• SeerLite
    142·
    3 years ago

    Don’t have enough energy to edit out the Reddit bits/adapt them for Lemmy

    • southerntofu
      51·
      3 years ago

      In a western context, i agree with you. But if your government banned any sign of perceived queerness by morality laws, you probably would feel like this is a radical pro-queer piece.

    • southerntofu
      72·
      3 years ago

      That’s a well-known meme from the pro-LGBT protests in 2013/2014. Not saying the guy who was arrested is the creator, or that he’s a popular hero, but here’s what the Moscow Times had to say in 2017:

      In the end, the court released Tsvetkov from any criminal liability under Article 282 (Russia’s controversial ban on hate speech, which carries a five-year maximum prison sentence), and instead ordered him to receive compulsory psychiatric care.

      Maybe not 100% correct (or at least i don’t have a reliable source for that) but really far from a “fake story” since that work is indeed banned and one person sharing it ended up in psychiatric hospital (which is just another form of prison).

      • beta_tester
        11·
        3 years ago

        So as long as it fits the purpose it doesn’t matter if it’s true or false?

        • southerntofu
          2·
          3 years ago

          Not exactly, no. It does matter if it’s true or false. But it’s normal to loose details any time the story gets passed around, as long as the heart of the story remains true: LGBT propaganda is banned in Russia, Putin hates gay people and it enrages him that people would make a queer caricature of him, and people who don’t respect that end up having problem with the repressive state apparatus.

          • beta_tester
            1·
            3 years ago

            I’d rather stay with facts. The creater of this meme either made it from his memory which would lead to alternative facts or she didn’t care about sticking to her source. If she was aware of a source, she ignored the source.

            There’s a difference in spreading facts. “Ukraine destroyed 1000 tanks” or “Ukraine destroyed 100 tanks”. The broader topic of the story remains true, Ukraine destroyed tanks, but it’s completely different for the outcome of a battle if you destroy 100 or 1000 tanks.

  • aedalla
    58·
    3 years ago

    Please don’t remind putin that the only thing good about an image of him could be him possibly being gay or a queen.