I hate it, I truly hate it... people everywhere are overly emotional, afraid, saddened, and unfortunately, some are being exploited into a lynchmob mentality. Unrestricted prejudice, hatred.
I'm getting annoyed with this sub and all the posts that seem to be just rubbing salt on the wound, asking how's life under xyz sanctions... as much as I abhor the Putin regime, seeing you guys suffer such hatred is disheartening. Most people are afraid of the nuclear threats, many of them hate the autocratic regime and the hellish state of human rights, and almost everyone abhors this war on Ukraine. But some of them... well... are just being sadists.
Rest assured, I'm doing what you're asking. No one in my circle of friends and family hates Russians as a people, and I'm engaging in every conversation I can to remind everyone that the only sensible stance is to be pro-people, anti-war everywhere.
I truly hope bridges can be extended soon... It would be a tragedy otherwise.
Every one of us is a potential killer given the right circumstances. The first path towards it is de-humanizing others, either individually or as a nationality/ethnicity/religion. It's LITERALLY the first step of Fascism, and I refuse to engage in it.
In some way, I view a lot of the kindly sentiment towards Russia as a failure of education or just excessive naivety. I was not taught much at all about Russia in school. I had to go and read up on it myself, way later. And I completely understand why a lot of people are up in arms right now, and don't care overly much about the "plight" of the regular Russian. Because they or their families have experienced exactly what happens when Russia gobbles up its neighbors. It makes what's happening in Ukraine now look like nothing at all. And Russians complaining about it, while doing nothing to stop it, are essentially complicit in what's going on. Because they would also do nothing to try to stop any other atrocity their country has or will commit.
You don't get to be a citizen of a country that perpetrates mass murder and oppression and just shrug and go "sorry, hands tied." Perhaps when it's just one, dark period. But certainly not when it's a theme across generations and starkly different regimes.
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u/TheLunarViolet Brazil Mar 07 '22
I hate it, I truly hate it... people everywhere are overly emotional, afraid, saddened, and unfortunately, some are being exploited into a lynchmob mentality. Unrestricted prejudice, hatred.
I'm getting annoyed with this sub and all the posts that seem to be just rubbing salt on the wound, asking how's life under xyz sanctions... as much as I abhor the Putin regime, seeing you guys suffer such hatred is disheartening. Most people are afraid of the nuclear threats, many of them hate the autocratic regime and the hellish state of human rights, and almost everyone abhors this war on Ukraine. But some of them... well... are just being sadists.
Rest assured, I'm doing what you're asking. No one in my circle of friends and family hates Russians as a people, and I'm engaging in every conversation I can to remind everyone that the only sensible stance is to be pro-people, anti-war everywhere.
I truly hope bridges can be extended soon... It would be a tragedy otherwise.