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    Shakespeare flagged as ‘far right’ literature in UK

    The works of the British playwright were among those reportedly included in a list of ‘key texts’ read by white nationalists



    Quote Several of the UK’s most respected television shows, movies and works of literature have been included in a list of works that could potentially encourage far-right sympathies, compiled by the taxpayer-funded and government-led ‘Prevent’ counter-terrorism programme, according to the Daily Mail.

    Works by JRR Tolkien, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell and even William Shakespeare, as well as classic movies ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’ and ‘The Great Escape’ were cited in a list published by the British paper on Saturday as being highlighted by the counter-terrorism watchdog, for their potential use by far-right agitators to promote troublesome viewpoints online.

    “This is truly extraordinary,” historian and broadcaster Andrew Roberts said of the list to the tabloid. “This is the reading list of anyone who wants a civilized, liberal, cultural education.

    “It includes some of the greatest works in the Western canon and in some cases – such as Joseph Conrad’s ‘The Secret Agent’ – powerful critiques of terrorism. [Edmund] Burke, Orwell and Tolkien were all anti-totalitarian writers.”

    In addition to movies and works of literature, television shows such as the original ‘House of Cards’ series and even the BBC’s ‘Great British Railway Journeys,’ presented by former Conservative politician Michael Portillo, are mentioned by ‘Prevent’ as being potentially attractive to people with far-right viewpoints.

    It said in a recent report by its Research Information and Communication Unit (RICU) that far-right corners of the internet had promoted ‘reading lists’ and ‘important texts,’ as well as other media which could potentially stoke radicalism online.

    The ‘Prevent’ counter-terrorism programme was set up by the British government in 2011 as a means to safeguard against “vulnerable people being drawn into criminal behaviour,” with an emphasis on combating ultra-right groups and Islamic extremism.

    However, a recent audit of its practices found that ‘Prevent’ “often falls well short of the extremism threshold altogether” and that it “has a double-standard when dealing with the extreme right-wing and Islamism.”

    Amnesty International has also been highly critical of the project, saying it is “deeply prejudiced” and has “no legitimacy”.

    Despite its perceived failings, as highlighted by the review into its standards and practices, major changes are not expected in the management of ‘Prevent,’ which has operational costs of £49 million per year.

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    Scott Adams' Dilbert cartoon cancelled: (7 minutes)



    And this is what Scott said to cause that:


    Source: https://www.bitchute.com/video/eeGbmC01Xja0/

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    Gary Lineker has been told to step back from his role as presenter on Match of the Day..

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/w...f-the-day.html

    Quote By Michael Levenson and Tariq Panja
    Published March 10, 2023Updated March 11, 2023, 5:13 a.m. ET

    A beloved soccer program that has been a mainstay on British television since the 1960s has been thrown into turmoil after the BBC suspended the program’s host, the former English soccer star Gary Lineker, over comments that he made criticizing the Conservative government’s immigration policy.

    By Saturday, the decision to remove Mr. Lineker from the program, “Match of the Day,” had sparked a boycott drew in not only his co-hosts, but also their potential replacements, related play-by-play commentators, and even players and coaches from the Premier League, which told the 12 teams set to play on Saturday that they would not receive interview requests — possibly to spare the broadcaster the indignity of having them rejected.

    The BBC released a statement late Friday saying that “Match of the Day” would go ahead as scheduled, but without hosts or commentary. Instead, a spokesman for the BBC said, the program, which is watched by millions every week, will “focus on match action without studio presentation or punditry.”
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    The whole article/situation is farcical and vomit inducing.

    The BBC has to retain its stance on impartiality! That is so laughable considering their coverage of the Ukraine situation to name just one current mess.

    If it continues like this no opinion, except the ones dictated to you, will be able to be expressed without repercussions in all walks of life - it is already fast heading that way. I don't even agree with Lineker's comments with respect to a much bigger picture but he sure had the right to express them.

    The BBC should chage it's name now to the BGBC - the British Government Broadcasting Corporation (incorporating paedophile protection as standard. Jimmy Saville Jill Dando*).

