About homophobia

In 1915, the New Satyricon magazine was published by the feuilleton Efim Zozuli “Types of Anti -Semites” . There were anti -Semites “street” and “cabinet”, there was a “coward” suffering from a mystical fear of a Jewish conspiracy. There was a professional, there was a lover of jokes, there was a theorist who has nothing against, he has all friends and friends - Jews, but, you yourself understand, the structure of the skull ...

In today's Russia, this feuilleton could be published again, replacing the auto -corrector with only one word - “Jews” with “gays”.

Several conversations of the last time.

1. (In alarm) “Five out of ten students told me that they are gay! No, I am not against gays, I just don’t know what this will lead to in the future. This is not studied, like waging ” (lit) . An unmarried woman from Sergiev Posad, a little over thirty, works with teenagers. Realizes the complication of the world, nervous, but masks his own phobias with care of children.

2. (With a soulful, sympathetic voice) "I think this, of course, is treated." A man about forty, lives on the top floor of a skyscraper in Altufiev, a mortgage, works in Rusnano, a subscription to a “satellite and pogrom”, an autocracy in the FBK, an expensive motorcycle, and manipulations with bitcoins. I am sure that unfamiliar adults must “be treated” to comply with his ideas about the “norm”.

3. (Secular tone) "I did not watch" Carol ", is this some kind of conjuncture?" The producer on the entertainment television channel, the child is studying abroad. "For what? After all, one film on this topic has already been! " World -famous director. Both believe that one film on this topic (“Adele Life”) is quite enough.

I am not addressing people from the first two points now, although they probably need to talk to them. I do not know how to explain to a friend from Altufev that he is “to be treated” - a reasonable claim to Boovelity (as exactly according to Foucault: “The right to force to live and let it die”). And that there is some causal relationship between bitcoins from which he is going to pay a mortgage, and the works of Alan Turing, who was also once offered to “be treated”. And I don’t know how to politely explain to the familiar social activist that the sympathy and antipathy of other people's children is not her business from any side (the notorious law on the “prohibition of propaganda” seems to have led to the opposite effect: they explained to adolescents that homosexuality is only 18+, and now they are in goodwill demonstrate adulthood). I have nothing to say to those who offer gays just to live and not stick out, as if “not to lean out” helped someone in Chechnya. And it is unlikely that people who have not seen any gays, but heard on TV, how Europe dies from them, will read this text.

I want to talk with people from the third point - with those who do not consider themselves homophobes, all their friends are gays, and they themselves are citizens of the world and the first Europeans.

It is known that on the Internet (and, wider, in public space), almost any discussion inevitably moves on Hitler, after which it finally loses its meaning. My friend from Altufiev, when he dispersed, said that the aimless consumption of sperm during homosexual sexual intercourse is no different from the destruction of people in the creamy furnaces. And besides, Patriarch Kirill resorted to popular comparison, who condemned gay brothers during a speech in Bishkek: “People <...> rebelled against these laws for the same reason that they rebelled against fascist laws and against the laws of apartheid-[these] laws are spoiled with morality.”

If the "fascist" means the Nuremberg laws of 1935, in all restricting the rights of the Jews, then no one completely rebelled against them: on the contrary, they were fulfilled very obediently, if not - retino, and long before official acceptance. Sebastian Hafner in the “History of one Germans” tells how his colleagues giggled or looked at the floor when the attack aircraft threw Jewish legalists from the court building. There are thousands of such evidence. (Everyone who considers themselves Orthodox, who congratulates each other on Easter and Merry Christmas, everyone who orders a business lunch from the lean menu in the spring should now ask themselves if they agree with the statement of the Patriarch that the legally formalized single-sex partnership and the Jew cannot be a citizen of the Reich, he does not have the right to vote in political institutions, he cannot take a position in state institutions, Jewish officials will be dismissed until December 31, 1935 ” -this is the same thing.)

