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> Is it racism when everything bad is attributed to Russians? Yes. > Not everything is about intersectionality. Turns out everything involving oppressed grou
by guerrilla 7y ago
> Is it racism when everything bad is attributed to Russians?
Yes.
> Not everything is about intersectionality.
Turns out everything involving oppressed groups is, by definition.
- mc32 7y agoI don’t see how race is involved when it comes to Russians ( it’s something else, but it’s not racism). Non persecuted Chinese visitors are not an oppressed group when they volunteer to come here —just as I don’t automatically become oppressed if I get summarily turned back at PEK as a non Chinese.
- guerrilla 7y agoCompare the definition of racism with the phenomenon of russophobia and you'll see how russophobia is racism. "Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another. It may also include prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against other people because they are of a different race or ethnicity, or the belief that members of different races or ethnicities should be treated differently" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Russian_sentiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Russian_sentiment When you're selectively denied doing what you want (i.e. to "volunteer to come here") BECAUSE of the group you belong to then you are oppressed. It's not about what happenes to arbitrary specific individuals, it's about what happens to members of a group due to their membership in that group.