• axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Do Americans really care about Ukraine or is it some kind of bizarre propaganda misfire? Half of Americans couldn't point to Ukraine on a map now I'm supposed to believe there's some kind of international cheerleading effort? Or is it just Russia bad mentality

    • Cummunism [they/them, he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Americans care more if they are "relatively European" aka white. Seeing white people suffer makes them relate more than anyone with too much melanin.

        • Cummunism [they/them, he/him]
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          3 years ago

          i dont watch that shit end to end or anything, but it's probably pretty fucking common. the main example is how they portray black criminals vs white criminals. White criminals were just troubled young men, black criminals are violent thugs who were born that way. i havent been alive long enough to see white people shooting white people though.

          • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            White people shootings are often things like school shootings, where blame is shifted to Satanism, trench coats, goth subculture, video games, and not getting laid. Whatever scary thing is happening that year

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      1 year ago

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    • redfern45 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      It’s a majority white European country and the news coverage has been nonstop. Meanwhile the US has dropped bombs in at least Syria and Somolia this weekend… you tell me what most Americans care about

    • buh [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Or is it just Russia bad mentality

      it's this, plus for the first time in a long time the civilians being hurt in a war are white

          • Teekeeus
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            24 days ago

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          • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            US race science nonsense is so fucked that white Latinos regularly aren't considered white and get discriminated against from what I've heard. (Not American, could be wrong)

            Americans about to call Uruguay and Argentina POC countries

            • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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              3 years ago

              Yeah remember the very white blonde hair blue eyed argentine woman they called a poc awhile back lol

              It’s all dumb af

              white Latinos regularly aren’t considered white and get discriminated against from what I’ve heard

              yeah we have some one drop shit going and also certain cultural things can get your white card revoked

            • blobjim [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              "Non-white" in the US just means "I don't know what race that is".

    • Mother [any]
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      3 years ago

      Media (CIA) saturating the airwaves

      Americans care about what teevee says to care about

    • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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      3 years ago

      90% of Americans only vaguely knew Ukraine existed before this and the only reason they half did is bc of 2014 nobody gives a shit

    • eXAt [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      At least In Canada there already was a huge nationalist Ukrainian Diaspora (the Canada Ukraine thing isn't just a chapo injoke). For instance almost every major city has monuments to various Ukrainian Holocaust collaborators, and I remeber having almost a full month of public school social studies being spent on the 'holodomor'.

      • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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        3 years ago

        They even investigated the vandalising of a monument to the SS with graffiti saying "NAZI PIGS" as a hate crime, Canada takes the "Nazi is like the n word but for Ukranians" tweet seriously.

    • doctor_sociology [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      only 26% of americans think the country should play a major role in the ukraine. the vast majority don't care and have bigger personal issues than needing to give a shit about foreign wars