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Milo Yiannopoulos brings us this disturbing tidbit:
A gay man from Chechnya, Russia has spoken out, providing some troubling details related to the the majority-Muslim province's effort to eliminate the LGBTQ community entirely.
According to Metro.co.uk's Charles White, many gay men living in Chechnya fear the government will "eliminate" them by the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The government is reportedly hoarding[sic] the gay men into "concentration camps" where some may have been killed.
According to Breitbart, the Agence France-Presse (AFP) spoke with several gay victims of oppression who have managed to escape Chechnya. What they've revealed is that not only are gay men in the region afraid of persecution from authority.
They're also scared of "honor killings" by family members looking to punish them for shaming their family name. This fear follows the individuals even after they've left Chechnya, where the bulk of the atrocities appears to be occurring.
"If any of my relatives realize I'm gay, they won't hesitate a minute before killing me," said one 28-year-old victim according to the outlet. "And if they don't do it, they will get killed themselves for failing to uphold the family honor."
[Ed. note: See also this fascinating background article on the apparent cause of this recent pogrom in Chechnya. Hat tip to n1 for providing this link.]
I know it's not our usual fare but some things just need brought out in the open; see what Iran is up to.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @03:24PM (1 child)
I don't think they realize or care that their crappy trolling is ruining the site,
I think that's their goal.
They aren't able to build anything, only tear things down.
So they gleeful encourage as much noise as they can to drown out the signal. They prefer to keep people arguing about the same old shit over and over again because that prevents the discussion from making any progress. They pretend to be for freedom of speech, but only so much as its enables a sort of heckler's veto of crap-posting. All ideas are of equal merit because there is no truth, only narratives.
Tmb's attack on the original moderation system under the guise of "preventing unfair downmods" was part of that. Since then moderation has become mostly ineffective. Pithy but ultimately vapid, or even outright delusional, zingers get modded up way more frequently than thoughtful analysis. People with long histories of threadcrapping like ethanal-fueld never take a karmic hit and lose that +1 bonus, despite the FAQ saying otherwise. And meta-moderation is never going to get implemented because if shitty moderators were to be held responsible for their choices that would reduce the noise.
The site is exactly how those dullards want it, and we are just snowflakes for expecting any sort of baseline community values.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 26 2017, @06:22PM
That's fine, this blade gets dull if it isn't regularly used. I'll always be around to kick him and his fellow travelers up and down the aisle, and now that it seems to have hit critical mass and the rest of the site is knocking him too, things may actually improve a bit :)
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