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Tokyo Olympics sparks anti-LGBT slurs on Russian TV (BBC)
BBC ^ | 2021-08-03 | Vitaly Shevchenko

Posted on 08/04/2021 2:37:17 PM PDT by Salman

The participation of openly gay, lesbian and transgender athletes in the Tokyo Olympics has led to an upsurge in anti-LGBT commentary on Russian state TV.

Extremely offensive language, some of which appears in this article, was used by the hosts and guests on talk shows aired by the country's two most popular television channels.

Even though the Kremlin has tended to not publicly support anti-LGBT sentiment, it fits in with the state ideology of defending Russia's "traditional values" against the West.

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One of the panellists, Alexei Zhuravlyov, who is a member of the Russian parliament, said he was "disgusted" by gay and transgender people.

"We stand opposed to all this smut and perversion, strongly opposed," he told the show, pointing at the studio screen which showed Hubbard.

"We stand against this abomination," he shouted. At one point, Zhuravlyov used an offensive Russian word to describe gay men.

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"I do not think transgender people have any prospects in Russia, because they love men, while Russian men love women," said Spiridon Kilinkarov, a former member of the Ukrainian parliament.

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(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fdrq; homosexualagenda; olympics
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Also check out the pic at lnk captioned "State TV presenter mocks transgender athletes by donning a wig".
1 posted on 08/04/2021 2:37:17 PM PDT by Salman
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To: Salman

Man...I hate it when the Ruskies are on the right side of this issue and we’re not.


2 posted on 08/04/2021 2:39:10 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Salman

LOL


3 posted on 08/04/2021 2:39:32 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: ealgeone

Five hundred channels on US cable TV, and not one that tells the truth about the perverts...


4 posted on 08/04/2021 2:40:48 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Salman

Offensive language describing offensive behavior


5 posted on 08/04/2021 2:41:23 PM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: Salman

Right now, I’d much rather watch Russian TV than the BBC. Russian TV make a heck of a lot more sense.


6 posted on 08/04/2021 2:41:27 PM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: cgbg

Very true. If anything, they’re actively and overtly promoting it.


7 posted on 08/04/2021 2:41:40 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: cgbg; ealgeone
Five hundred channels on US cable TV, and not one that tells the truth about the perverts...

They dare not. Otherwise, they'll be Anita Bryant'ed.

8 posted on 08/04/2021 2:46:40 PM PDT by fwdude ( )
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To: fwdude

She was an early casualty in the advancement of perversion. We should have been more proactive in defending her. We might could have stopped or delayed this mess.


9 posted on 08/04/2021 2:50:07 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: mrmeyer
It's a sad day when allegedly conservative people of reason swallow Russian propaganda hook, line, and sinker.

These SOBs would sell their mothers and stream Will and Grace 24/7 on RT if they thought it would give them a leg up on America or yield them more power. People holding "Christian Values" don't poison the head of the Ukraine. I don't buy this values claptrap at all. Liars gonna lie.

I guess all you have to do is dangle some anti-gay et al rhetoric in front of some "conservatives" and they surrender their mind and love of country. I thought their sellout point would be higher.

10 posted on 08/04/2021 2:51:23 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: Salman

Russians seem to be resisting globalist filth and disorder. Very powerful forces in this world wish to bring them to heal or destroy them using Western sons, blood and treasure. The enemy of my enemy... Flame away but realize whom you’re serving.


11 posted on 08/04/2021 2:51:24 PM PDT by Kinzua (What have we allowed to happen?)
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To: ealgeone

It’s happening much more often these days.


12 posted on 08/04/2021 2:56:11 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: Salman

Yay perversion and insanity!


13 posted on 08/04/2021 2:56:26 PM PDT by nagant
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To: ealgeone

The Russians have flipped on the issue since their communist days.

I guess that is a good sign for us that this insanity will eventually pass !


14 posted on 08/04/2021 2:56:36 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: Salman
Why is it perfectly fine to slur Christians but completely verboten to slur sexual perverts?

Here is one example that is ongoing and hardly ever criticized.

Girl in a jacket

Girl in a jacket

Girl in a jacket

Girl in a jacket

15 posted on 08/04/2021 2:56:39 PM PDT by fwdude ( )
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To: DoodleBob

Perhaps the spirit of Western, Christian civilization will be preserved a little further East than we imagined. Where else is the bulwark? Maybe Hungary, but they have no might.


16 posted on 08/04/2021 2:57:17 PM PDT by Kinzua (What have we allowed to happen?)
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To: Salman

It’s Russia. They don’t have to pander to deviance.


17 posted on 08/04/2021 2:57:23 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (I do not recognize Biden’s authority.)
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To: Salman
Well, queers are offensive people scum.
18 posted on 08/04/2021 2:58:01 PM PDT by Bikkuri (If you're conservative, you're an "extremist." If you're liberal, you're an "activist.")
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To: ealgeone
We should have been more proactive in defending her. We might could have stopped or delayed this mess.

The Gaystapo had made deep inroads in the culture by this time, and they lies were more and more being believed and broadcast by a complicit media. The APA had already fallen to the perverts a few years earlier (1973) and that emboldened them and gave them the creds to go after anyone who didn't abide by the "science." Turns out Anita was completely right.

19 posted on 08/04/2021 3:00:26 PM PDT by fwdude ( )
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To: DoodleBob

What a long virtue signaling trip it’s been, eh DB?


20 posted on 08/04/2021 3:02:22 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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