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Well it is to be expected from places like Russia and India tbh. I am from the UK and such comments would be seen as shocking but we all know Russia hates gay people it makes sense that employees who grew up and continue to live in Russia are going to have very Russian views. Just because they work for a modern, progressive company such as Google (or Microsoft or Apple ...) isn't going to change their opinions on such things.

You would have got the same kind of responses in America if you asked about how blacks should be treated/integrated into the company back in the 1950s.

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In your example I doubt a giant portion of people would say "burn them alive." I don't think you understand race relations in the US.

Regardless, this was 2008, not 1950s. It also wasn't only Russia and India. Americans, Europeans, and others also came back with extremely intolerant views as well TO THEIR EMPLOYER AND COLLEAGUES!!

Well you didn't mention that second part in your first post did you ;)

Also perhaps not burn alive but they certainly didn't have a problem with lynching them in the South did they?

If someone has different views than you then you have to respect that. And if you don't want to hear about those views then simply don't ask.

> Well it is to be expected from places like Russia and India tbh.

Every single person in the world knows that one hundred percent of all the people from the UK know damn well to stay away from generalizations. Oh wait.

You've interpreted a statistical claim about population means as a universal claim about all members of a group. That is incorrect, uncharitable, and unhelpful if your goal is discussion rather than browbeating.

Ugh I knew somebody would bring up generalisations. Yes yes I know not every single person in Russia hates and wants to kill gay people. Ask a gay person if they would go to Russia and be openly gay without worrying about it? I doubt you would find many who would be fine with doing that. I have been to Russia many times, it is an amazing place, but I have seen how anti-gay many places in Russia are so yeah I will generalise and say the majority seem to be against gays.

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