THROWBACK cross-post from: https://hexbear.net/post/49520
Seriously tho these people can’t be serious, right? Like this has to be a fucking op
Yes an extremely weak argument. Arguably not an argument. It’s one of those emotional truths that seem to just be accepted as fact nowadays.
My inherited experience is one of living in Ukraine in the Pale. Being victims of pogroms and extreme violence in the russian empire until the soviets came to power and afforded my family opportunities that they couldn’t have possibly dreamed of whilst living in extreme poverty in the Shtetl. Then having to deal with a bunch of nazis and nazi collaborator fucks for decades. That’s only on one side of my family which was lucky, by the way. The other side had huge portions killed because of said nazi collaborators. So who’s inherited experience is more valid?
Elevating a view point that is based on ignorance, vibes-based understanding of politics and economy, and–let’s be frank–lies with the express purpose of silencing dissenting opinions is, in fact, not respecting everyone’s experience. Sometimes certain voices need to shut the fuck up and listen to other’s experiences because what they believe to be true is just something absorbed through passive ideological osmosis.
You also speak as if I don’t frequently experience at least mild antisemitism when I express this perspective. I do, depending largely on where I am. A lot of people don’t care about bandera nazis in Ukraine currently, so pointing to this nazi history tends to spark a bad response.
