Don't feed Mizulina

Why victims of homophobic repression behave incorrectly when trying to come to an agreement with the aggressor

Hauptsturmführer of the so-called “Safe Internet League” Ekaterina Mizulina organized another persecution of another objectionable blogger. This time the victim was the character Hilmi, who exploited trans themes.

“I received more than 3.5 thousand requests from outraged citizens regarding the transgender Hilmi. Most are concerned that he actively promotes LGBT people and distributes pornography, and his main audience is children. In addition, he actively pesters schoolchildren on the streets and in institutions, which raises many questions. Today we turned to the Prosecutor General of Russia and the Minister of Internal Affairs with a request to conduct an investigation and bring the transgender person to administrative responsibility for petty hooliganism, LGBT propaganda and dissemination of other illegal information among children, as well as criminal liability for illegal trafficking in pornography ,” Mizulina wrote.

As proof, the star of new Russian under-fascism gave several examples of content, screenshots of alleged appeals from young readers, as well as copies of her statements. There is no doubt about the authenticity of the first and third, but the petitions of the “victim children” easily reveal that they are fully grown people on a salary, imitating the “school” style with deliberate typos and missing spaces.

Shifted Focus

In a word, both the work is clumsy and the case is ordinary in modern times. The question is not that Mizulina is lying about two and a half regiments of offended schoolchildren. And today’s hell with the persecution of Zhenya Berkovich and other talented people for the fact of artistic expression is a much more important and tragic event than the ongoing persecution of trash bloggers. There, by the way, there were enough denunciations from crazy NOD members, written 2 years ago.

The Mizulina-Hilmi case is interesting only because of Hilmi’s answer. This desperate attempt to justify himself, a plea to lag behind and paradoxical:

“My blog has never talked about any non-traditional relationships or connections.”

It is clear that Hilmi is unlikely to perceive the word “trends” outside the narrow understanding of his field of activity and certainly does not understand the intricacies of discourse. But this act should be perceived only from the position of an anti-example. There is no way to do this, but many people do just that. They try to justify themselves, deny the obvious, and sometimes even pretend to be repentant and ready to improve. This is not just a losing strategy, but generally the worst possible option.

Is it possible to pacify a dragon?

Attempts to find compromises with the current regime in the Russian Federation are obviously failures on both sides. Firstly, they come from a misunderstanding of who our enemy is. Or rather, there is insufficient understanding that this is the enemy. Not good people who made a little mistake, but are able to correct themselves, but infernal evil that emerged from the collective subconscious of a degrading nation and embodied in the Putin regime.

Their goal is not to correct us, but to destroy us. First cut out of social existence, and then, probably, simply cut out. The problem here is not in the person of Mizulina Jr., who is not any outstanding personality, but in the system that she represents and embodies. The collective gopnik, who has triumphed in the Russian Federation, does not want to re-educate all those who are undesirable into his own image. His ultimate goal is slightly different: to remake the entire world to suit his own perception. Trample all the lawns, torture all the cats and beat all the wise guys to death. Even if individual parts of this collective gopnik themselves wear glasses, speak smart words and are engaged in landscaping, these are only local details that do not negate its overall goal.

In this regard, the examples of Anton Krasovsky in the Russian Federation and Roman Protasevich in Belarus are typical. Despite the difference in their biographies, both were talented people and fiery fighters, both were broken and subjugated by the regime. He spat them both out. You will never become theirs, no matter how hard you try. They instinctively feel our foreignness, and this gut feeling has always been and will be their main motivator.

What will be left of us?

The second reason is even more important than the first. What remains of Krasovsky and Protasevich, of thousands of journalists who became propagandists, of once liberal politicians who were reborn as cannibals? Look at Mizulina Sr., Medvedev, Solovyov and Kiselyov, Ella Pamfilova and other degenerates. They scream louder than others, have lost their human appearance and are trying their best to show themselves as the first students. They are despised both by those who remember them as humans and by those whom they try so desperately to please.

The experience of finding a compromise with strong evil is always the experience of one’s own dehumanization. On this path you can go very far, or you can take only a couple of steps, but it is always the road to hell. Both from a moral and from the most cynical-rational point of view, this is a deliberately losing strategy.

We don't know whether Russian political prisoners will be released from prison before they are tortured to death. But, having preserved themselves and their principles, they left at least a chance for this. But those who caved in have no chance. If the reigning dragon retains his power for a long time, he will devour them at the first opportunity. Nobody likes traitors, especially if a person has betrayed himself. But if ( when ) this regime falls, then many of the gray functionaries and even the original cannibals will be able to avoid retribution. But those who believed and repented will receive the full measure of the consequences, even if they try very hard to repent back. This stuffing is definitely impossible to turn back.

What should we do?

Of course, this text is not about Hilmi, but about you and me. We are basically not bloggers or stars. We quietly live our little invisible lives and are freaked out by what is happening. But each of us finds ourselves in a similar situation. At home, at work, in a random online argument, in a careless conversation in a group. None of us are immune from denunciation or from falling into the millstones of the repressive machine simply because the gentlemen of the guardsmen need to knock down statistics. Any sense of security in Russia is obviously false.

Whatever the situation we find ourselves in, the main thing is to understand that we are not all heroes, but we must preserve ourselves at all costs. Oneself is not only the integrity and functionality of a mortal carcass. But also principles, a picture of the world, if possible, a way of life, close people. Your identity in all its truly important aspects.

To do this, it is not at all necessary to run with an open visor into an attack on a obviously stronger enemy. Many people are better off leaving. For many, lay low in one form or another. To build underground a shadow of your former life, but to preserve its essence. But what you definitely cannot do is become a servant to your enemy. He still won’t appreciate it, and you’ll lose yourself. Forever.

Text: Antony Spyros.