• darkernations@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    Yes imperialism also bad

    It would be worthwhile looking up:

    • Western financing and arming of fascists,
    • the Odessa Massacres,
    • the renaming of streets to Nazi collaborators and their celebration as heroes,
    • the brutal torture and murder of eastern Ukrainians since the installation of the Western approved Ukrainian government after the previous one underwent a coup following refusal of IMF loans,
    • the brutal subjugation and torture of minorities since the Western approved ukrainian governments
    • the two Minsk agreements aknowledging all of the above that the EU failed to uphold to stop supporting the Nazis,
    • the 8 years the Eastern Ukrainians requested Russian intervention before they did 2 years ago
    • ukrainian refugees complaining that they are housed next to brown folks if they get the chance to settle in western europe (like what kind of person does that after escaping war)

    These are often standard operating procedures against most of the Global South (except for the last point) the only difference here is it is happening to white folks.

    https://migration.bristol.ac.uk/2024/12/16/ukrainian-refugees-the-new-white-other-in-british-discourses/

    https://www.channel4.com/news/how-ukrainian-refugees-are-handling-cultural-integration-in-ethnically-diverse-areas-of-the-uk

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      9 months ago

      uh-uh and it’ll take even more time to look up all the other stuff. it truly is one of times

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          9 months ago

          The thing is that I’m already. Comments aren’t really suitable for unsolicited random instructions

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            9 months ago

            The thing is that I’m already. Comments aren’t really suitable for unsolicited random instructions

            It’s rude to tell a bigot that they have an oppurtunity to educate themselves. As a westerner it should be their privilege to not be affected by that racism and to be called out on it the most heinous sin.

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              9 months ago

              You can go educate bigots, sinners, westerners or whoever want it, I’m not stopping you or assigned rudeness to such. Education is one of the rare important tasks!

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                You are not brainwashed. You are not stupid. You, as a westerner, have a relationship with the global south which affords you to filter the narratives you choose to believe in.

                I am asking you sincerely to engage in class betrayal on the global stage.

                If there’s a slight chance you come out of this as a better human being then I’ll take that gamble.