original deleted but here is the thread https://twitter.com/olgatokariuk/status/1501870371208839168
I don’t disagree with anything you wrote honestly I’m not saying she’s right with a capital R, but there’s some truth in the claim and we’d be wrong to discard the entire sentiment whole cloth because it’s being used in a disingenuous way
Yeah, I definitely wouldn’t write off Ukrainians as fully enfranchised - especially historically - into Whiteness
I think a lot of this discussion centers around a growing sentiment that European liberals too often invoke a flippant or ignorant comparison between Black Americans and virtually any other issue, when in fact Black Americans have a pretty unique history. That sentiment seems accurate to me, but that’s as closely as I’ve had time to follow