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Originally Posted by 19Yzerman19
No. Screw this. There is no room for tolerance and understanding and bringing people along slowly to say "see, you don't need to fear and hate and marginalize everyone who's different from you, we can all live side by side with our differences". People are being tortured and killed and this is supposedly a developed nation. The Russian people are responsible, each individually, for his or her own perspective, values and morality. If they have come to the conclusion that homosexuality is aberrant, wrong, less than, or anything similar, I have no patience for that and there is no justification.
I'll draw the analogy again: regardless of whether you were raised in South Africa under Apartheid, if you were a supporter of Apartheid, you were a racist, and by the way, f*** you. The same goes here.
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See, it is this jihadist, militant form of delivering your message (and valo's 'prejudiced statement' - yes I understand valo's context,now) that will cost you momentum in this discussion. It doesn't matter how morally correct your position is, if you deliver like an a$$hole, the response will be in kind. Whether you like it or not, this message, in IMO does have to be delivered with a softer touch. Otherwise, you will get responses like Pointman's. At this point he isn't even really listening anymore.
For the record, I would have no problem with the patches, but if this is as important as you convey, a boycott is the more appropriate response.
Carry on...
