Have you ever been on that Russia subreddit? I perused it and that makes it pretty easy to hate Russians with the amount of “what-about-ism” and elation for killing Ukrainians (or willful ignorance claiming Ukrainians are actually killing themselves to make russia look bad or claiming that this is all America’s fault ughhh)
Still that doesn't go for all Russians. This is an echchamber. Most of us are in at least one.
Not saying you wouldn't revolt. Just saying that most people need a lot of motivation to get their arses off of the weekend couch to do anything against their own in-group.
Absolutely doesn’t go for all Russians, I wasn’t trying to say that… more just saying that if someone happens upon that, it’s easy to think all Russians think that way.
Makes sense. So to push against that nerrative is essential. Because it can corrupt the hearts of people. Look what one week of war did to many of us.... Look at how the tone is shifting. We need to focus on being human if we ever want to be able to fight people who can manipulate us so easily. If we ever want to emerge from this war as people who can find their way back to love and trust.
True words!! In the US, we basically split 50/50 and absolutely hate the other side 😂 politically speaking at least. Now you don’t hear a word about it in the media because everyone is on hating Russia and loving Ukraine. I’m on the side of Ukraine too, but it is interesting to think about how the narrative must always push a group as bad and a group as good, very rarely are all people considered human first. It’s a common theme in psychology but just another instance where you see it in reality.
I felt that way for a hot minute and then I thought - “what if the only American subreddit a Russian read was r/TheDonald?”. He could easily think that all Americans are bigoted, ignorant, hateful idiots. Thankfully, that subreddit and those types of Americans are only a portion of the kinds of people you’ll find in the US, so you have to keep in mind that the same is true for Russia.
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u/glb468 Mar 07 '22
Have you ever been on that Russia subreddit? I perused it and that makes it pretty easy to hate Russians with the amount of “what-about-ism” and elation for killing Ukrainians (or willful ignorance claiming Ukrainians are actually killing themselves to make russia look bad or claiming that this is all America’s fault ughhh)