For example, i recently read an article about the dire situation of LGBT soldiers in the Ukrainian army. As gay marriage is illegal there, people can’t even burry their partner when he has fallen in battle. Many have to completely hide who they are. But instead of calling that out openly, it was burried deep in the article, which started out with emphasizing how patriotic the queer community in Ukraine is. It just went on and on telling us how much the gays love fighting for a state that constantly oppresses them. As a cherry on top, the whole thing was illustrated with a picture of a car flying rainbow and Ukrainian flags. Absolutely sickening how they instrumentalize LGBT people and pinkwash Selenski’s reactionary regime.
This is an extremely precise strategy honestly, it makes Russians and the rest of the third world continue to embrace reactionary views and hate these minorities even more giving them an excuse to throw even more of those bodies on the line. The whole Russian society is already socially conservative and the anti-lgbtq narrative is only getting stronger.
Given the material they are exposed to e.g “just look at these brave gay people fighting alongside my enemy” [insert glorious western media article about it here], not justifiable but easily explainable and as I said exactly according to the plan.
The generational shift will make TV irrelevant even for old people. When millennials “retire”(:data-laughing:) they’ll still be on twitter. In other words the problem is inevitable sorting itself out.