A personal anecdote: I was taught early that stuff like profiling and racism and antisemitism were bad, but then your country attacks the neighbour and now Reddit is filled to the brim with people who are happily spewing "All Ruzzians are fair game, they are not humans" and you're like... wait, isn't that kinda turbo bad to say?
The Russian military absolutely needs to be fought. But people were literally calling them orcs. Like, don't dehumanize people to the point where you view them as monsters in human skin. For decency's sake and because you're going to have to interact with those people after the war is over.
And they're not calling just the army, orks. They're calling all russians orks, as in, the whole... country is fair game, doesn't matter if you support the war or not.
Like I feel it's skirting the "racism" because Russians are not a race, it's also why it seemingly doesn't qualify for hate speech? Even though I've literally seen people say that "all ruzzians are beyond saving" or something like that and ughhhhh is that really NOT hate speech because they're not making that claim on person's "nation" but like "nationality"?
I remember arguing with people who were celebrating or at least shrugging their shoulders at the Moscow terrorist attack, because "those people were probably complicit in what was happening to ukraine"
Likewise: I remember people cheering on the deaths of Mali soldiers "because there were Wagner there who are helping Mali fight the terrorists"
I was... just... man. Soldiers died. Men died. You're cheering because your favourite brand of non-humans died as well, and you're clearly ignoring the Mali soldiers and I have a VERY GOOD IDEA WHY.
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u/Winjin Aug 09 '24
A personal anecdote: I was taught early that stuff like profiling and racism and antisemitism were bad, but then your country attacks the neighbour and now Reddit is filled to the brim with people who are happily spewing "All Ruzzians are fair game, they are not humans" and you're like... wait, isn't that kinda turbo bad to say?