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Originally Posted by valo403
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.
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We are on the sameside of the argument, but I will say, that people are more interested in issues that they can see at home. IE: LGBT rights. People has trouble identifying with abuses in places far away. Remember the last Chechen War (both sides are a bunch of #######s) only ended in 2009. I think Russia had been awarded the games by in 2007? (guess on my part).
People had every oppurtinity to know what was going on in Russia and in Russian sphere of influence.