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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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  • eXAt [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Apparently the Canadian Government is encouraging people to volunteer. The globe and mail posted a fawning article of a person STILL IN HIGH SCHOOL going to volunteer. All the comments were people encouraging this 'bravery'. How as an adult could you possibly support this? The Canadian mind is truly perverse.

        • eXAt [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I realize after typing this that this is asking more about the 9/11 reaction, but for others here is some of the Canadian reaction to current events.

          Yesterday there was the hostage taking of a plane that contained Russian nationals, the CHL (Canadian Hockey League, comprising of the three junior leagues the WHL, OHL, QMJHL), a league for teenagers, will no longer be admitting Russians or Belarusians. Our deputy PM has been seen holding OUN/right-sector iconography, any push back on this last point is dismissed as 'dis-info' and 'misogyny' .

          • skyhighfly [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            hostage taking of a plane that contained Russian nationals

            This actually happened BTW:

            https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/crime-pmn/charter-aircraft-carrying-russian-nationals-held-at-canadian-airport-minister

            https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/charter-aircraft-carrying-russian-foreign-nationals-held-canadian-airport-2022-03-03/

          • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
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            3 years ago

            I would rather be a Muslim in Canada on September 12 2001 than a Russian in Canada on February 25 2022. Absolutely no question whatsoever about that.

            :huh:

            Certainly nothing to do with all of the poor fleeing Ukranian fascists Army soldiers that fled the country right after ww2, right?

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

              Yup, canada change immigration laws as early as 1948 to specifically let in fascists by calling them anticommunists. By the early 50s it was basically 'show your ss tattoo for entry'.

              • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
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                3 years ago

                specifically let in fascists by calling them anticommunists.

                Oh boy another reason to say :same-picture: when somebody says they're "not a fascist, just an anti-communist"

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

          Not the person your asking and I’m American not Canadian but the parallels are pretty stark to me. I was young but old enough to remember 9/11 aftermath pretty clearly and it’s probably the only time I’ve seen this level of just outright bloodlust from every western person

          One of the things I remember about post 9/11 was the ostracization of Islamic/Arab people. I heard a lot of extremely casual islamophobia and anti-Arab racism. People saying stuff like they don’t use toilet paper etc. Lots of misinformation about them in the media as well as it calling for us to glass the Middle East, hoo-rah america shit. It was very much if you said anything nuanced about the situation or dare mention we were there for imperialist/resource-driven reasons you were straight up guilty of treason.

          A lot of the rhetoric in the media and conversations brings me right back to then. It’s wild. Real time is a flat circle hours in a lot of ways.

    • solaranus
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      1 year ago

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      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
        ·
        3 years ago

        Assuming they don't end up like those Spanish fascist volunteers outside of Leningrad lmao

      • eXAt [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        The kid in the article was pictures wearing a ball cap containing the following iconography:

        A black Ukrainian coat of arms inside a white circle, which itself is set within a larger red circle.

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      What are they going to do once Canadian kids starts coming home in boxes or end up in Russian prisons?

      The responsible adults in the room ought to tell these kids to knock it off, not encouraging them to throw themselves into the meat grinder.

      • eXAt [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        They are 100% gonna double down, however that may look. What's also gonna happen is that the ones that come back will have received right-sector/azov political education and military training.

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

          Pretty sure thats the plan. Conspiracy time, they want more trained fash because its bad optics to have an official government sanctioned unit like from the army doing terror on the streets. They got to distance themselves from that. They know capital is failing, the signs are all around us. What comes to save capital? Fascism.

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
      ·
      3 years ago

      Maybe they want to convince a lot of the trukkers to volunteer to die from Russian artillery fire?

    • TheModerateTankie [any]
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      3 years ago

      I think the pandemic making everything horrible for so long for everyone is feeding into the frenzy of this conflict. Everyone's dropping restrictions and this is an opportunity to distract from the "new normal" being absolute dogshit.