A Russian magazine editor claims his publisher demanded he censor a book that mentions homosexuality in animals because it violates the country’s “LGBT propaganda” law.
Viktor Kovylin, editor of the scientific journal Batrachospermum, wrote on Telegram that his publisher told him the descriptions of same-sex behavior in a book on animal sexual behavior were against the law because they did not express “disgust or criticism” for the acts.
“Apparently, neutral scientific descriptions of homosexual behavior, without disgust or criticism, now fall under the category of propaganda for non-traditional relationships!” Kovylin wrote on Telegram, according to a translation.
Because tolerance requires open mindedness and critical thinking. Two things that undermine a fascists regime when the entire population does that. By banning homosexuality the regime basically tells the people that they shouldn’t think beyond their first gut reaction. It’s okay to hate, it’s okay that the police beats up your gay neighbor, it’s okay to not think about it, it’s okay to not think at all.
Hm, I’m not sure. Fascists also sometimes also like their audience to “think differently”, e.g. disregard science, “wake up” and see the truth and or connect themselves with veganism and nature.
Fascism is syncretic hate. Both things can be and are true. To the hippies they sell the idea of returning to the land and living in harmony with nature (by opposing modern life and the tolerance it encourages), while to the social conservative it proposes either an idealized past or future before or after modern “degeneracy”.
It’s just a bunch of appeals to emotions where people are trained to ignore most of what is said and only listen to what resonates with them. Eventually they must act, but even that isn’t a clean organized thing, it’s leadership doing what resonated with them.
Yeah but they still need to forgo critical thinking. They should only think what Big Brother wants them to think, since publicly criticizing that neo paganism ideology would mean you get a visit from the secret police.