Several dozen masked individuals attacked the first sanctioned gay demonstration in St. Petersburg and vented their anger on migrant workers after police drove the gays from the scene.
Attack on Gays in St. Petersburg Spreads to Migrant Workers | Society | RIA Novosti
From the article:
Police moved quickly and placed all the gays on a bus, which then drove off.
The frustrated homophobes attacked another bus stopped at a traffic light that they mistook for the departed vehicle. But the bus was carrying migrant workers from Central Asia. The attackers hurled stones at the bus and somebody tossed smoke bombs on the road in front of it. They also broke windows and started beating the passengers.
There were no police in the area during the bus attack. Police said later they were accompanying the bus with the gay activists.
The police wouldn’t actually think to appease the homophobes by letting them take their rage on the “less valuable” brown bodies employed for manual labor, would they? Also, I love the lack of commentary on the chance that in that bus full of Asian migrants, there might as well be queer folks.
And then, right below the story, there is this comment:
LGBT people cannot destroy Russia. That is such sillyness [SIC]. If you want more babies pay Ethiopians to have your babies through IVF.
I just can’t.
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