Guilt by free-association
Guilt by association used to refer primarily to the people one associates with. (I am guessing the 'socia' part of the word is from the same root as social) You were friends with Bob, Bob is a Communist, etc.. "Paling around with terrorists" and so forth.
Today it is more guilt by free-association where the passive-aggressive insinuation of guilt becomes a stream-of-consciousness art form.
And in that sense, yes... Snowden is obviously a homophobe.
Or perhaps Snowden defeated Hitler, produced The Brothers Karamazov and was the first leaker to launch an object into Earth orbit.
Who can say?
As comical and low as guilt-by-free-association is, we should not spare approval-by-free-association either.
Yes, there are persons in the world who minimize moral deficiencies of the Russian state because Snowden is there... or simply out of a desire to disagree 180 degrees with the other "side," and that is pretty darned embarrassing.
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