Sorry, this piece was new to me and learned about it from a foreign source. So the author has received international notoriety. A search on this site didn’t return previous postings either.
This is a mind-blowing example how far liberals can go in their irrationality. A neighbour has back-dragged her driveway and she calls him out for supporting Trump and wants him to repent. Cleaning her driveway was so aggressive! It looks like some people have a faintest idea of being a good member of society.
As an outsider this racism thing is perceived in Russia as a farce. A Brit even told me that referring to black people as “black” was racist, but didn’t come up with a substitute. So, turns out, there are black people, bit there is no word for them.
My ESL teacher has told me that the word “Black” is nowdays offensive. However she hasn’t provided an alternative. So, this is funny: there are Black people, but there is no a word for them.
All of this has nothing to do with Soviet Union/Russia. At early stages the Bolshevick party had many insane people, but Uncle Joe had them shot among the first. They didn’t prove helpful, and Stalin needed power over a strong country. Therefore there was a ban on abortions (in his time), an extra tax on the childless people (till perestroyka) and criminalised male homosexual sex. I’m not saying that the Soviet orphans were not occasionally abused, but it was never institutional. But stealing from them, I mean the orphanages’ personnel stealing food or something was another issue.
because Bolsheviks forced perverse gender-bending on Russian children during the Soviet years.
Not exactly, but many Russians were forced by Bolsheviks into prison and there they got acquainted with prison male prostitution, therefore the image of a gay is an image of a prostitute.
However, a chief of the NKVD, certain Mr. Yezhov, was gay, and not only that, but a child molester.
I saw on the Internet a story of a Russian American who flew a Confederate flag in California, nothing happened, just his son wasn’t happy, because the children at school said his dad was a racist.
if a Russian sings something about rum that would be "Fifteen Men On the Dead Man's Chest", I can't imagine we many people know anything other than that. Even that song is something bookish. I think that these three would be more frequent: