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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

Except that independent researchers concluded that while Putin's approval numbers are inflated, it's not by much, meaning his popularity is genuinely high across the country

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...lar-in-russia/

That’s fair enough, although I’m pretty skeptical about their “conclusion”. In any event I still don’t believe their approval of Putin earns them all the labeling of homophobic. That isn’t to say there aren’t any, or that even a majority of them aren’t. It’s just a very slippery slope when people start labelling people in such a manner as you did.

When you make a statement that “the vast majority of Russia’s population are against equal rights for LGTB” it leaves very little room for error. You are either right and the vast majority of them are what you say, or it is not factually accurate and at that point you are both wrong and complicit in actions that are as equally prejudice to the ones you accuse them of. Just try to consider that before you make those kinds of comments.