☝️“The struggle for equality and against discrimination is turning into an aggressive dogmatism that borders on the absurd. Great authors of the past, like Shakespeare, are no longer taught in schools and universities; they are declared backward for failing to foreground issues of gender or race. Hollywood now produces guidelines—memos on how a movie should be made, what it should be about, and how many characters of which color or gender it must include. This is even more restrictive than the work of the Soviet Union's Central Committee Agitation and Propaganda Department.
Opposing racism is a necessary and noble endeavor. However, within the new "culture of cancellation," it often transforms into reverse discrimination. This obsessive emphasis on race divides people even further. The dream of true civil rights activists was precisely to erase such divisions and to stop judging people by their skin color. I am reminded of Martin Luther King's words: "I dream the day will come when my four little children will one day live in a country where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." That is the true value.
By the way, in Russia, the vast majority of people do not care about a person's skin color or gender; what matters is that each of us is human. That is the main thing.
Those who dare to state that the terms "man" and "woman" exist as biological facts are subjected to near-total ostracism. We see "Parent number one," "Parent number two," "birth parent" instead of "mother," and the phrase "breast milk" being replaced with "human milk" to avoid upsetting those unsure of their gender.
I am not even speaking of the absolutely monstrous practice of indoctrinating children from a young age—telling them that a boy can easily become a girl and vice versa. This imposes a so-called "choice" on them, often excluding parents and pushing children to make life-altering decisions. Is anyone asking whether a child at that age is even capable of such choices? To call things by their proper names, this is a crime against humanity, and it is all done under the banner of progress.” - President Putin