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    Quote Following the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal a claim was made that Dando had investigated a paedophile ring at the BBC during the mid-1990s and had handed a dossier containing her findings to BBC management, purportedly prompting a revenge attack. The BBC said it had seen no evidence to support the claim

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    Gary Lineker has been told to step back from his role as presenter on Match of the Day..
    Wow. There's quite some backlash. For non-Brits, Lineker, an ex-England footballer of quite some fame, was and is an immensely popular and likeable TV personality.

    Here's the real-time live news feed on this, as dozens of his friends and colleagues stand up to support him.

    https://bbc.com/news/live/entertainment-arts-64895316

    Summary as of the time of this post:

    ~~~

    What's the latest?

    If you're just joining us, fall-out from the Gary Lineker row is coming thick and fast, so here's a quick recap:
    • Football presenters have been pulling out of key BBC programmes in support of Lineker after he was told to "step back" from Match Of The Day.
    • Football Focus has been replaced by Bargain Hunt on the BBC One schedule, shortly after presenter Alex Scott said it "doesn't feel right" to go ahead with the show.
    • Final Score also disappeared from the BBC One list, with The Repair Shop now listed for 4:30pm after presenter Jason Mohammad also said he would not appear today.
    • Presenter Colin Murray said BBC 5 Live's Fighting Talk was not airing today "for obvious reasons", which he said was "a decision taken by the entire FT team and myself".
    • Match Of The Day pundit Ian Wright has said he'll quit if the BBC "gets rid" of Lineker.
    • Greg Dyke, a former director general of the BBC, said the corporation was "mistaken" to take Lineker off air.
    • The BBC has not commented this morning, but yesterday it said it considered Lineker's tweets a breach of its guidelines and that he will remain off air until it gets "an agreed and clear position on his use of social media".
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    Yes, the Gary Lineker furore is very much on the lips of most people in the UK right now and I'm getting the popcorn ready. Strangely, my "mainstream" friends are mostly of the opinion that he should be fired, except for one Jewish friend who sees the connection with Freedom of Speech and not as anti-semitic rhetoric. And while protesting about Lineker's comments about 1930s Germany (who is also Jewish btw), they say nothing about MP Suella Braverman's comments about the Refugees, herself a second generation immigrant. As for the BBC, they're prepared to shield paedophiles (Jimmy Savile) for years, not to mention helping to secure huge loans for incompetent Prime Ministers (Boris Johnson) but bow to the left wing militant MPs.

    As usual hypocrisy rules the waves in Britannia.
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    As far as I know, this guy has not been expelled yet. It seems to me that his university should offer a class on "the problem with academia."'


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    Cancel Culture backfires


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    This isn't exactly about cancel culture, but it really has more to do with a culture that definitely needs to be cancelled. I don't normally look at social media but I came across this and at first thought it was a joke, although it would have been in poor taste. Just when I thought our US culture couldn't sink any lower I read this. Apparently the actual incident occurred several years ago, but it went as far as the court system where the 6 year old, maybe older at the time had her case thrown out.

    The "offense" that this child was arrested and handcuffed for was kicking a teacher. That could have been dealt with a hundred other ways. Eventually the cop who was assigned to the school was fired because he didn't consult his supervisor before arresting the child, and apparently the principal said she would prefer not arresting the kid, the reality is no one stopped this hideous process until it went to the courts. That means no one at any point said this is insane, I am not going to participate in this. They booked this terrorized kid, they fingerprinted her , the whole nine yards.

    A Warning this is very disturbing to watch. I am sure this kid will be forever traumatized over this event. It turns out this cop was hired with some indication of past domestic violence and then thrown in a school.



    Quote 6 year old gets arrested by police while crying for help


    https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/co..._while_crying/

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    This is beyond heartbreaking... how on earth could any adult be comfortable doing such an act to a six year old.
    Truly heart breaking.

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    Very funny and a small sign that the tide is turning.

    Bill Maher Honors Those Who Fought Cancel Culture With ‘The Cojones Awards’ On ‘Real Time’


    Bill Maher touched on a number of topics during last night’s episode of Real Time, including Fox News‘ $787.5M settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, but cancel culture was front and center once again.

    The HBO host shared that he was moderating a discussion at a prominent Hollywood producer’s home about a year-and-a-half ago when the idea for “The Cojones Awards” was conceived.

