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Most Russians hold racist views. It doesn't change if they are expats. As a result of the colonial conquests, Russia is a multiethnic state. But the minorities
by lykahb 2y ago
Most Russians hold racist views. It doesn't change if they are expats. As a result of the colonial conquests, Russia is a multiethnic state. But the minorities have never been fully accepted. The govt balances between suppressing the far right and managing it for its own purposes.
This wiki article has plenty of references, with many pointing to the racist actions by the senior officials https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Russia
- andy24 2y agoThis blanked statement is false. I’m speechless somebody can make claims like this tbh.
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- tokai 2y agoDefinitely not false. Actually quite well covered by journalists and scholars. As an example: https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/29938/chapter-abstract/254191335?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=true https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/2...
- andy24 2y agoThe article studies properties of a nationalist group, which is in extreme minority, especially after 2010s, and doesn’t make claims that ‘most Russians are nationalists’. You have to lurk really hard to find a nationalist there unless you count people love Dostoyevsky into this group. There are also a lot of glass ceilings in place for ethnical Russians, and distribution in elite universities, politics, and business don’t represent the country average, which suggests there’s an intentional ’reverse racism’ in place towards majority. Moreover, the word ‘Russian’ is banned in media and is replaced by ‘citizen of Russia’.
- hot_gril 2y agoYeah yeah, it's also well covered by journalists how all Americans are racist.
- cpursley 2y ago> Most Russians hold racist views I understand that people are unhappy with Russia right now, but what a truly gross thing to say (and absolutely not true).
- a_c_s 2y agoVery true when it comes to antisemitic views: only 1 in 10 Russians would be ok having a Jewish friend. "In a Levada Center poll, for instance, 45 percent of Russians said they had a positive attitude toward Jews in 2021, up from 22 percent in 2010. Russians said Jews were the minority group they were most comfortable having close to them — but only 11 percent said they’re ready to have a Jewish friend, up from 3 percent in 2010." https://www.politico.eu/article/vladimir-putin-ukraine-war-forces-russia-jews-adapt-new-life-home-abroad/ https://www.politico.eu/article/vladimir-putin-ukraine-war-f...
- cpursley 2y agoOh please, Levada? lol. I understand there's a big psyops push to dehumanize Russians right now, but they are people like the rest of us. Crazy, right?
- slt2021 2y agoNo, russians are incredibly racists and openly hostile to central asia migrant laborers. Experienced it myself
- cpursley 2y agoWait, are you agreeing that Russians aren't humans?
- slt2021 2y agoHitler and Pol Pot were also humans, yet they did very bad things to other fellow humans. Nobody is denying that ru are humans, we are simply acknowledging that someone did very bad things against principles of humanity, did it deliberately, at scale, and over a very long time period.