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A good read for folks riding on the anti-all-things-Russia bandwagon right now or for people with a more nuanced view trying to understand where the Russian ste
by cpursley 4y ago
A good read for folks riding on the anti-all-things-Russia bandwagon right now or for people with a more nuanced view trying to understand where the Russian stereotypes, tropes and general bigotry originate from:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34237648-creating-russophobia https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34237648-creating-russop...
- Mikeb85 4y agoThat book might have been relevent in 2005 but throw it out the window now. All anti-Russian sentiment in the world is due to the fact Russia is literally engaging in genocide against Ukrainians, right now.
- cpursley 4y agoAre you suggesting that bigotry is now okay towards all Russians?
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- WesolyKubeczek 4y ago
- dang 4y agoIf you continue to post like this to HN, we will ban you. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32240838 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32240838.
- Mikeb85 4y agoWhy don't you read what I wrote instead of making up your own meaning? Your link was about anti-Russian sentiment being tied to western propaganda when in reality, they're creating that sentiment through their own actions.
- kergonath 4y agoHostility against Russians as a group, and Russia as a nation-state, when this group is collectively aggressive? If you call that bigotry, then yes, definitely. As a nation, you cannot have self-determination and a free pass when you fuck up. You own your mistakes, just like all of Germany at the time own nazism even though not all of them were nazis. Against specific Russian people, that would be counter-productive and unfair. A lot of them individually disapprove of their government and act in smaller or larger ways against it. I know personally a couple of them, and Inadmire them because they are doing their best in a terrible situation. Collectively, they still put Putin in power and let him come to that point. It’s exactly the same thing in the US: a lot of Americans are great, but there is no escaping the fact that enough of them think that Trump was a good idea (and I have no doubt we will see worse in the near future).
- holoduke 4y agoGenocide is something entirely different. Watch out using that word. This a war about ground and resources, not an ethnic war.
- ROTMetro 4y agoAs someone with a Russian grandfather, who read all the classics, who took his daughter to the traveling Russian ballet each year where she waited after the show to take the ballerinas flowers, and then was motivated to learn ballet herself, I have HUGE attachments to Russia and Russian culture. But just like my russian speaking Ukrainian friends who called themselves 'Russians from Ukraine' prior to this war but now are just Ukrainian, the war changed everything.
- archagon 4y agoThis description just reads like Russian propaganda. Indeed, from the author's Wikipedia page: "Mettan's journalistic credibility has been questioned on several occasions. In 2017, Reporters Without Borders criticised Mettan for his pro-Russian militancy and for serving as a mouthpiece for Russian propaganda. Florian Irminger, Secretary General of the Swiss Green Party, also called Mettan an apologist for Putin's government. Following Mettan's support for the Ukraine bioweapons conspiracy theory in a Die Weltwoche essay in 2022, Swiss magazine Republik referred to the article as a 'breathtaking compendium' of Russian propaganda." From what I've seen, hand-wringing over "russophobia" is just another armament in Russia's information war.
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