    Although it never came to fruition, he has now decided to make it an annual staple on his show. The makeshift awards segment, complete with brass trophies (of testicles), honors “the brave people who have fought back” against cancel culture.

    He presented the first award to Martha Pollack, the president of his alma mater Cornell University, for standing up to students who “demanded trigger warnings before all the lectures in case any of the adult subjects you specifically went to college to learn about came up.” Maher said Pollack responded by not caving in or hiring a new “Dean of Sensitivity” but instead simply said no, explaining that “college is for introducing you to new ideas.”

    He quipped that he’s “just amazed at how this generation can simultaneously be too sensitive for anything distasteful and somehow also so into eating a**.”

    His next award went to Trader Joe’s for responding to a petition claiming that their beer, Trader José, was racist and should be rebranded. Maher joked that management “did the right thing” and burned down all their stores and killed themselves.

    “No!,” he exclaimed, “they didn’t. They said f**k off you oversensitive little s**ts. Get a life and a sense of humor.” He then shared the statement they released which read “we disagree that any of these labels are racist and we do not make decisions based on petitions.”

    One of his final two awards went to Ted Sarandos for standing up to dozens of Netflix employees who walked out “over Dave Chappelle‘s reckless decision to perform comedy on his comedy special.” Maher said he responded by reminding employees that “comedy exists to push boundaries.”

    Maher’s last award went to Ben Stiller for responding to critics of his film Tropic Thunder. Stiller tweeted that he makes no apologies for the movie and that it has always been a controversial title since they opened, adding that he’s proud of it and the work everyone did on it.

    The overall point of Maher’s awards segment was to show people that “if you stand up to the mob for just a day or two, their shallow, impatient, immature, smartphone-driven gerbil minds will forget about it and go on to the next nothing burger and you still will have your cojones.”

    You can watch Maher’s full Cojones Awards segment above and catch new episodes of Real Time on HBO on Fridays at 10PM ET.

    Source: https://decider.com/2023/04/22/bill-...-on-real-time/

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    Concerns over sex content leads Florida schools to pull Shakespeare
    By Jeffrey S. SolochekTimes staff
    Published Aug. 8|Updated Aug. 8
    https://www.tampabay.com/news/educat...l-shakespeare/


    The big story: After Florida adopted its Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking standards in 2020, the Department of Education distributed recommended reading lists it said included “top of the line literary works with world renowned titles.”

    Authors on the high school list included William Shakespeare.

    Three years later, some Florida school districts are shying away from Shakespeare, along with other classic and popular materials. They say they’re attempting to comply with new state law restricting books with and instruction about sexual content.

    Hillsborough County became the latest to take this step, telling teachers they could assign excerpts of plays such as “Romeo and Juliet,” but not the full text.

    “I think the rest of the nation — no, the world, is laughing us,” Gaither High teacher Joseph Cool said after learning of the directive. “Taking Shakespeare in its entirety out because the relationship between Romeo and Juliet is somehow exploiting minors is just absurd.”

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    Gay emojis must be banned – Russian MP
    Some of the pictograms used in smartphones promote LGBTQ values in violation of the country’s laws, Aleksey Zhuravlev has said
    https://www.rt.com/russia/591088-lgbtq-emoji-ban-duma/

    At least two dozen emojis found in smartphones promote nontraditional sexual relations and should be banned in Russia, the first deputy chairman of the parliamentary defense committee, Aleksey Zhuravlev has stated.



    Some pictograms depict “same-sex couples with children, kissing men, kissing women, a pregnant man, a male-bride with a mustache, bearded women” and others, the lawmaker told Rossiyskaya Gazeta on Friday. Zhuravlev is the leader of the Rodina (Motherland) party and a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) in the State Duma.

    Emojis are mainly employed in instant messengers and social media sites, which are the most popular platforms among users, he noted.

    “All this is seen by kids, who constantly send those emojis to each other,” Zhuravlev said.

    The MP pointed out that a law banning LGBTQ propaganda in Russia is already in force, insisting that the pictograms represent “exactly the type of propaganda” that it’s supposed to tackle.

    “Measures must be taken to remove those emojis and block their use in Russia,” he declared.