Georgio Agamben in the book “ Homo Sacer . What remains after Auschwitz ”, referring to Latin and Greek roots, explains in detail why the generally accepted term“ Holocaust ”is incorrect; I do not presume to reproduce his explanation, but it is now difficult for me to use the term. “Shoa” belongs to the Jews, “fascism” from repeated use does not mean anything more, so after Agamben I will say “Auschwitz”.

So, in the first post -war years they did not like to speak first of all about the survivors themselves. Firstly, they did not want to look like victims; Secondly, they knew (and Primo Levy formulated) that they survived the worst, and the best, most responsive and disinterested, all died. In 1946, 1947 and 1948, the Jewish organizations of New York consistently voted against the construction of a memorial to brothers who perished in concentration camps. The first circulation of Primo Levy "Is this a person?" - Two and a half thousand copies - was printed in 1947, did not work out to the end, and its remnants lying in a warehouse in Florence drowned during the 1966 flood. However, as the war of science and public thought “Auschwitz” - that is, the unprecedented industrial destruction of man by a person due to the indifferent innate nature, paradoxically began to grow and approach. From an event in the past, he turned into an event that is happening constantly - into a “permanent Auschwitz”, a door that can open up at any moment.

In our minds, the Auschwitz (and “fascism”) is tightly linked with nationalism, as if nationalism is a Mantoux reaction, which precisely testifying to tuberculosis, and no “Auschwitz” is impossible outside nationalism or racism. This is a dangerous simplification of propaganda, because nationalism itself is only one of the pseudonyms under which a potential “Auschwitz” can declare itself.

“Auschwitz” is much less than we would like to be tied to “izmes”. No, it is attached to our very nature and is reproduced every time when humiliating a person is humiliated.

On the road leading to gas chambers, there are a lot of fork, but it begins where a person puts in a blind area of ​​another or a group of persons on a certain basis. When they stop looking, notice when they take out the brackets of society. The proposal to “be treated” to get closer to the “norm” is an too obvious example of stigmatization. An absolutely reflex, seemingly not related to any “phobias” determination of standards on the number of films on this topic is an example of non -obvious. The correct answer: there should be exactly as many films and books on this topic as they are shot and written, as well as any other. Prejection and ghettoiding is the transfer to the blind area, the very first step.

Listen to yourself, ask yourself. Resist.

In conclusion - several headings of recent times. News, directly related to Chechnya, mayor of Svetogorsk and applications for gay parades from activist Alekseev, are well known and were not intentionally included in the selection:

“There is no homosexuality”: Sergey Gazarov spoke about the premiere of “Contemporary”, which he first brought to Yekaterinburg

Omsk social activists admitted that it was too late to fight gays in the new part of the "stranger"

Sveta scandal in Tyumen: Nagiyev and Lifanov were accused of propaganda of homosexuality

Omich killed a friend for accusation of homosexuality

Russian lawyer accused the goat of Timur and Tiger Amur of propaganda of homosexuality

Former Bryansk deputy Kolomeytsev accused judges of homosexuality

The Communist requires prohibiting the children's books of Ulitskaya about homosexuality

Hypnosis and baroque. How in Russia they treat homosexuality

Boxer Dmitry Chudinov: "... How can a child grow, looking at the same -sex marriages?"

Library books of Chelyabinsk are suspected of promoting same -sex marriages

The prosecutor's office of Bryansk defeated in court a mouthpiece of homosexuality

Residents of Ingushetia tore off the Bad Boys Blue poster due to suspicions of homosexuality

Islamic scholars: gays and Wahhabis in Chechnya-Gemini Gewnings

In the occupied territories of Donbass, they brutally deal with gays

"The Nazis were homosexuals from the very beginning"

“Exceptions become rules”: will there be repressions against gays in the Russian Federation

Dagestan announced a hunt for gays kissing in a local bar

Milonov wants to re-check the "beauty and the monster" on the LGBT propaganda

Non -childish and dangerous. How the West imposes its tolerance in games

The League of Patient Defenders prepared a letter addressed to the president on the recognition of homosexuality with a disease

Baba Valya from Irkutsk made a video message about homosexuality in Russia