Topic: Russia: minority think queers should be executed
Hephaestion
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posted 03 November 2005 08:27 AM
Well, hey, it IS a minority...
quote:(QD) A Levada poll found that 20 percent of Russians believe that gay people should be executed. Meanwhile, 51 percent said that they were in favor of equality for gay and lesbian people. Unlinkable source.
... and 51% are tolerant and favour equality? Hey, that's a definite improvement...
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Crippled_Newsie
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posted 03 November 2005 08:47 AM
I have to wonder if that's not just a baseline number... name any given group and 20% of Russians reflexively say, 'Execute 'em!'
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Nanuq
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posted 03 November 2005 04:01 PM
I wonder what the results would be if you tried polling Canadians or Americans with the same question. Especially if you broke it down across regions.
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kuri
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posted 03 November 2005 04:26 PM
I would be really shocked and appalled if any significant numbers of Canadians or Americans supported something as extreme as execution!
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Hephaestion
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posted 03 November 2005 04:48 PM
quote:Originally posted by Nanuq:
I wonder what the results would be if you tried polling Canadians or Americans with the same question. Especially if you broke it down across regions.
Poll: Minority of Calgarians think Edmontonians are queers who should be executed...
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Vigilante
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posted 03 November 2005 07:39 PM
It's a great pitty that the Red Fascists more or less destroyed the sexual revolution that was raging during the revolution as documented by Vera Schmidt.
They can recieve alot of the blame for this. Sex is the one of the 1st things that the sacred and civility must reign in. Particularly in a Platonic based region that is Western Civilization.
posted 03 November 2005 07:44 PM
I read that a minority of progressive Canadians think homophobic people everywhere should be executed. I can't support their views myself, but gosh, it's got to mean something?
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quote:MOSCOW, November 3, 2005 – Russian gays are celebrating today after a proposed legislation that would limit the right to freedom of public events was emphatically rejected by the Duma yesterday evening in its ‘first reading’.
Support for the bill came from just 94 of the 450-member Duma, Russia’s lower house. This was 130 votes short of the 226 needed for the bill to go forward for a second reading.
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Hephaestion
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posted 04 November 2005 09:58 AM
I always knew the Ruskies were more civilized than either the Reformatories OR the Republikkkans...
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DrConway
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posted 04 November 2005 12:15 PM
That's a helluva one-eighty there, Heph, in your confidence in the Russians.
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Hephaestion
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posted 04 November 2005 12:22 PM
Oh, it's not really confidence in the Russians so much; it's disgust with the other two...
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Crippled_Newsie
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posted 04 November 2005 03:38 PM
quote:Originally posted by DrConway: That's a helluva one-eighty there, Heph, in your confidence in the Russians.
Heph has hit a wet patch and is now madly hydroplaning... pay no attention.
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Hephaestion
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posted 04 November 2005 04:04 PM
*ugh* The Wet Spot...
Seriously, though... I'd bet it's a higher percentage than twenty in both the Red States and the Reformatory stronghold areas of Canada that would secretly like to see the all queers executed...
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