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ngl russia is not making it easy to give critical support lol

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[-] an_engel_on_earth@hexbear.net 27 points 9 months ago

Nizhny Novgorod’s Sormovsky District Court found Yershova guilty of publicly displaying symbols of an “extremist” organization, a misdemeanor offense, and jailed her for five days

it does in fact report that it was only a five day sentence. Idk I guess Im just sad and pissed that innocent queer people are getting targeted. But I remind myself to look at the bigger picture, and not have a kneejerk response. Like Im not saying Russia needs to legalize same sex marriage or introduce anti discrimination laws, but if the situation could go back to how it was in the 90s or early 2000s where people were just left alone. Its just a part of this reactionary wave in Russia where they technically even banned gender markers: https://www.sostav.ru/publication/feminitivy-65608.html. Basically the headline says The Supreme Court has declared the use of gender markers a trait of the LGBT movement. Its a lot and it just makes me depressed for non-straight folk in the region. But I get it, I'm being a liberal by bringing attention to this. May things change one day.

[-] Kaplya@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I missed that and yes I agree with you.

[-] ikilledtheradiostar@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago

The article also mentioned a Ukrainian flag pin. Now I don't know much about people that would wear that but lots of them have also been photographed with other interesting regalia.

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

The Supreme Court has declared the use of gender markers a trait of the LGBT movement

I mean they're not wrong

[-] an_engel_on_earth@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

Im not sure if you understood exactly so just to clarify and as a Czech speaker Im sure you have the same thing of like you can transform автор (author, grammatical gender male) into авторка (authoress?,). Or like in english waiter-waitress, actor-actress. That is what the Russian Supreme Court has banned.

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Idk if it's a ban per se, it's a trait of the LGBT movement that they're banning. The point is to bring it up I guess and see if they like queer people, and if you have enough traits you will be censored

[-] an_engel_on_earth@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

Well yes, but you realize it's not a LGBTQ thing? These are regular suffixes that everybody uses in their speech. I suppose you could make an argument that they are used more extensively by socially liberal people, but its rly not something that's indicative of political beliefs or affiliation. It is flat out ridiculous.

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah obviously, but the point of displaying them next to our name or bio is obviously a pro LGBT thing, and a feminist visibility thing (another thing they scare monger over)

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