John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
“Russian president Vladimir Putin doubled down on his attack on western liberalism on Saturday, using a post-G20 press conference to rant against musician and activist Elton John’s criticism of his record on LGBT+ rights”
This is a slanted, unfair piece of reporting.
Just calling Putin’s words "a rant" is highly deceptive.
I’ve read his comments, elsewhere.
They were calm and reasonable.
He basically said Russians have their own calm attitude in these matters.
Let parents raise their children in the way they see as appropriate, and when the children are grown, they can choose whatever way they see fit.
It’s a thoroughly healthy-minded and practical point of view.
No prejudice. No rant.
Indeed, it is, in fact, Elton John who could be more fairly charged with those.
Elton John, in a fashion so typical today in the West, is accusing Russia of matters in which it has no guilt and around which he, John, has no knowledge, or very little.
Trying to tell others his values are best.
And the way in which he does that, to my mind, resembles so many of the highly charged attitudes we see today, as, for example, telling women they can’t wear the hijab if they so choose because it is anti-feminist and imposed by men.
Ridiculous, if you know anything about the strong women in many parts of the Muslim world.
