_xDEADBEEF@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoSri Lanka ends visas for hundreds of thousands of Russians staying there to avoid warwww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square83fedilinkarrow-up1555arrow-down19 cross-posted to: worldnews@lemmy.mlukraine@sopuli.xyz
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minus-squarelolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down4·edit-29 months agoRussian is an ethnicity. Bigotry against an ethnicity is not different in any meaningful way from bigotry against a race. Referring to it as racism may be technically incorrect but it get the right idea across.
minus-squaremojofrododojo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down4·9 months agono one’s asserting ALL russians - Navalney was a hero for example. But the country is run by a shitstain of a human being; calling them orcs or chuds is certainly justified by their warcrime actions.
Russian is an ethnicity. Bigotry against an ethnicity is not different in any meaningful way from bigotry against a race. Referring to it as racism may be technically incorrect but it get the right idea across.
no one’s asserting ALL russians - Navalney was a hero for example.
But the country is run by a shitstain of a human being; calling them orcs or chuds is certainly justified by their warcrime actions.