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Sadly, being anti-Russian has become the new green. Russian's are humans too and deserve as much respect and consideration as every other nationality. Remembe
by Ice_cream_suit 5y ago
Sadly, being anti-Russian has become the new green.
Russian's are humans too and deserve as much respect and consideration as every other nationality.
Remember, next time your race / religion / sexual orientation/ nationality might be the one being demonised, simply because someone powerful can make money out of having the masses hate you.
Resist the urge to give into mindless hatred and jingoism.
- Gravyness 5y agoYou mean the actions of a single person in power does not reflect 100% of the population of a country? Carefull, next you'll be telling me to think for myself or something!
- xdennis 5y agoPutin would not be doing this if he didn't have wide support for killing Ukrainians. The vast majority of Russians support the war.
- ecf 5y agoIf it were _only_ a single person, then it would be trivial to stop said person. Russian support for the war in Ukraine is a whole lot more commin than you think.
- yywwbbn 5y agoThe Russian people (unlike most other people in history who were targets of ethnic hatred) have the full control to stop this, though. I don’t think any Russians who have declared their opposition to their current government are explicitly targeted. And it’s doubtful that most western people could easily tell a Russian and an Ukrainian apart. So I fail to see the ethnic/racial component here and I think it’s perfectly legitimate to discriminate people based on their political views in certain cases (supporting an unprovoked war of aggression by a less democratic country against a more democratic one (however flawed) is definitely one of them). If you equate the Russian people and the Russian government with all of it’s supporters (explicit and implicit ones) that’s on you..