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Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to this if you can, thank you.
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
Ukrainians being white certainly helps. I have very clear memories of nobody giving a shit about Iraq or Afghanistan and at worst people just assumed whomever was being shot at was a terrorist.
To this day, Americans who opine about how bad the Iraq War was complain only about wasted money and US soldier lives. They don’t even think to mention Iraqis
Any time I ever have brought up Iraqi deaths, Syrian deaths, Libyan deaths, Vietnamese deaths, Korean deaths, etc. all Americans immediately roll their eyes and check out of the conversation. They won’t even go there, they won’t touch it with a ten foot pole
whataboutism!!!
We really are a nasty bunch of people. Americans, that is.
I hate being part of a villain faction.
Growing up, I tended to choose villain factions because I identified more with "the other". Now I see that the people who define "the other" are the real villains.
Dark Eldar are still ancap elves though.
Necrons are the cool old grandpas who know for a fact that all the other factions are full of shit
If I were to start today, I'd probably do a Genestealer Cult Soviet. But I have too much buy-in with my trust-fund elves that feed off others' suffering. I have bought and painted a soviet biker and given him a turban.
Their whiteness certainly helps them being perceived as human but whiteness is not enough. Nobody gave a shit about the people of the Donbass, despite them being just as white as Ukrainians.
The extra component that makes westoids so involved this time is that the bad guy making them flee is an official enemy of the state which makes the stenographers of power in mainstream media eager to portray the horrors of war as they instinctively understands how it's helping the geopolitical objectives of the state.
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Yes, "white" has broader implications than colorism
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:chomsky-yes-honey: Finally some good fucking worthy victims :chefs-kiss:
It is still wild to me that Slavs have been promoted to "White".
For bonus points there are actually a fair number of blond haired, blue eyed Iranians, which is another one that has always been weird to me vis a vis American race politics.