If you have any useful resource links please tag me in a comment with the link.

Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Please add to this if you can.

Links

Time/Map: https://time.is/Ukraine

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ukraine/@49.1162725,31.7993839,7z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x40d1d9c154700e8f:0x1068488f64010!8m2!3d48.379433!4d31.1655799?hl=en

Leftist discussion threads:

https://hexbear.net/post/177324

https://old.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/t03foy/genzedong_russiaukraine_master_discussion_thread/

https://lemmygrad.ml/

Twitter military updaters:

https://nitter.net/ASBMilitary

https://nitter.net/Militarylandnet

https://nitter.net/MihajlovicMike

https://nitter.net/KofmanMichael

https://nitter.net/TadeuszGiczan/status/1498673348183744518

Global South Perspective: https://nitter.net/kiranopal_/status/1498723206496145413

Better war/propaganda analysis:

https://www.understandingwar.org

https://www.moonofalabama.org/

News updates:

https://www.cgtn.com/special/UkraineCrisis.html

Live: https://www.cgtn.com/special/Live-update-Ukraine-Russia-border-crisis.html

YT/Video in Ukraine:

https://www.youtube.com/c/PatrickLancasterNewsToday/videos

https://www.youtube.com/c/RussellBentleyTe

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    • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah, the mods can be trigger-happy with new accounts, but this is also basically the only place on the internet I can stand any more, and a good part of that is because of the moderation.

      • Donut
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        1 year ago

        deleted by creator

        • HodgePodge [love/loves]
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          3 years ago

          Only good mods on the internet. It's almost like they're lefties or something.

          edit: not even mad they removed my one post that triggered a bunch of SWERFs. That shit must have been awful to moderate.

      • MrsPutin [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Lol I am a long time lurker. I’ve been banned before for dumb reasons (telling a mod that I refuse to read a book regardless of the subject matter was my personal favorite) but this time I just have to roll my eyes. Yes, Zizek is being edgy when he describes a country as raping another country. With that said, you numbskulls don’t seem to get that we sanitize the exact same rhetoric when we watch news that says borders are being “violated”. Violated is just fancy talk rape, let the guy who speaks four languages rant in a way that makes sense to him who gives a shit.

        • HodgePodge [love/loves]
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          3 years ago

          telling a mod that I refuse to read a book regardless of the subject matter was my personal favorite

          found the transphobe. Read Trans Liberation Beyond Pink and Blue, ya fucking liberal.

          :leslie-shining:

        • HodgePodge [love/loves]
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          3 years ago

          Violated is just fancy talk rape, let the guy who speaks four languages rant in a way that makes sense to him who gives a shit.

          :very-intelligent: "I have never been affected by anything serious and everything is just an idea for me to use as lube. I do not understand why people affected by an experience might not appreciate having that experience appropriated because I am privileged. Also I eat poop straight out of the toilet with my bare hands yim yum"

          The above is a direct quote from @MrsPutin. @MrPutin - did you know this about your counterpart?

        • shiny [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Can someone point me to edgy Zizek post? With no prior knowledge it sounds like an instance of 1M deaths being a statistic b/c “Russia raping Ukraine” likely involves death and rape on a mass scale

          • solaranus
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            1 year ago

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          • HodgePodge [love/loves]
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            3 years ago

            Just tried to find it, but the mods correctly ripped it off the site already.

            Zizek did that thing again where he gets fixated on an idea, has too much privilege to empathize with not being a shitfuck, and then violently shits the contents of an entire dumpster out onto a page and publishes it. The article actually made me lose respect for Zizek.

            • shiny [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              just read and was not at all what I thought it would be :confusion:

              I do think it’s good to make horrors present themselves as horrors to casual readers such as (CW SA)

              spoiler

              Rape of Nanking

              but this isn’t done well lel

              • HodgePodge [love/loves]
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                3 years ago

                RIGHT? It was inarticulate and fucking sloppy.

                btw can you spoilers your last comment as well? We should do that for other comrades.

                Further discussion (CW: SA /SV)

                Rape of Nanking involved... well... a lot of actual rape. Applying the language of rape outside of the context of sexual assault and sexual violence both weakens the language and is triggering for those who have survived such events. It also is almost only done by men, which is a whole thing Zizek could actually write a good essay on if he got over his weird shit and was more self aware.

                Slavoj pisses me off because I can tell he is smart and also he broadcasts how insecure and needy he is for everyone to know it. That frequently gets in the way of him being able to actually do interesting things and he frequently winds up shooting off ridiculously fucked takes. I could bully that out of him in like a weekend maybe idk I'd only do it if I had a gun and a lot of hallucinogens.

                This post got long because I'm drunk whoops.

      • MrsPutin [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Someone doing a job badly and someone volunteering badly is practically the same thing, remember how they fumbled the vegan debacle.

          • HodgePodge [love/loves]
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            3 years ago

            wreckers wrecked, two parts of the site fought, wreckers pretended to be accounts belong to both sides :both-sides: of the site, some people took the bait :bait:, mods banned accounts including those that took the :bait:, no one was happy, most (all? idk) of the mods quit, :hexbear-logo: is still here.

            idk I probably missed something I hung around for about an hour and left after someone

            started saying some racist shit against vegans (click for awful)

            anyone who was vegan was "colonizing" themselves :cringe:

            seriously, the struggle session turned into "are you vegan or do you support People of Color"? which is like... :bruh: I'm not surprised everyone involved quit how do you even deal with those :brainworms: from a bunch of assholes for free lmao

            Normal people moved on, some weird nerds like OP occasionally still crank one out about it on their 1 day old accounts before they post something transphobic, shitty, or racist and get banned lol

            • MrsPutin [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              Lick boot harder, comrade, people should be allowed to mention past events. Bans on this site are meaningless if you don’t have a consistent post style or are writing a series of exposes, but still there are just stupid and obviously avoidable hills to die on here that usually grow out of “I know someone who might be triggered by this, please ban anything that is remotely close to it” wreckers, who then call anyone who doesn’t care a wrecker themselves. (Wrecker is a bad term that means unperson at this point)

          • MrsPutin [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            The site was consistently anti meat and decided to onboard some group on Reddit that predictably acted irrationally and had to be banned.

    • HodgePodge [love/loves]
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      3 years ago

      So you're saying you got banned for supporting using rape experiences as a rhetorical argument.

      Yeah Mr.Putin, that uhh sounds about right.

      If shitting on misogynists makes you an ultra, than you can call me Gonzalo.