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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Thanks, it just seems that much of world opinion shifted when this law came in. I don't follow the news too closely, but I can't recall all this popular mov't against Russia's games.
I must have missed the other thread you started about boycotting the games  |
Ha, well I'm not sure if I voiced it here but I was very against the awarding of these games, and the World Cup, to Russia.
I think the popular movement stems from a few things. One, information spreads so easily now that the abuses in Russia are much more evident to people around the world than they were even a few years ago. I also think that LGBT rights have become a pretty major social cause over the last few years, in many ways our generations equivalent to the fight for racial equality. The other aspect of this is that this is an institutionally supported denial of human rights, not just a antiquated culture, which elevates it to another level.