    A ban on disseminating LGBTQ material among those aged under 18 was introduced in Russia in 2013.

    In 2022, the legislation was expanded to include both minors and adults. The law on the “protection of traditional values” made it illegal to promote LGBTQ, pedophilia, and sex changes in advertising, books, movies, and media.

    In November last year, Russia’s Supreme Court outlawed the “international LGBTQ public movement,” designating it an extremist organization.

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    Gay emojis must be banned – Russian MP
    Some of the pictograms used in smartphones promote LGBTQ values in violation of the country’s laws, Aleksey Zhuravlev has said
    https://www.rt.com/russia/591088-lgbtq-emoji-ban-duma/

    At least two dozen emojis found in smartphones promote nontraditional sexual relations and should be banned in Russia, the first deputy chairman of the parliamentary defense committee, Aleksey Zhuravlev has stated.



    Some pictograms depict “same-sex couples with children, kissing men, kissing women, a pregnant man, a male-bride with a mustache, bearded women” and others, the lawmaker told Rossiyskaya Gazeta on Friday. Zhuravlev is the leader of the Rodina (Motherland) party and a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) in the State Duma.

    Emojis are mainly employed in instant messengers and social media sites, which are the most popular platforms among users, he noted.

    “All this is seen by kids, who constantly send those emojis to each other,” Zhuravlev said.

    The MP pointed out that a law banning LGBTQ propaganda in Russia is already in force, insisting that the pictograms represent “exactly the type of propaganda” that it’s supposed to tackle.

    “Measures must be taken to remove those emojis and block their use in Russia,” he declared.

    A ban on disseminating LGBTQ material among those aged under 18 was introduced in Russia in 2013.

    In 2022, the legislation was expanded to include both minors and adults. The law on the “protection of traditional values” made it illegal to promote LGBTQ, pedophilia, and sex changes in advertising, books, movies, and media.

    In November last year, Russia’s Supreme Court outlawed the “international LGBTQ public movement,” designating it an extremist organization.
    As liberal as I am, to my core, I agree with the above. These emojis, along with so much social media, are deconstructing society as we have know it since year dot!

    Confuse the kids, tell parents they have to understand. It is MADNESS - except it is an agenda, a narrative, for more control - by design.

    The nuclear family is all but gone, the local community, at least in the west, clings on by the barest margins. In cities they don't even know their neighbours name. The key is to remove all sense of identity and replace it with whatever they decide is fashionable, control, control, control - and hope they (the sheeples) don't notice.

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    Quote Posted by Ewan (here)
    Quote Posted by Kryztian (here)
    Gay emojis must be banned – Russian MP
    Some of the pictograms used in smartphones promote LGBTQ values in violation of the country’s laws, Aleksey Zhuravlev has said
    https://www.rt.com/russia/591088-lgbtq-emoji-ban-duma/

    At least two dozen emojis found in smartphones promote nontraditional sexual relations and should be banned in Russia, the first deputy chairman of the parliamentary defense committee, Aleksey Zhuravlev has stated.



    Some pictograms depict “same-sex couples with children, kissing men, kissing women, a pregnant man, a male-bride with a mustache, bearded women” and others, the lawmaker told Rossiyskaya Gazeta on Friday. Zhuravlev is the leader of the Rodina (Motherland) party and a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) in the State Duma.

    Emojis are mainly employed in instant messengers and social media sites, which are the most popular platforms among users, he noted.

    “All this is seen by kids, who constantly send those emojis to each other,” Zhuravlev said.

    The MP pointed out that a law banning LGBTQ propaganda in Russia is already in force, insisting that the pictograms represent “exactly the type of propaganda” that it’s supposed to tackle.

    “Measures must be taken to remove those emojis and block their use in Russia,” he declared.

    A ban on disseminating LGBTQ material among those aged under 18 was introduced in Russia in 2013.

    In 2022, the legislation was expanded to include both minors and adults. The law on the “protection of traditional values” made it illegal to promote LGBTQ, pedophilia, and sex changes in advertising, books, movies, and media.

    In November last year, Russia’s Supreme Court outlawed the “international LGBTQ public movement,” designating it an extremist organization.
    As liberal as I am, to my core, I agree with the above. These emojis, along with so much social media, are deconstructing society as we have know it since year dot!

