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Using derogatory terms like "ruzzian" is against HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.ht
by cpursley 3y ago
Using derogatory terms like "ruzzian" is against HN guidelines:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- T-zex 3y ago[flagged]
- cpursley 3y agoWe don't do collective judgement/punishment here. Ping @dang
- deely3 3y agohttps://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ruzzian https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ruzzian
- hutzlibu 3y ago"(slang, derogatory, neologism) Alternative spelling of Russian."
- hdjjhhvvhga 3y agoUnfortunately we need some term to express what is happening; this is similar to using the terms "Germans" and "Nazis" interchangeably when speaking about WW2. For sure it's not true that all Russians support the war; many are against. Yet, these are Russian soldiers who are killing innocent Ukrainians. If we use the term "Russians", this bundles these two reinforcing the Putinist idea that "Russia is me" and that the war is one behalf of all Russia and all Russians. This big lie will have great consequences for the future so maybe using the term "Ruzzian" for the population supporting the atrocities of war is not such a bad solution.
- lnsru 3y agoInteresting theory. But I like it. There were soviets. I am one of them. Then there were russians. And now we have ruzzians. Russians could live in oil wealth like Saudis. But they went for ruzzians and that makes me sad.
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