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Looking at the archive, I'm surprised you made it this far. A cursory search reveals many "political" doodles. http://www.google.com/doodles/50th-anniversary-of-jfks-inaug... http://www.google.com/doodles/50th-anniversary-of-the-i-have... http://www.google.com/doodles/south-african-freedom-day-2013 http://www.google.com/doodles/election-day-us http://www.google.com/doodles/international-womens-day-2005 http://www.goo…
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It is unfortunate that you are so willing to consume as 'politics' whatever topic political strategists have decided to include in their party's talking points. It is fortunate that said political strategists chose LGBT rights and not, say, the legality of JavaScript. Because then your Google search would have been a moot point entirely, JS having been made "political".
The LGBT Russia thing is totally blown out of proportion. http://www.scribd.com/doc/203382931/Russian-Lgbt-Law-White-P... Before you decide to down-vote me into oblivion and accuse me of hating minority groups please read the white paper linked above. Note I am not affiliated with the person who wrote it or scribd. I just want people to see both sides of the argument. EDIT - And what a surprise down-voted. Seriously…
Yes, for every single argument there are two equally valid sides. Right. Give me a goddamned break.
Right.
Give me a break.
Seriously, without getting snarky, how about you actually read the whitepaper. The person who wrote it is a lawyer and member of the LGBT community.
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What difference does it make? They're not changing your search results due to their stance.
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I find it also horrific that you make a false parallel to text editors which also have demonstrable 'political' (as you've employed the term) positions.
The LGBT Russia thing is totally blown out of proportion. http://www.scribd.com/doc/203382931/Russian-Lgbt-Law-White-P... Before you decide to down-vote me into oblivion and accuse me of hating minority groups please read the white paper linked above. Note I am not affiliated with the person who wrote it or scribd. I just want people to see both sides of the argument. EDIT - And what a surprise down-voted. Seriously…
It's very obviously written for the purposes of advocacy, despite protestations that it's not. The defense of this law seems to be:
1) It's not that bad. It doesn't target the LGBT community, it just bans any sort of public acknowledgement of a class of people that just happens to include LGBT folks.
2) The media has blown this way out of proportion by saying what the law only implies. Also by not mentioning that the law was enacted to protect the children. Why don't they mention the children?
3) Even if the law is that bad, it hasn't been enforced much yet.
4) Even if the law is bad, those guys over there are just as bed.
Oh yeah, definitely want to consider both sides of this argument.
Just out of curiosity, boyter. When you refer to "both sides", how would you sum up the other side in one sentence? "It's not that bad" is not, in fact, a defense of anything.
The LGBT Russia thing is totally blown out of proportion. http://www.scribd.com/doc/203382931/Russian-Lgbt-Law-White-P... Before you decide to down-vote me into oblivion and accuse me of hating minority groups please read the white paper linked above. Note I am not affiliated with the person who wrote it or scribd. I just want people to see both sides of the argument. EDIT - And what a surprise down-voted. Seriously…
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Did you really not expected to get down voted for being completely ignorant about the problems there? You might want to do some reading up - starting with this 5 series VICE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ_aSl3ktjg
I expected to get voted down. Not because what I posted didn't add value, but because this is the sort of topic I avoid in day to day conversation because it causes fights. There is too much emotion involved. I am not saying there are not problems. I am saying that the media coverage of it is overblown, and because of that any rational thought or discussion about it is impossible. I provided a link to a document whic…
Read up http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201402/being-gay-...
I'm proud the tech community is so solidly behind LGBT issues.
