• gnuhaut@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    So it’s not racist to say Russia is still in a barbaric mindset, because they are bombing apartment buildings in Ukraine? Is that it? Even though the way it was phrased implies that barbarism is typical of Russia and its history, and also falsely implies NATO isn’t barbaric and isn’t doing the same thing, and it’s a well-known racist trope?

    This person’s comment exhibits the common double standard of the good civilized nations vs. the uncivilized primitives bullshit, which is about the oldest racist narrative there is.

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      1 year ago

      I didn’t say anything about the people. Every Russian person I have met is super nice.

      Governments though, they suck. Governments bomb apartment buildings full of people. These particular governments are barbaric.

      I think it is important to acknowledge that both the US government and the Russian government are responsible for terrible atrocities. It is not racist to say that.

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          1 year ago

          While funny, I actually genuinely don’t believe that an entire population of people is “bad.” I’ve actually made a point of living in a lot of historically “bad” places, and it turns out, everyone just wants to eat good food and have a good time 😅