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The paper also talks about statistics on how often gay people are beaten in Russia. United States is far worse in this respect. Further United States has a grea
by osipov 13y ago
The paper also talks about statistics on how often gay people are beaten in Russia. United States is far worse in this respect. Further United States has a greater incarceration rate for gays than Russia.
- mkr-hn 13y agoWhat's your point?
- erichocean 13y agoThat if you care about what's on paper, yeah, Russia is worse than the US. But if you care about facts on the ground—what people do, not what they say—then the US is worse than Russia. I have no idea about any of the facts, but that's what I took to be what he was saying.
- mkr-hn 13y agoI get that. I just don't see how it's relevant in a thread about Russia's laws. There's progress to be made and progress to be celebrated all over the world.
- subsection1h 13y agoSee my reply to boyter. The white paper does not adequately show that fewer "gay people are beaten in Russia".
- Crito 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes Fucking hell, the countries are even the same here...
- mkr-hn 13y agoCould Yandex get away with this?
- Crito 13y agoThe Russian search engine? I'm not sure what you mean. My comment references a Russian propaganda technique of brushing off human rights violation accusations by saying "Yeah well, the US is shitty", as though that excuses them. I suppose Yandex could in theory be used to distribute this form of propaganda, I don't really know much about them.
- mkr-hn 13y agoI misunderstood your intent.