Clare Balding a 'sell out' says LGBT community

[metalangel]

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Some members of the LGBT community are hating on Clare Balding for being a 'sell out' by going to Sochi.

This being the internet, the winner is this comment:
"Gays are fucking assholes"

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/02/08/clare-balding-sochi-olympics-gay-sell-out-twitter-trolls_n_4750034.html

https://metro.co.uk/2014/02/08/sochi-2014-winter-olympics-bbc-star-clare-balding-defends-herself-from-twitter-trolls-over-decision-to-go-to-russia-4295694/
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If we boycotted everything which seems to offend this lot, we'd live in a very dull place where civilization failed due to lack of reproduction.

Clare Balding can swivel, but people will still want to watch the Winter Olympics even if it offends the pink brigade.

[Lord Percy]

If I were a famous gay and had the power of the BBC to give me general physical (and political?) safety, I would be right over there as a representative for the fight against the moron homophobe herd.

In this instance, I don't think boycotting would really work. That would just be a win for them. What they need really is a full invasion of unattackable homos, such as this woman .

[Ribenapigeon]

The winter olympics have nothing to do with the whole issue of homophobia in Russia so why should Clare Balding not go there? There are plenty of countries which are deeply homophobic, are gay celebrities meant to boycot all of them. The next football world cup being a case in point.

[Im-a-Ridah]

[Ribenapigeon]

[-Matt-]

I think its fairly pointless to blame and scapegoat select individuals following their career for attending. They should be asking the people that awarded the olympics to them why they got it - but then after the likes of China having it I doubt they care, so long as their pockets are being filled generously

On the topic of the severity of homophobia in Russia though, worth a watch. https://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/4od.

Its obiviously focused on the worse cases, but does highlight the widespread lack of care from the police and other authorities about the issue.

[Ribenapigeon]

I agree that the olympics do seem to be just a big excercise in money making all for a few days of television. I think the Chinese Olympics were pretty disgusting in the way chinese people were treated. Certainly if I was an athlete I wouldent have felt comfortable competing there.

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Yeah, I must admit if I was one of them i'd probably still attend though, admittedly with a bad after taste, as i'm sure many experience. Its unfortunate the olympics is as big and dominating as it is really. The days of it being a 'great sporting get together' are long gone in my opinion - its just a huge commercial product now.

The majority of these athletes work day in day out to train at their sport in the hopes of reaching the top which for them is the olympics - boycotting it is like a formula 1 driver just not turning up for a race. Career opportunties and future sponsorship in them will likely go down the drain.

Its easy for everyone on the outside to say 'oh but think of the morals!'. I expect they'd all still goto their day job in a similar situation though

Looks like they've kept the protesters fairly battered into submission calm so far. Not sure the 2018 world cup will go so smoothly though, considering the amount of football hooliganism in Russia

[Ribenapigeon]

i've known two proper sports people in my life and met a few others and they were all competative to the point of psycopathy. I suspect that for a lot of sports people the only thing that ever counts is being first and that mentality is probably encouraged throughout their careers. For most events that's ok it just the way it is, F1 or the footie world cup for instence but the Olympics are different. Its promoted as having this Olympian ethos that's about soething more than just competition. Clearly a load of shite.

[Flatbadger]

Send the woman to Reading Nick, and tell all the LGBT twats that it was because she didn't conform to the ideas of society at large.

I'm sure the irony would be completely lost on them.
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[angryjonny]

I don't get it. Surely her going to Russia as the BBC's lead correspondant despite their anti-gay stance is a far bigger "fuck you" than her just rolling over and staying home.

[Benno]

[In my vocabulary, faggot =/= homosexual person. It means an annoying person of any background, or an excessively flamboyant, feminine, irritating, personality-and-ideology-based-on-my-sexuality homosexual person, usually male]

The media incitement against Russia is fucking pathetic.

When have we ever had this much hype over the Winter Olympics? Never as far as I can remember. Just this time, "the gays/trannies" decided to kick up a fuss. The reality, I imagine, is that a few militant faggots and trannies were upset and started "waging war" on twitter, and then hordes of progressive "allies" decided to take up their cause on their behalf, and the media - being braindead progressive parrots that are of the belief that anything that goes against their cultural ideals is objectively wrong and they haven't simply misinterpreted the situation or just misunderstood it - whips itself and "the public" into a fury over the "injustice".

The reality is that most of the public don't care - the media just tell them that they do - and it's pretty much a manufactured ire against Russia's "anti gay" laws. The only people genuinely annoyed are the few militant fags/trannies, and the "allies" (ironically the larger group of the two).

Put it into context. Many countries have anti gay laws in the world - shock horror! The UK itself had anti-gay laws until fairly recently.
Furthermore, Russian law and society doesn't actually penalise people for being gay. They just don't want them waving their dicks around in massive public parades.

And as for the apparent "irony" of all the "homoerotic" aspects of Russian culture/the Sochi Olympics (such as two toilets in one room) - come on now political left, aren't you supposed to be the ones that are understanding of other cultures? Something we are dumb enough to consider homoerotic doesn't mean it's homoerotic to other cultures. On top of that, not everybody who disagrees with you is a "closet homosexual", that's just a buzzword you like to use when you are losing an argument.



https://www.scribd.com/doc/203382931/Russian-Lgbt-Law-White-Paper
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[-Matt-]

I think the fuss is justified, albeit pointless - over the winter olympics you're probably right about it not having happened before, but previous olympics have had equal fuss kicked up over them, and equally little happened because of it as I expect will be the case with Russia now, they couldn't give two

China had the same protests and calls for boycotting over human rights and tibet etc when it hosted the main olympics a few years back. I think the 'shock' factor comes from the fact a lot of the general public people see Russia as a big developed country sometimes, almost part of Europe, so to have laws that would probably not get passed in the EU so close to it makes them get hot and bothered.

I would disagree about the penalisation of LGBT communities by Russian society though - although the law might not penalise them directly it does little to stop the common abuse and ill treatment of those communties which happens on a regular basis and is tollerated by a large amount of people as the norm. To be honest though, its not much better in lot of eastern europe. Poland and its eastern neighbours aren't exactly welcoming to gays generally either, just a culture divide really

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