Stratford57
Diamond Member
In his interview to Financial Times before G20 meeting Putin mentioned: There is also the so-called liberal idea, which has outlived its purpose.
So, on June 29:
Question: regarding your feelings towards liberalism. the famous singer Elton John argued with you, accusing you of hypocrisy.
Vladimir Putin: It has gotten too far, in my view, that this, liberal idea starts destroying itself. Millions of people live their own lives whereas those who promote those ideas, they seem to be living in their own paradigm.
Or, you brought up the example of Elton John. I have deep respect for him, he is a genius of a musician. In reality he comes to Russia, and we all really enjoy listening to him. I think he is mistaken. I did not give a different slant to anything here; it is true that we really have a very calm attitude towards the LGBT community. Truly, it is calm and absolutely unbiased.
We have a law that everybody has been kicking us for – a law prohibiting homosexual propaganda among minors. But listen, let a person grow up, become an adult and then to decide who he or she is. Leave children in peace. There are so many inventions nowadays: they invented five or six genders, transformers, trans…
You see, I do not even understand what it is.
This is not the problem. The problem is that this part of society is aggressively imposing their view on the majority. We have to be more loyal to each other, more open and transparent. We have to respect everyone, that is true, but we must not impose our points of view on others. Meanwhile, representatives of the so-called liberal idea are simply forcing their ideas on others. They dictate the need for the so-called sex education. Parents are against it, and they are practically imprisoned for that. This is what I was talking about.
Yes, people are fed up with that, and this may actually account for the Trump phenomenon, when he won the election, and people’s discontent underlies it in many countries of Western Europe, when they walk out into the streets.
Vladimir Putin’s news conference
The main idea: everybody should be equally respected but the minorities should NOT dictate the majority what to do. Children should be protected from gay propaganda until they grow up. Bravo, Mr. Putin! That's another reason why Deep State hates Russia/Putin so much besides the other reasons: Russia is a white country and Putin has kicked Soros' NGOs out of his country.
So, on June 29:
Question: regarding your feelings towards liberalism. the famous singer Elton John argued with you, accusing you of hypocrisy.
Vladimir Putin: It has gotten too far, in my view, that this, liberal idea starts destroying itself. Millions of people live their own lives whereas those who promote those ideas, they seem to be living in their own paradigm.
Or, you brought up the example of Elton John. I have deep respect for him, he is a genius of a musician. In reality he comes to Russia, and we all really enjoy listening to him. I think he is mistaken. I did not give a different slant to anything here; it is true that we really have a very calm attitude towards the LGBT community. Truly, it is calm and absolutely unbiased.
We have a law that everybody has been kicking us for – a law prohibiting homosexual propaganda among minors. But listen, let a person grow up, become an adult and then to decide who he or she is. Leave children in peace. There are so many inventions nowadays: they invented five or six genders, transformers, trans…
You see, I do not even understand what it is.
This is not the problem. The problem is that this part of society is aggressively imposing their view on the majority. We have to be more loyal to each other, more open and transparent. We have to respect everyone, that is true, but we must not impose our points of view on others. Meanwhile, representatives of the so-called liberal idea are simply forcing their ideas on others. They dictate the need for the so-called sex education. Parents are against it, and they are practically imprisoned for that. This is what I was talking about.
Yes, people are fed up with that, and this may actually account for the Trump phenomenon, when he won the election, and people’s discontent underlies it in many countries of Western Europe, when they walk out into the streets.
Vladimir Putin’s news conference
The main idea: everybody should be equally respected but the minorities should NOT dictate the majority what to do. Children should be protected from gay propaganda until they grow up. Bravo, Mr. Putin! That's another reason why Deep State hates Russia/Putin so much besides the other reasons: Russia is a white country and Putin has kicked Soros' NGOs out of his country.