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Man, you're comparing American "cancel culture" to actual torture and murder of opposition and journalists, kidnapping, beatings by unmarked men, spray painting
by lotusmars 5y ago
Man, you're comparing American "cancel culture" to actual torture and murder of opposition and journalists, kidnapping, beatings by unmarked men, spray paintings "Z" and "traitor" on the walls, prosecution of relatives?
You are just rich Westerners who love to downplay our struggle just to make yourselves victims.
- mc32 5y agoHow did it all start? I'm not equivocating them --what is happening there is monstrous, as is what's happening to a lesser degree in China and other places, and we are no way there. But the setting of narrative is the same. They are using narrative to achieve different goals. However, the tool is propaganda exerted by undemocratic institutions. I think we agree it's a dangerous tool that can be leveraged to do bad things. They are being used for bad things in Russia, we're not leveraging this tool for this purpose --but that does not prevent it from being used in the future for a bad purpose.
- lotusmars 5y agoOne of the catalysts were probably 1999 bombings of apartment buildings[1] that were very suspicious (including one where FSB were actually caught planting hexogen by a local militia) and led to dramatic rise of Putin. Along with crackdown on media it created a narrative where you have a strata that must have their rights removed and be hated by society. First it were "terrorists" and then to a different degree "opposition", "journalists", "LGBT", foreigners and Ukrainians. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_apartment_bombings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_apartment_bombings