The Russian Tea Party

Not to gloss over the titled intent of the article Understanding Russia’s homophobia, the most interesting part for me was the history lesson on Russian culture and how similar it is to the U.S.  You could have changed countries and names and easily been reading about our version of ultra-nationalists, including American exceptionalism, ruling oligarchs and corporatists, conservatives, Tea Party, fundamental Christians, NeoNazis, and old white men (and some women) still pining for the fantasy of the “Good Old Days”.  It was only two years ago that our own national homophobia was still institutionalized.   Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.   Case in point, as documented in the piece – fancypants liberals from Russia – or the US – spouting French.

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