    Confuse the kids, tell parents they have to understand. It is MADNESS - except it is an agenda, a narrative, for more control - by design.

    The nuclear family is all but gone, the local community, at least in the west, clings on by the barest margins. In cities they don't even know their neighbours name. The key is to remove all sense of identity and replace it with whatever they decide is fashionable, control, control, control - and hope they (the sheeples) don't notice.

    It's a tricky one.

    I'm no fan of censorship. Nor am I in any way homophobic. But sadly the gay community (if there is such a thing) and the rest of the LGBTQ community have been co-opted and weaponized by the woke Marxists. And they're not playing a fair game. It's sort of like terrorists hiding amidst innocent citizens to avoid attack.

    I don't think it's necessarily an anti-gay act by the Russians. It's more like an anti-woke act. Woke Marxists always hide their quest for power behind the LGBTQ flag. Surely they're screaming homopboia and bigotry atm, but I don't think that trick works quite as well in Russia.

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    Quote Posted by Ewan (here)
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    Gay emojis must be banned – Russian MP
    Some of the pictograms used in smartphones promote LGBTQ values in violation of the country’s laws, Aleksey Zhuravlev has said
    https://www.rt.com/russia/591088-lgbtq-emoji-ban-duma/

    At least two dozen emojis found in smartphones promote nontraditional sexual relations and should be banned in Russia, the first deputy chairman of the parliamentary defense committee, Aleksey Zhuravlev has stated.



    Some pictograms depict “same-sex couples with children, kissing men, kissing women, a pregnant man, a male-bride with a mustache, bearded women” and others, the lawmaker told Rossiyskaya Gazeta on Friday. Zhuravlev is the leader of the Rodina (Motherland) party and a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) in the State Duma.

    Emojis are mainly employed in instant messengers and social media sites, which are the most popular platforms among users, he noted.

    “All this is seen by kids, who constantly send those emojis to each other,” Zhuravlev said.

    The MP pointed out that a law banning LGBTQ propaganda in Russia is already in force, insisting that the pictograms represent “exactly the type of propaganda” that it’s supposed to tackle.

    “Measures must be taken to remove those emojis and block their use in Russia,” he declared.

    A ban on disseminating LGBTQ material among those aged under 18 was introduced in Russia in 2013.

    In 2022, the legislation was expanded to include both minors and adults. The law on the “protection of traditional values” made it illegal to promote LGBTQ, pedophilia, and sex changes in advertising, books, movies, and media.

    In November last year, Russia’s Supreme Court outlawed the “international LGBTQ public movement,” designating it an extremist organization.
    As liberal as I am, to my core, I agree with the above. These emojis, along with so much social media, are deconstructing society as we have know it since year dot!

    Confuse the kids, tell parents they have to understand. It is MADNESS - except it is an agenda, a narrative, for more control - by design.

    The nuclear family is all but gone, the local community, at least in the west, clings on by the barest margins. In cities they don't even know their neighbours name. The key is to remove all sense of identity and replace it with whatever they decide is fashionable, control, control, control - and hope they (the sheeples) don't notice.

    It's a tricky one.

    I'm no fan of censorship. Nor am I in any way homophobic. But sadly the gay community (if there is such a thing) and the rest of the LGBTQ community have been co-opted and weaponized by the woke Marxists. And they're not playing a fair game. It's sort of like terrorists hiding amidst innocent citizens to avoid attack.

    I don't think it's necessarily an anti-gay act by the Russians. It's more like an anti-woke act. Woke Marxists always hide their quest for power behind the LGBTQ flag. Surely they're screaming homopboia and bigotry atm, but I don't think that trick works quite as well in Russia.
    ~~~

    I find it quite easy to answer in microcosm.

    If anyone proposed adding things like this to the Avalon smilie list, I'd personally categorically veto it and there'd be zero chance of me ever changing my mind.


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    Gay emojis must be banned – Russian MP
    Some of the pictograms used in smartphones promote LGBTQ values in violation of the country’s laws, Aleksey Zhuravlev has said
    https://www.rt.com/russia/591088-lgbtq-emoji-ban-duma/

    At least two dozen emojis found in smartphones promote nontraditional sexual relations and should be banned in Russia, the first deputy chairman of the parliamentary defense committee, Aleksey Zhuravlev has stated.



