original deleted but here is the thread https://twitter.com/olgatokariuk/status/1501870371208839168
Maybe stop being racist to the global south when it doesn’t back your corrupt shitstain of a government.
What wild is that Cuba helped Ukrainians following the Chernobyl meltdown, no strings attached other than the implicit expectation of support from the USSR. But Ukraine and Israel are 2/3 of the countries that back the US in supporting sanctions against Cuba for many years now. It’s no surprise that Cuba votes with Russia given the hostility
The Rightous People’s Democratic Republic of New Afrika aka Alabama :brace-dark-cowboy:
I put more thought into choosing emojis than 90% of the decisions I make at work or while driving
I find it interesting how Africa doesn’t have neonazis whereas Latin America (“morenazis”), Asia and fucking Eastern Europe do. Legitimately curious why that is.
True but I had specifically black African Nazi groups in mind when I said that.
IDK how untrue is this really? Like it’s misleading to imply that it was just Ukrainians but Slavs have historically been subjects of racist chauvinism for centuries.
Definitely slippery to imply that this somehow means they can’t be vilely racist themselves against others
The whole wording is slippery. It reduces the scope of anti-slavic bigotry to only target Ukrainians, and then suggests that Russia is just as culpable as Europe in terms of anti-slavic bigotry
Either that, or less charitably it reads as, “Ukrainians are the only undeserved targets of anti-slavic bigotry.”
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
You know Slavs were targets of genocide by the Nazis as well right? (Aided by Banderite Ukrainians, ironically.)
IDK what larping as POC means I agree she chose her words poorly but Slavs don’t just have some empty claim of being disliked - there was an attempt to erase them by Western whites in recent history
My dad and his shithead family are so obnoxious in thinking they have a leg to stand on when it comes to racism because they have irish ancestry. Sure maybe 300 years ago but you’ve long since been welcomed to the table of white supremacy so shut the fuck up with your “we were the real slaves” racist nonsense.
Bulgarian national identity is tightly entwined with the idea we were “slaves” in the ottoman empire. We weren’t, or certainly not in the chattel slavery way seen in the European and American colonies, though we (along with many others) were definitely second class citizen. Of course, Bulgarian chuds will absolutely :frothingfash: if you tell them this.
My question to them is “Does you national identity align you with the global struggle for emancipation and liberation of all people? Do you see yourself as spiritual kin to the oppressed and enslaved, or to the oppressors and slavers? Because if the colour of your skin weighs more than the history of your people, you’re exactly as Bulgarian as any other fucking cracker.”
Says the group acting like an episode of Borat.
