Russia's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the "LGBT movement" should be designated as extremist, in a move that representatives of gay and transgender people fear will lead to arrests and prosecutions.

MOSCOW, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Russia’s Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that LGBT activists should be designated as extremists, in a move that representatives of gay and transgender people fear will lead to arrests and prosecutions.

A Reuters reporter in court heard it announce that it had approved a request from the justice ministry to recognise what it called “the international LGBT social movement” as extremist and to ban its activities.

  • FriendOfElphaba@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    52·
    2 years ago

    This is why I cannot consider the so-called leftists who oppose taking action against a fascist like Putin to be actual leftists. Putin is a hard right dictator who violates every principle of human rights at every turn.

    • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
      461·
      2 years ago

      Tankies are authoritarians, the left/right angle doesn’t matter there.

      • anarchost@lemm.eeEnglish
        71·
        2 years ago

        Inb4 “read On Authority, a book I haven’t read, and if I read it I’d realize it was not pro-authoritarianism but actually anti-pacifism”

        • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
          55·
          2 years ago

          Yeah, no.

          As an anarchist, it’s just authoritarianism.

          Fuck your hierarchies and top-down systems of oppression. Fuck supporting genocidal dictators.

          Go read the conquest of bread and liberate yourself.

    • Stamau123@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      211·
      2 years ago

      ‘Leftists’ like N Korea, China, and Russia supports make me ashamed to be a leftist. This is what happens when all your leaders die 40 years ago, the movement gets silly.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        2 years ago

        Idk the leaderless portions can be silly but we feed people to feed people, we fix up bikes to fix up bikes, we send prisoners books and propaganda to help prisoners. We may not be perfect, and our terminally online portions are terminally online, but we’re out there helping the proletariat.

        • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          That’s like a republican saying “we donated to a charity” while pushing for a bill that would restrict black peoples right to vote.

          You can’t claim to be helping us while in the same breath actively working for our long term oppression.