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The amount of hatred directed toward Russians in this blog post scares me, not sure why though. Some paragraphs...: "Russian government is ruled by this evil

The amount of hatred directed toward Russians in this blog post scares me, not sure why though. Some paragraphs...: "Russian government is ruled by this evil precisely because of who russian people are. Their individual choices led to this. It’s the nation of slaves. Even the smartest russians I know were surprising me from time to time with imperialist, sexist, racist narratives." "This shit is deeply rooted in the russian language too. It’s subconscious. Their tsars had been killing and raping them for centuries, and it became a part of their cultural DNA, which they learned to love."

bspammer 5y ago
I would probably have a similar reaction if my home country was attacked. Nuance basically goes out the window when everything you love is under threat.
pjc50 5y ago
Understandable given the situation, but ethnonationalism along language lines is one cause of this war in the first place. Street fighting between Ukranian and Russian speakers in the eastern regions -> Russian support for the Russian speakers -> breakaway oblasts with "little green men" -> takeover of Crimea -> Ukraine bans teaching of Russian -> Russia invades "to protect" its speakers, very similar to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. This kind of stuff is very difficult to stop escalating. It drags in bystanders. It's why EU human rights law protects minority languages and identities. (This is not blaming Ukraine, the country, for its invasion by the aggressor Russia, and Russia has definitely been inflaming language war issues for its own purposes)
ceilingcorner 5y ago
This article is straight up hatred propaganda and should be flagged. If you ever wondered how Americans of Japanese descent ended up in camps during WW2, now you know.
T-A 5y ago
I wouldn't characterize it as hatred. He's actually trying to come up with an explanation grounded in history for how Russians can be doing what they are doing to his country, and for this: https://www.levada.ru/en/ratings/ https://www.levada.ru/en/ratings/

bspammer 5y ago

I would probably have a similar reaction if my home country was attacked. Nuance basically goes out the window when everything you love is under threat.

pjc50 5y ago

Understandable given the situation, but ethnonationalism along language lines is one cause of this war in the first place. Street fighting between Ukranian and Russian speakers in the eastern regions -> Russian support for the Russian speakers -> breakaway oblasts with "little green men" -> takeover of Crimea -> Ukraine bans teaching of Russian -> Russia invades "to protect" its speakers, very similar to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. This kind of stuff is very difficult to stop escalating. It drags in bystanders. It's why EU human rights law protects minority languages and identities. (This is not blaming Ukraine, the country, for its invasion by the aggressor Russia, and Russia has definitely been inflaming language war issues for its own purposes)

ceilingcorner 5y ago

This article is straight up hatred propaganda and should be flagged. If you ever wondered how Americans of Japanese descent ended up in camps during WW2, now you know.

T-A 5y ago

I wouldn't characterize it as hatred. He's actually trying to come up with an explanation grounded in history for how Russians can be doing what they are doing to his country, and for this: https://www.levada.ru/en/ratings/ https://www.levada.ru/en/ratings/