More than once I’ve overheard someone say with annoyance, “Gay people are so loud about their rights.” This is why we all need to be. True equality never came quietly.
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Associated with the video below is this campaign from Human Rights Watch to change your Facebook avatar in support of LGBT treatment and rights in Russia. Take it seriously. As an old professor once told me: “Our every act is political. There’s politics in the fabric of our jeans and there’s politics in our food choices. Each small act creates the buzz for change.”
To change:
This was horrible and obviously wrong but ….
I’ve seen little to nothing with respect to the estimated 100,000 Christians who are killed every year (BBC) or the beheading of a Catholic Priest in front of a cheering crowd.
ALL of it is wrong, ALL of it is inhuman.
Can you come with a link for that story?
First time I saw footage from neo-nazi violence in Russia was in 2009, against random ‘non-russian’ people that they could find on the streets at broad daylight. That was also wrong and is still wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Russia
http://theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/10/why-russia-is-growing-more-xenophobic/280766/