• kd637_mi@lemmy.sdf.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      11
      ·
      1 year ago

      You can be an ethnic Russian. That’s kind of besides the point though, “racial” boundaries are very often blurred and a hard and fast division of peoples is inherently a generalisation.

      • mashbooq@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        12
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        Ethnicity is also not race. It’s dumb to try to accuse people of “racism” against russians

        • kd637_mi@lemmy.sdf.org
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          10
          ·
          1 year ago

          Whatever, plain old xenophobic hatred then. It’s a good thing pedantry is alive and well.

          • mashbooq@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            11
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            It’s not xenophobia either; russia is the invader and oppressor, with overwhelming popular support domestically. Using derogatory terms for an oppressor that’s raping, torturing, and murdering isn’t any kind of phobia.

      • bouh@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        1 year ago

        Russia litteraly declared war and invaded Ukraine for an ethnic purge. They can stay in Russia if they don’t want to die from western weapons.