The documentary reveals the way lgbt people are treated in Russia. There are several gangs that are hunting down gay people for fun. The documentary introduces a red-haired chick who's formed a group called 'Occupy Pedophilia'. (Apparently, most of the gangs go under the name of Occupy Pedophilia.) The group consists of her and a herd of sociopathic boys.
The strangest thing is that what the group does has absolutely nothing to do with pedophiles. The groups deliberately refuse to see the very obvious difference between active homosexuals and active pedophiles, so that they can harass homosexuals and pretend that they're teaching pedophiles a lesson.
This is how 'Occupy Pedophilia' operates: they lure lonely gay boys into fake meetings. Then they humiliate and assault them, sometimes even murder them. They force the boys to rape themselves with bottles. They 'interview' them and force them to give out all their personal information. They film everything and put the videos on the internet in order to destroy the boys' lives.
They refer to these operations as 'safaris'.
Disturbing stuff: The police and the public are quietly supporting this. It's acceptable behaviour in the culture of modern Russia. In fact, it's even illegal to publically protest this violence, as that would be considered 'gay propaganda', which is illegal. The red-haired chick with her herd of sociopathic boys actually think that they're doing the right thing, as they've got the public support behind them.
More disturbing stuff: Many people in Finland are quietly supporting it too. When the Finnish Minister for Culture and Sport travelled to Russia and waved a rainbow-coloured flag, several people in Finland were 'outraged': how dare he do such a thing! Apparently, they think that Russia will stop talking to us if we refuse to support their violence. Sorry, but human rights are infinitely more important than the money flows between Finland and Russia.
On the other hand, it's very easy for us Westerners to condemn the collective insanity of Russia and happily absorb our own forms of collective insanity.
Perhaps the most revealing detail in Hunted in Russia is a sentence that the British journalist's voice keeps repeating: "In Russia, gay people are treated like animals." He's probably not aware of it himself, but what he's actually saying is this: this violence would be totally fine and normal if the victims weren't humans.
It's easy to condemn the violence of other socities, and support the violence of the society around you. Really: if you want to make this world a less violent place, you're going to have to start with yourself. Painful. I know.
Here's a fact: the same psychological mechanisms that are allowing Russians to treat homosexuals the way they do are allowing us to treat non-human animals the way we do.
Now, somebody would say: "It's different! Violence towards animals is natural!" Oh no, guess what: so is violence towards humans. If you hear yourself starting to come up with these rationalizations and justifications, stop and consider the fact that a homophobic person in Russia would come up with almost identical rationalizations. If you wouldn't accept their reasons, let go of yours.
And now, somebody would say: "Well, at least protesting for animal rights isn't illegal here. At least we're better than the Russians in that sense." Maybe. For now. But several Western nations (the USA, especially) are creating laws to make it illegal to film the meat industry. (In order to protect profit; you see, if people knew how the animals are treated, they might want to boycott the industry.) Pretty soon, animal activism may be illegal. Sigh.
It's easy and fun to be fucking insane, if everybody else is. And then point your finger at other people making your mistakes and yell: those people are fucked up!
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