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Aleksandr Dugin Uses Anti-Trans Language to Insult Ukrainians
Even when the trope sounds like it’s ‘just’ a ‘reasonable concern’ about ‘sports’, it ends up being about freedom everywhere.
On April 9, the far-right activist Aleksandr Dugin, writing in Russian state-run media RIA Novosti, gave an anti-Ukrainian opinion leveraging transphobic imagery. I don’t read Russian, but automatic translation (from which I quote below) helped me to read this simple, short, very terrible propaganda piece. His article has also been reported on elsewhere in English, which is how I heard about it.
Dugin begins with the nonsense claims that U.S. trans people, up until very recently, “under Obama and Biden,” received “benefits from [billionaire Jewish philanthropist George] Soros and USAID” as well as phone calls using the AI-generated voice emulation of Kamala Harris to “congratulate” us on “Pervert Day.” (News to me, hey.)
Apparently we trans people had briefly been treated as
leading social activists, pioneers and the beauty of humanity, whom everyone helped, admired and held up as an example to everyone. And now, in the blink of an eye, they have turned into pathetic freaks, miserable cripples, who are best avoided a mile away. They were fired from their…
