Frankenstein reassignment surgeries, which is even increasingly being pushed on children.
Putin was responding to a question form a journalist over recent gender controversies in the West, and also the way it has impacted women's sports.
"And we learned to treat each other with respect. And what does it mean? That also means treating the foundations of our traditional spiritual culture with respect. All the peoples of the Russian Federation, I would like to stress, all of them have a certain internal moral protection against this obscurantism that you’ve just mentioned," the Russian leader said.
"If somebody thinks that a woman and a man are the same thing, they’re welcome to [their opinion], but a certain common sense should exist."
Holding up his country's traditional values as the "antidote" to the "new ethics", he also seemed to allude to the "spiritual values" of the Russian Orthodox Church, which has long been dominant in Russian society.
That's when he likened the West's attempts to push these things on Eastern Europe to a viral infection... "just like the coronavirus pandemic," he said...
"Just like with the coronavirus pandemic one can't escape [non-traditional values coming from abroad]. We need to look for an antidote."
At his annual press conference, Vladimir Putin is asked about cancel culture and JK Rowling's anti-trans opinions:
Putin, thru translator: "If someone thinks that a man and a woman is the same thing, well let them think that. But there is common sense." pic.twitter.com/YT4DB94XNr — The Recount (@therecount) December 23, 2021
Referring indirectly to last summer's Olympic Games in Tokyo which saw New Zealand transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard - who is a biological man - compete as a woman, Putin described situations where it's now as simple as someone "declaring that he is a woman and starts competing in weightlifting".
"And it is necessary to fight this not with direct orders and shouts and accusations but with the support for our traditional values," he asserted further. Additionally according to a description in TASS of his remarks, he "cited the example of an incident in the US when a criminal serving time for rape declared that he was female and after a transfer to a women’s prison committed the same crime in his cell."
The remarks also come at a time that multiple sports controversies have erupted in the US regarding trans competitors, particularly the ongoing saga of a University of Pennsylvania "male-to-female" swimmer who's smashing all records...
Swimming world magazine editor says trans swimmer has same advantage 'doping' provideshttps://t.co/H3zGVEj4zP — Fox News (@FoxNews) December 20, 2021
In comments earlier this year Putin called imposing transgender teaching on children a "crime against humanity"...
Every year during what the US has designated as "pride month" in June, American embassies around the world fly the rainbow flag in most embassies throughout the globe, including in Moscow and throughout Eastern Europe, where countries like Poland tend to be more conservative that Western Europe.
Of course, there's a notable exception: US embassies in conservative Muslim nations like Saudi Arabia and Iraq did not fly the rainbow flag this year. The Saudis, it should be remembered, is America's closest Arab ally and partner.
USA embassy in Moscow puts up a pride flag. Did the state department do this in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, or any other countries where being gay is a literal death sentence? https://t.co/VhK2fjP8ud — Chris Tomlinson (@TomlinsonCJ) June 30, 2020
As Putin's comments suggested, the whole trans and LGBTQ++ movement seems to be bound up with US foreign policy abroad. In prior months, Kremlin officials have accused US-based NGOs of intentionally trying to influence Russian society with these "new ethics" - resulting in a crackdown on the degree which they can freely operate. This as Russia has laws on the books that make it illegal to propagandize children on these issues outside of parental consent.
Obscurantism is an old word for gaslighting.
On this issue, I’ll use Putin (and even Calypso Louie) as a cudgel to beat the Luciferian left.
as kids, did we ever think we would root for a Russian?....now, he’s one of a very few that make any rational sense..
Gotta side with Vladimir on this one. He is a brutal tyrant but he does not appear to be insane - which is more than can be said for many politicians in Western countries.
So Putin is a communist. Why then is it easier to do business out of Russia than in the US? Who exactly are the communist totalitarians?
Perhaps. A pity that we Americans were foolish and weak enough to allow our society to be poisoned in this fashion.
Putin is ambitious. And back in Soviet times, if one had ambition, working through the Party and KGB was the only game in town. I think Putin knows from experience that Communism is a failed system.
The Tsars were every bit as authoritarian and expansionist as the current Russian government, yet we had cordial relations with them, even made the deal with them to get Alaska.
GOOD. FOR. HIM!!!!!
Simple yet true.
“Well no, Gender refers only to words, not people.”
Originally “gender” was used in grammar to distinguish noun classes, male and female, for example.
I have filled in many applications, have never seen one that asked for “gender.” They have a place to check “M” or “F”.
He’s also working very closely with Xi and the CCP.
China bans men it sees as not masculine enough from TV
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/china-bans-sissy-men-tv-crackdown-79786409
Putin's right on this...
Glad he has the courage to say the truth.
“Putin is a massive hypocrite. he worked all his life to encourage perversion in the united states...”
The Frankfurt school (communist infiltrators from Europe) originated all that, long ago, inside the United States, not Putin. And there have been antagonistic, home-grown forces that hated Christianity from about day one in the United States. Until modern times, they were held in check.
Ronald Reagan correctly referred to the Soviet Union as the Evil Empire. How ironic that a short thirty years later, the Russian leader would be championing the Christian church and try to protect his nation from the evil influences of the West.
Putin was a KGB operative during the Soviet era. It was his job. When the Soviet Union fell he worked for the newly liberated Russian republic. He may be an opportunist but he’s not a communist.
Indeed, as Olavo said, do not listen to their discourse, conservative or socialist, because they will always say what you want to hear. Instead go after the crooked characters.
I talk to regular Russians, and they are no less schizophrenic about gender de-differentiation and confusion than we are. Freud really opened the floodgates of hatred of God and of schizophrenia when he loosely interpreted Weininger for his psychoanalysis on gender. Weininger never implied to encourage people to let themselves to their natural inclinations
Stop repeating globalist lies.
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