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It is true that he is not very advanced: he says that he did not participate actively in the group’s activities, did not attend the meetings much, and is hardly familiar with most of the colleagues. So the group will have a small loss, unless the arithmetic: a vote is lost. But being liberal, it is difficult to imagine a man among them who would allow himself to post on a Facebook live broadcast: “Today, in some European countries, it is even dangerous to say that you, a representative of a natural orientation (lyrical deviation, has lost the hearing that someone around him would have come to mind just by marrying a woman or marrying a man if this meant “natural orientation”). (…) I mean pedicures, perverts, those to whom fate, life has given so much, it is not their fault that there is some kind of desire for a man to feel in clothes like a woman. Most of these people don’t advertise, but those who put their pimples under their skirts and go out into the streets scream, they are pediatricians, perverts and things like that should not be tolerated.
Eriko Ovcharenko / 15min nuotr./Viktoras Uspaskich
And for this V.Uspaskich received, not with a fist to the head, but the opportunity to look for another faction in the EP (if there is someone who wants to see him in their ranks). The offender scattered his head in ashes, apologizing in a letter to Renew Europe and did not miss the opportunity to complain that he is constantly insulted because of his Russian origin, which suffers from a Russophobic mood. Pala pala, or not himself, as Minister of Economy, called the journalist who asked the question in front of the camera your pu? Going here is definitely not an insult.
The MEP assured that he did not mean to offend LGBT people (and who else has the word “pedicure” in Lithuania?), And his words, “perhaps too rude or used with insufficient caution, but taken out of context”, were misinterpreted . Chrestomathy Quote: As soon as someone gets mad at someone’s words, it turns out that they (mostly journalists) didn’t understand it and took it out of context. They listen very badly to phrases that say ‘gay’, ‘lesbian’, ‘pervert’, ‘pedophile’, and especially if they fall into a single sentence.
Perhaps you heard about a photo of two children kissing and leading to a case against Lithuania at the European Court of Human Rights? The courts also explained that the guys were at fault if they posted those photos on Facebook and then the commenters (did they really get everything right?) Offered to kill them.
In Lithuania there are already a large number of politicians, public figures and well-known people who are so misunderstood. There were current and future ministers (remember the rumors that sexual minorities are just propaganda?), Future deputy ministers and mayors, current and future spokesmen for the Seimas, current and future members of the European Parliament, party leaders, state officials. There were words about genetic and mental illnesses, perversions, zoophilia and necrophilia, homosexuality of life, shame.
Do you remember that a politician wasted in insults would have resigned from the Seimas or ministers, would have been expelled from a parliamentary faction and an official would have lost his position?
It is not a shame that the politicians of our country were not afraid to insult the citizens of their state, perhaps even their voters (some of them had not been so “revealed” during the elections). There was no noise from senior officials to say so ugly. There was widespread outrage that a man with hands and feet and a working and earning head, who has not been “delivered” by any organs, who needs medication only during flu season, but who wants to cuddle with a man rather For a woman (or conversely), calling a patient simply because it is so is not allowed.
We cannot say that we are not civilians and we cannot, if necessary, unite against injustice. A few posts on Facebook are enough, and the intercessory movement of dogs crammed into cages of trees being cut down or in illegal cages is cleverly recorded. We protect Lithuanian children even in Norway. When it turned out that the Grigeo Klaipėda company was polluting the Curonian lagoon, thousands of people skilfully started looking for another toilet paper.
Of course, there are reactions. Lithuanian Gay League, Tolerant Youth Association, Center for Human Rights or other non-governmental organization spread outrage, witty internet commentators create various memorandum… When the then Minister of Justice Juozas Bernatonis considered that there were not enough homosexual couples in Lithuania that needed the Association Law (which, by the way, does not even have a “normal” partner), a group of non-governmental parties attended an event where politicians read posters aloft and rainbow flags before their eyes. Website gayline.lt On the occasion of Valentine’s Day, ironic elections were held several times, in which people who opposed LGBT people voluntarily participated.
But, do you remember that that politician wasted in insults would have resigned from the Seimas or the ministers, would have been expelled from a parliamentary faction and an official would have lost his position? I remember a case where the author and host of the Lithuanian radio show “Autumn Studio with Vaidotas Žukas” said in 2004: “Our especially capable and talented Commissioner Dalia Grybauskaitė is a public or non-public truth, but she is a representative of minorities. she herself “. Say goodbye to ether. The European commissioner was angry and called it an attack.
Was she attacked with just a few of these two dozen words? To say that someone is single, married, homosexual, has children (this is almost guaranteed proof of having a relationship with the opposite sex, unless artificial insemination is used) is not an insult. It’s more disgusting to be called rice, quadrupeds, or masa (this is from my arsenal of insults at school). But you see how it happened: the man lost his job.
Photo by Žygimantas Gedvila / 15min / Valdemaras Valkiūnas, Petras Gražulis
And a new case, but the same, not from the skies of Lithuanian politics. On Wednesday, the Americans said goodbye to Donald Trump and the liberals of the EP said goodbye to V. Uspaskich. And who has us? No politician or two have called LGBT people perverts, no one has lost their hair. Last November, the full benefit was organized by deputy Valdemaras Valkiūnas. In considering the candidacies of the vice presidents of Seimas, he described the LGBT community as “possibly a criminal organization.” A week later, while considering Ingrida Šimonyt’s candidacy for Prime Minister, he warned that “working at the Seimas is not a lesbian show or a homosexual concert.” A little later, in an interview, he called the Freedom Party “pedals.” Consequently, the representative of this party, Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius, appeared before the Ethics and Procedures Commission, but this decision has not yet been taken.
It is not even necessary to write about Petras Gražulis, just mention her name and probably before many people will see the image of a member of the Seimas “flying” in the hands of police shouting “By Lithuania, men!” Lithuania, like many others, insults him, unheard of, after the attack almost a decade ago at a press conference attended by diplomats from other countries, the message was also echoed in foreign media.
Do you know what else the politician of good has done for Lithuania (the same one he marched for during the Baltic Pride march), apart from similar actions and comments? What law or significant initiative has been proposed, what evils have been eradicated, what large foreign company has created a thousand more jobs in our country at your invitation? Cultural people don’t even want him on the Culture Committee. The only things that remain in P. Gražulis’s last name in my memory are dumplings, accidents and a child. And, of course, the relentless struggle with gays.
P.Auštrevičius, who worked in the same faction with V.Uspaskich until Wednesday, pointed out that the removal of the MEP would be a good opportunity to start reacting more strictly to homophobic statements in Lithuania as well. According to human rights activist Jūratė Juškaitė, apologies alone are not enough (and should not be addressed to the factions of the EP, but to the offensive LGBT community in our country); First, we must educate the public and reduce exclusion. of sexual minorities.
A few years ago, David Caron, the then leader of the UK Conservative Party and the opposition, jokingly joked about “supporting one-legged Lithuanian lesbians” during a private lunch, ably asked by Ambassador Vygaudas Ušackas to explain this British humor. Almost never will the leader of any of our parties call his members to explain why he is insulting potential voters, and Gargždas will be represented by a more respectable member of the Seimas? The EP has already set an example.
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