Russian journal banned from writing on same-sex animal behavior without expressing disgust for it

Because tolerance requires open mindedness and critical thinking. Two things that undermine a fascists regime when the entire population does that. By banning homosexuality the regime basically tells the people that they shouldn’t think beyond their first gut reaction. It’s okay to hate, it’s okay that the police beats up your gay neighbor, it’s okay to not think about it, it’s okay to not think at all.

I feel like a lot of fascists try to bake in a lot of hierarchy as the natural order, that this is what nature intended.

Queer people end up being an example that the way nature is isn't as clearly defined as the fascists say it should be

It might be like with witches back in the day. If everybody hates witches, you can call any inconvenient person a witch and dispose them. The other thing is that it alignes with general backwards mentality.

Seems this is #12 in Umberto Eco's description of fascism and its hatred towards liberal progressivism:

Since both permanent war and heroism are difficult games to play, the Ur-Fascist transfers his will to power to sexual matters. This is the origin of machismo (which implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality). Since even sex is a difficult game to play, the Ur-Fascist hero tends to play with weapons — doing so becomes an ersatz phallic exercise.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism

Fascism is a radically conservative ideology obsessed with promotion of (what the fascist sees as) traditional values and behaviours. That includes cisheteronormativity, as queerness isn't traditional anywhere.

I'd say that the idolisation of a fictional, ideal which society should strive towards but never achieve, allows focusing of opposition. If it weren't for the gays/trans/gypsies/Muslims/immigrants/unemployed/trade unionists (delete as applicable) then society would be as it was used to be, which is always perfect and better than it is now. Of course as society will never be perfect, there must alway be a new group to blame for failure to meet the necessary ideal.

It's only my theory however; it's comes down to babys and education, if your population is making babys and lots of them at a young age, things like education and quality of life can suffer dues to having to support kids. Lack of education leads you to belie ving in propaganda more easily. Also lack of education makes you more likely to have kids younger and in less than ideal financial situation. More kids with less education, means it's easier to populate a military. Hopefully you get the idea and sweeping generalisations I've made. Now homosexuals and by proxy transgender don't produce children (ignoring adoption etc etc) so they aren't what the dictators want and they also might give the heterosexuals ideas about not have kids, or at least delaying it, getting and education etc etc. then add in a sprinkling of religion, also good to control uneducated masses, and you have the perfect population for dictator/fascist control

Tldr: they want an uneducated baby producing population

OG fascism aimed that everyone participate in building the Nation. Women's role is supposed to be producing children, i.e., future soldiers and workers.

That's the same idea than Christianity. Homosexuality and contraception do not lead to babies, so they are vilified.

My guess is that if you reproduce you're more easily manipulated because of the need to provide for and protect your child.

Bonus points for also introducing a fresh mind ripe for absorbing fascist indoctrination.

it's an avenue for epstein style kompromat

Given how western fascists (in some parts anyway) have mostly grown out of their obsession/hatred with homosexuality, it's probably entirely a cultural or a cynical populist thing. They say what they know people will like to hear, and also what they know other people will hate to hear. Anything to keep them in everyone's minds.

It is called the russian uncertainty principle. You can either observe the sexual behaviour of animals precisely or have precisely defined ideals but not both at the same time.

wanna bet a bunch of other countries are working on the same kind of "law"?

The author clarified in an update that this was a sort of a joke from him. The publisher used an AI for legal analysis of the translated book, and AI recommended censoring it, but the publisher didn't require any edits in this regard.

I'm also not sure how much of a ‘scientific magazine’ it is, because ‘Batrachospermum’ is a majorly shitposty name, but fitting for a Telegram channel, from where this info is sourced. They also have a site apparently.

"Penguins are part of a interspecies conspiracy to undermine traditional family values(tm), if you see a penguin, arrest it."

No homo 🤠

They are icky [1].

References

[1] That LGBT propaganda law

Yeah those are some dirty penguins!

I mean, a gay parade would be nice anyway, regardless.

Hey, another Russian immigrant in Canada! I feel embarrassed as well. The West didn't turn me Bi, cute goth girls did. Although you can blame Xena a little bit.

I moved to the US from China when I was around 8, my family is so fucking backwards and ableist but luckily I didn't get born into the millions of other families that got stuck in China and their shitty abelism that discriminates against... check notes depression... like jesus christ.

If I were to dress up as a girl, I'm pretty sure my mom would disown me for being "mentally ill"

I know the US Government doesn't exactly have a great reputation, but the people are very progressive and more accepting of LgBT and more mental health aware than China is... in China they literally kicked out an accepted University student because they later discovered his autism diagnosis... jesus christ.

they are not catholic.

Neither are the Russians. They're Eastern Orthodox.