another banger from r/worldnews, the gift that keeps on giving.

    • @jamabalayaman@lemmygrad.ml
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      222 years ago

      WOW - so as long as it’s Russians, you can literally just make up any war crimes on the spot, and everyone will just believe it! No evidence necessary! As a Slav living in the West, I find it incredibly disturbing to see just how racist these people are against us. These people are my neighbours, coworkers, people I pass in the streets ffs :feelsbadman: :(

          • @xxcvzvcxx@lemmygrad.mlOP
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            132 years ago

            It’s ok mate you’re one of the good ones. When we start shoving you and your like in gas chambers, I’ll feel slightly bad for a few seconds! What more do you want?

      • @Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
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        52 years ago

        I worry we’ve crossed a line that cannot be uncrossed. If Russians weren’t indistinguishable from Anglos I would fully expect that we’d be hearing more stories about violence against you guys.

        • @jamabalayaman@lemmygrad.ml
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          62 years ago

          No violence on my end - thank goodness. But there have been a few occasions recently where I’ve been made to feel uncomfortable just because of my NAME. I’ll tell you about the worst occurence of this so far - Okay, so I go to this electronics shop to return something and purchase another thing. The manager rings me up, and he sees my name when he scans the rewards card. Out of nowhere, he just says “Oh, that’s a RUSSIAN last name(Which it isn’t even btw, I’m from the Balkans - not Russian. But he doesn’t know this.) What do YOU think about what’s going on in Ukraine?” In a really accusatory tone. I was so caught off guard by this, just totally put on the spot, and around a bunch of other shoppers too - I didn’t want to cause outrage, and so stammered a bit and just said some nice sounding vague BS about how I don’t support the war, don’t support either government because they’re both corrupt, and do support the people of Ukraine. Basically just got out of that without having to explicitly pledge support for the Ukro-fasc. But this is ridiculous - why the fuck am I being interrogated about my political opinions when I’m just buying something at a store ffs - how incredibly rude and unprofessional >:(

        • @xxcvzvcxx@lemmygrad.mlOP
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          52 years ago

          Absolute 100%. Look how they treated the Chinese when half the leaders were specifically telling them to not do that. If all of media told them Russians were evil and they were distinguishable from whites based on physical features, there would be insane amounts of hate crimes. Never forget after 9/11 a bunch of muricans murdered a whole bunch of Sikh people and Indians because they “looked Muslim”.

    • @i_must_destroy@lemmygrad.ml
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      112 years ago

      This is the type of shit they made up to go into Iraq the first time. It’s scary that someone can just make up the most vile shit imaginable and people will just instantly and uncritically believe it.

      • @xxcvzvcxx@lemmygrad.mlOP
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        92 years ago

        How dare you? Iraqis ate babies for entertainment! We’ve had testimonies! TESTIMONIES I SAY! ceaseless liberal screeching

    • @Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
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      52 years ago

      Oh lord, it’s that easy? It’s that easy to invent atrocities? No one’s even asking for a source.