• kd637_mi@lemmy.sdf.org
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    You can be an ethnic Russian. That’s kind of besides the point though, “racial” boundaries are very often blurred and a hard and fast division of peoples is inherently a generalisation.

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      Ethnicity is also not race. It’s dumb to try to accuse people of “racism” against russians

      • kd637_mi@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        Whatever, plain old xenophobic hatred then. It’s a good thing pedantry is alive and well.

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          It’s not xenophobia either; russia is the invader and oppressor, with overwhelming popular support domestically. Using derogatory terms for an oppressor that’s raping, torturing, and murdering isn’t any kind of phobia.

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      Russia litteraly declared war and invaded Ukraine for an ethnic purge. They can stay in Russia if they don’t want to die from western weapons.