Boycott God! He created homosexuals.

the boycott of russian goods in response to their vile 'pro family' legislation seems to fulfill a russian soviet era joek template, 'how can you boycott us when we don't produce anything worth buying'

Svedka ftw

Thats swedish iirc

lol @ me :(

xp I know

ha

It's amazing that ostensibly sensible people, some of them Russian, haven't worked out that the easiest way to get Russians to support something is to tell them that Americans want to stop them doing it. I doubt the majority of people care either way about the law in question but there isn't much more sacred than national political autonomy. It's one of the cornerstones of Putin's appeal.

The reporting doesn't really help either. The situation is fucked but claiming that "Russia has effectively banned homosexuality" or that the state gives tacit approval to neo-Nazi murder creates even more of a credibility gap.

never forget this fantastic bit of politicking devised by the new editor of newsnight ian katz

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vote2004/2004-11-04-brits-letters_x.htm

there is also the structural problem that countries with violent or repressive laws against homosexuality tend to treat it as a foreign & therefore invasive pathology, so a boycott by the west confirms the messages of nationalists and orthodox prelates, 'this is a western plague'

robert mugabe shits on obama by claiming that someone of african ancestry should know better than to export degenerate western values (like not executing homosexuals) to african nations as a condition of aid

Exactly-ish.