they use “trump regime is occupied by russians” similar to how nazis use “its the jooz”
Misuse of the word “racist” aside, if you’re generalizing about the inherent qualities of the Russian people, that’s still bigotry. If you’re calling out negative aspects of their laws, government, or culture, that’s not bigotry, that’s constructive criticism. If you’re pointing out the mistakes of their history that’s education to bring awareness and hoodlums prevent recurrence. If you’re calling all speech that is negative in any way about Russia “russophobia”, or “racism”, regardless of the nature of that speech, then you’re a Russian apologist and stooge.
It’s pretty simple: speech that displays mistrust, dislike, or hate for the inherent traits of a people is bigotry. Speech that displays mistrust, dislike, or hate for ideals and actions is just disagreement/politics.
Can’t wait till they find out Putin is a lib and the West’s last friend in Russia
Exactly, this is something most people in the west don’t seem to grasp. Putin is as pro western as it gets in Russia, and the main criticism of him is that he’s not pursuing the war hard enough. If he somehow did get ousted, it’s almost certain that he’d be replaced by somebody far more hardline.
But we have to keep warmongering because Slava Ukraini…worked out so well last time
But that is not the case, and you could measure the hypocrisy using cold hard data. Just compare how liberals talk about the USA and USAians during the invasion of… well pick any, vs how liberal talk about Russia and Russians. It’s measurably different by like an order of magnitude. Not to speak of the governments reaction and sanctions and support for weapons. When I see lemmy liberals advocating for donating vast amount of weaponry to e.g. Iran I’ll reconsider. Actually advocating for that is probably illegal where you live though.
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Proving the meme correct, lmao
Idk I just find it weird how every time Ukraine blows Russian infrastructure all the anti ukraine and pro Russian memes show up
it sounds like you need expand your news sources outside of the western echo chamber.
I don’t see the connection, opposition to Kiev and critical support for Russia is an ongoing thing. You still proved OP correct by dehumanizing them.
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My dude is spiraling.
They are projecting racism? Against whom?
I think the implication is that strakitar is the one who is “spiraling,” not OP. Amnesigenic is not saying anything about projecting racism.
I like to use it as a kind of gauge. Every time this guy starts spamming we know Ukraine blew up a refinery or something. The more vocal they get, the more damage. But don’t engage too much, we mustn’t feed the trolls.
Go back to Reddit
You take negative feedback as a positive because you’re in a cult. 8 years ago you would have been able to identify this trait in Trump supporters now you’re the same as them.
Taking note of the liberal penchant for frothing racism and hatred of Russians is always apropos because liberals have been continuously frothing with hatred of Russians, especially for the past four and half years. It has nothing to do with recent events, but it is rather telling that you would tie someone’s posting of a meme about continuous liberal racism to the latest Ukrainian atrocity (which was actually the mass murder of students, not just the usual destruction of civilian infrastructure), because yes, those Ukrainian crimes do happen with regularity too.
Feel like we should defederate with them. They have nothing but dog shit takes designed to be divisive.
Lemmy.world can continue to isolate itself, slowly defederating from every leftist instance one by one until the echo chamber is complete, I suppose.
And then it’s just another Reddit
Already is tbh
