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Behind the Aegis

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Fri Sep 11, 2020, 03:09 PM Sep 2020

Not content with harassing queer adults, Putin is now targeting kids

More disturbing news from Russia: the Putin government has ordered teachers in St. Petersberg to monitor and identify queer students via social media accounts. The government has also demanded all the personal information of said students be turned over to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for punishment.

The Russian activist organization LGBT Network released a statement this week following the acquisition of emails to teachers from government agencies. In the emails, teachers are ordered to assess the social media accounts of their students and draw up dossiers, noting if any pro-queer language or symbols such as the Pride Flag appear on their pages. Instructors then must turn the personal details–including names, addresses, and descriptions of each student–over to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for processing.

The Putin administration justifies this kind of “monitoring” of students, aged 10-17, as a means of identifying “minors against whom illegal acts have been committed, or who have committed an offense or antisocial acts.”

“It turns out that the administration considers only the fact of placing the rainbow flag by schoolchildren as an offense or antisocial act that should be punished. This is simply unacceptable,” said Svetlana Zakharova, a member of the Russian LGBT Network.

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Coming soon to an American city near you?!

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Not content with harassing queer adults, Putin is now targeting kids (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Sep 2020 OP
Based on the idea that they can be "cured" I suppose? tgenerico Sep 2020 #1
 

tgenerico

(109 posts)
1. Based on the idea that they can be "cured" I suppose?
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 12:10 PM
Sep 2020

Or "protecting" them, right?

The Orthodox Church is behind this of course. Putin is born again you know. Since 1992.

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