• MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Linus is from Finland. Finns barely tolerate Russians under usual circumstances. These are not usual circumstances.

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      1 month ago

      True he could have banned them long ago, it’s his project in the end, but he didn’t, he only did it after the sanctions

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        29 days ago

        I mean, that’s like calling a Native American racist for disliking European (white) Americans. Like sure, technically, but aren’t there some underlying issues at play that make the feeling more justified.

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          29 days ago

          Technically America belongs to Native Americans and the occupation of their soil is still going but you don’t hear racists tantrums against europeans. Perhaps you should study Native American culture i believe you can get something from it.

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            29 days ago

            I think many racists do in fact say Native Americans are throwing racist tantrums when they work towards gaining even the most basic of human rights.

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      30 days ago

      Linus’s dad was a Finnish communist and lived in USSR for some time, one can say a VIP person. You actually lack the context to realize how important this is. Many people of such connections (not accusing Linus, no) are usually still connected to Russia’s regime more than, ahem, me. The documents about just whom that encompasses are still secret in Russian archives. Well, technically one can get a permission, but random people are refused it.

      Finns barely tolerate Russians under usual circumstances.

      Yes, we know that, massacring Russian civilian population during 1917-1918 and then doing that David-n-Goliath thing in the Winter War, which is the only thing they want to remember, and then 1941-1945 with Finnish troops participating in the blockade of Lengingrad and making concentration camps for civilian population, again.

      I don’t get how that should work in Linus’s favor, though.

      Oh, and also during the Cold War the foreign country most integrated into USSR’s MIC was Finland. Not something of the Warsaw Pact ones, but Finland.

      You’re telling me they barely tolerated building warships for USSR, right? Poor guys.

      And then people in the Interwebs are asking why some average Russian doesn’t go and rebel or blow up FSB buildings or something. I wonder the fuck why.

      That’s why.

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      1 month ago

      If he did that that would have been genuine discrimination. If he has to do it now because of sanctions, then ok fine. But otherwise I don’t want to see an open source project treating people differently based on where they were born.

      Come on lemmy, how is this pro-racism comment upvoted so many times? Please, think.

    • aidan@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      It is genuine xenophobia. I like in Poland, and its like you’re either a homophobe, or a xenophobe- with pretty limited inbetween. (And there are plenty of people who are both)