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Originally Posted by opendoor
While I can't speak for everyone, I imagine it's because most people who didn't know better are surprised to find out just how backwards and ****ed up Russia still is on issues like this. I think most find the idea of an industrialized nation passing a draconian law like this exceptionally odd and that's why you're seeing such a reaction. In fact, it's not that people are biased against Russia, but rather the opposite. I think most people in the West held the Russian people in a reasonably high regard and laws like this are fairly shocking and demonstrate that they probably gave Russian society too much credit.
The fact that you think that average peoples' outrage is rooted in corporations not wanting to lose the Russian gay market illustrates that you are simply on another planet from the rest of the industrialized world on this issue and are grasping at straws to explain your anomalous views on LGBT rights within that context.
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That's it for me, and it appears lots of others. Now we know that Russia is a sh**ty, backwards thinking country, and it appears as though a lot of it's citizens are on board, a product of their environment, if you will.
It makes me even happier to live in our great country, and not in that craphole, with it's antiquated, bigoted views on equality.
I too thought Russia was lot more advanced than it now appears. So in that way, it's almost good that they got the Olympics, as it's opening the worlds eyes to how brutal that country is.