    Some pictograms depict “same-sex couples with children, kissing men, kissing women, a pregnant man, a male-bride with a mustache, bearded women” and others, the lawmaker told Rossiyskaya Gazeta on Friday. Zhuravlev is the leader of the Rodina (Motherland) party and a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) in the State Duma.

    Emojis are mainly employed in instant messengers and social media sites, which are the most popular platforms among users, he noted.

    “All this is seen by kids, who constantly send those emojis to each other,” Zhuravlev said.

    The MP pointed out that a law banning LGBTQ propaganda in Russia is already in force, insisting that the pictograms represent “exactly the type of propaganda” that it’s supposed to tackle.

    “Measures must be taken to remove those emojis and block their use in Russia,” he declared.

    A ban on disseminating LGBTQ material among those aged under 18 was introduced in Russia in 2013.

    In 2022, the legislation was expanded to include both minors and adults. The law on the “protection of traditional values” made it illegal to promote LGBTQ, pedophilia, and sex changes in advertising, books, movies, and media.

    In November last year, Russia’s Supreme Court outlawed the “international LGBTQ public movement,” designating it an extremist organization.
    As liberal as I am, to my core, I agree with the above. These emojis, along with so much social media, are deconstructing society as we have know it since year dot!

    Confuse the kids, tell parents they have to understand. It is MADNESS - except it is an agenda, a narrative, for more control - by design.

    The nuclear family is all but gone, the local community, at least in the west, clings on by the barest margins. In cities they don't even know their neighbours name. The key is to remove all sense of identity and replace it with whatever they decide is fashionable, control, control, control - and hope they (the sheeples) don't notice.

    It's a tricky one.

    I'm no fan of censorship. Nor am I in any way homophobic. But sadly the gay community (if there is such a thing) and the rest of the LGBTQ community have been co-opted and weaponized by the woke Marxists. And they're not playing a fair game. It's sort of like terrorists hiding amidst innocent citizens to avoid attack.

    I don't think it's necessarily an anti-gay act by the Russians. It's more like an anti-woke act. Woke Marxists always hide their quest for power behind the LGBTQ flag. Surely they're screaming homopboia and bigotry atm, but I don't think that trick works quite as well in Russia.
    ~~~

    I find it quite easy to answer in microcosm.

    If anyone proposed adding things like this to the Avalon smilie list, I'd personally categorically veto it and there'd be zero chance of me ever changing my mind.

    Fine. I guess that means I'll have to give up my quest for pronouns in our profiles

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    As always, hypocritical of Russia.
    Apparently, they care about "true family values", and on the other hand, Russia was the first country IN THE WORLD to introduce abortion in 1920 (then the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic). Now they are waging a war against everything woke just because it came from the west. To this day, abortion rates are higher in Russia than in "woke" country like Germany, Netherland or Canada.
    I don't agree with woke movement or those emojis, nor do I use them.. I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy here, because in my world they are pieces of the same puzzle.

    And I will emphasize once again that I am not convinced that Russia is better than the West in anything (I mean in terms of core values). They spin the regime's media just as well as the West.

    BTW all smileys are gender neutral here on PA, they all look the same
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    A few more details.. the coffee gave me a nice lift, so I have inspiration this morning
    I remember back in 2003 that we were all horrified watching Eurovision and the Russian candidates - the female band T.A.T.U whose main asset was that they were lesbian or bisexual, I don't remember, but that was all the people talk about. At that time, that was unimaginable even in the West .. After that, they sent the lesbian group Serebro to the Eurovision Song Contest again in 2007.. yes, I used to follow the Eurovision Song Contest.. I was young, what can I say.

    Today, Serbs constantly send woke singers to the Eurovision Song Contest, and I don't even have to mention who their prime minister is - Miss Ana Brnabić - the epitome of woke gone-wrong. (if you didn't know, Serbs have the same basic values ​​as Russians)
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ster-interview

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    BTW all smileys are gender neutral here on PA, they all look the same
    Exactly!!

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