DISINFO: Liberal West exaggerates gender politics to attack Russia
SUMMARY
Gender politics and hyper-individualism are among the most destructive aspects of globalism. The liberal West deliberately exaggerates and amplifies its gender politics and hyper-individualism to increasingly attack Russia. This amounts to an ideological war. In the case of Russia, this is the struggle of liberalism against “non-liberalism”.
RESPONSE
Recurrent pro-Kremlin narrative claiming that gender issues, feminism and individual rights issues are used by Western governments and “globalist élites” to attack and destabilise other societies and their governments.
The article’s message also contains the recurrent pro-Kremlin narrative claiming that the West pursues a belligerent and hostile agenda against Russia.
There is no evidence to support the article’s claim that the West deliberately uses gender politics and “hyper-individualism” to attack and wage an “ideological war” against Russia.
Pro-Kremlin disinformation often claims that traditional Russian values, which are portrayed as superior to those of the West, are threatened by decadent Western culture. According to researchers, pro-Kremlin narratives about the threat of Western decadence, feminism and LGBT culture are part of a political strategy to strengthen the stability of Russia’s authoritarian regime.
Western gender politics, individual rights issues and LGBT rights are part of the dynamics of an open and pluralistic society and are not a tool to attack Russia nor to wage an “ideological war”.
Liberal societies are based on pluralism, a political philosophy which recognises and affirms diversity within a political body, and which permits the peaceful coexistence of different lifestyles, worldviews, interests, and convictions.
Western criticism of human and civil rights violations in Russia - including the violation of the rights of LGBT minorities - are not an “attack” nor an ideological war against Russia. LGBT people in Russia are subject to considerable discrimination, which has worsened since a 2013 federal law banning LGBTQ propaganda.
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