Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
(Please send me links to any examples I've missed, I'll add them to this post. Also feel free to send this post elsewhere and use it as agitprop. )
CNN
It’s one thing for sarin gas to be used on people in far away Syria who are Muslim and of a different culture. What is Europe going to do when it is on European soil, done to Europeans?
-- Julia Ioffe
CBS News
This isn't a place ... like Iraq or Afghanistan that has seen conflict raging for decades. This is a relatively civilized, relatively European ... city where you wouldn't expect that, or hope that it's going to happen.
BBC News
'It's very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair...being killed every day by Putin's missiles'
Al Jazeera
What's compelling is just looking at them, the way they're dressed, these are prosperous...middle class people. These are not obviously refugees trying to get away from areas in the middle east that are still in a big state of war, these are not people trying to get away from areas in north Africa, they look like any European family that you would live next door to.
NBC News
These are not refugees from Syria, these are refugees from neighbouring Ukraine....These are Christians, so, white, they're very similar to people who live in Poland
ITV News
Now the unthinkable has happened to them, and this is not a developing, third world nation, this is Europe.
BFM TV
We’re not talking here about Syrians fleeing the bombing of the Syrian regime backed by Putin, we’re talking about Europeans leaving in cars that look like ours to save their lives.
The Telegraph
They seem so like us. That is what makes it so shocking. War is no longer something visited upon impoverished and remote populations. It can happen to anyone
Other examples
French media doing the same
Bulgarian PM
These are not the refugees we are used to. They are Europeans, intelligent, educated people, some are IT programmers...this is not the usual refugee wave of people with an unknown past. No European country is afraid on them.
Black people blocked from escaping Ukraine/entering nearby countries
A Nigerian medical student at Poland/Ukraine border (Medyka-Shehyni) told me she has been waiting 7hrs to cross, she says border guards are stopping black people and sending them to the back of the queue, saying they have to let 'Ukrainians' through first.
Official Ukrainian National Guard Twitter account
Azov fighters of the National Guard greased the bullets with lard against the Kadyrov orcs
Denmark likely to exempt Ukrainians from controversial refugee jewllery law
A controversial law allowing Danish authorities to confiscate valuable items from refugees is unlikely to be applied to Ukrainians who seek protection in the Nordic country.
Others (unconfirmed/unverified)
We are currently at the Ukraine-Poland border. Their Police and Army refused to let Africans cross they only allow Ukrainian.
Ukrainian forces brutally beating Indian Students in Ukraine after India abstained on UN vote against Russia.
Links in order, all archived
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227200905/https://twitter.com/incontextmedia/status/1497608440134340610
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201110/https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1497718700547346433
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201116/https://twitter.com/DocRobotnivik/status/1497895651887271938
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201122/https://twitter.com/ruchirsharma_1/status/1497655099979714563
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201127/https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1497878168216252416
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201131/https://twitter.com/RioMoussallem/status/1497535170450231301
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201135/https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1497652701890555914
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201145/https://twitter.com/PierreABISAAB/status/1497592136329531394
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201146/https://twitter.com/VictorPPetrov/status/1497600362626359296
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201149/https://twitter.com/TihomirSabchev/status/1497264454236610563
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201151/https://twitter.com/stephhegarty/status/1497603013799784449
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227200242/https://twitter.com/ng_ukraine/status/1497924614865002497
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201157/https://twitter.com/nzekiev/status/1497805019311218689
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201159/https://twitter.com/Damilare_arah/status/1497654141350522880
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201208/https://twitter.com/Damilare_arah/status/1497650917088374790
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The Chinese ambassador who’s still at Kiev released a video statement yesterday explaining that evacuating people by flight right now is probably more dangerous than staying put. He also had to ask the Chinese citizens in Ukraine to basically hide who they are. There’s info circulating in Ukraine that that China is backing Russia, etc, and the statement mentions that “aggressive and unfriendly” behaviors have already occurred to some Chinese there.
I’ve seen a few videos from young Chinese uni students at Kiev and Kharkiv saying that they don’t feel safe going into the shelters cuz everyone has guns and, I think one can imply, uncertainty about what the Ukrainians think of China/the Chinese right now.
murdering chinese people in cold blood would just bait PRC from ambivalence into openly supporting the russians in this war imo. the prc has a great relationship with ukraine before the war (their first carrier, the liaoning, was purchased from ukraine in the late 1990s.)