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Russian government propaganda stokes anti-West sentimentBy Susan Ormiston, CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russian-government-propaganda-stokes-anti-west-sentiment-1.2944274
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One prominent television news program recently suggested that America was pushing its children into homosexuality. As an example, it showed a U.S. television ad for giant "Monster Truck" decals to decorate childrens bedrooms. In the ad, a boy opens his bedroom door on his birthday to find a wall-sized decal of a monster truck. He shrieks with delight, covering his eyes.
The version shown on the Russian program is doctored the boy opens his door to find images of naked men covering his bedroom wall. The cutaway shows the same shrieking and covering of eyes, as the announcer asks: "Is this what a childs playroom should look like?" (See the Russian video here, at 43 minutes and 55 seconds into the show, and the original commercial here, or watch them back to back.)
The American company behind the commercial, Fat Head, is considering a lawsuit.
"There is quite a lot of talk about morality," says Irina Prokhorova, "but I think this is the most immoral of all - trying to seduce people into becoming part of this repressive campaign."
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freshwest
(53,661 posts)applegrove
(118,683 posts)replaced the truck with on the wall of the boy's room and it was disgusting to think of that in a kids room. Equating gay rights as child abuse deep in the guts of russians. Really scary.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)You KNOW they'll come after the Jews next.
MattSh
(3,714 posts)Any proof of that? I didn't think so.
No proof is needed about anything Russia these days. It's just one continual parade of stupid made up bullshit, each one trying to outdo the earlier one, everybody from the President to Congress to the media to the average Joe on the street. Nauseating.
Seems you're fixated on propaganda.
uhnope
(6,419 posts)Or maybe they are just that homophobic, since this really plays more into the Russian government's anti-gay campaign.
enough
(13,259 posts)applegrove
(118,683 posts)Their is actually bad **** going on there.
Behind the Aegis
(53,959 posts)What is even more disgusting is watching so-called progressives deflect, or worse, defend this crap by hook or crook. I love how the idea of gay equality and human rights are consider "Western sentiment."
pampango
(24,692 posts)says more about the propagandist than it does about the target.