• @kd637_mi
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      -109 months ago

      You can be an ethnic Russian. That’s kind of besides the point though, “racial” boundaries are very often blurred and a hard and fast division of peoples is inherently a generalisation.

      • @mashbooq@lemmy.world
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        119 months ago

        Ethnicity is also not race. It’s dumb to try to accuse people of “racism” against russians

        • @kd637_mi
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          -99 months ago

          Whatever, plain old xenophobic hatred then. It’s a good thing pedantry is alive and well.

          • @mashbooq@lemmy.world
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            109 months ago

            It’s not xenophobia either; russia is the invader and oppressor, with overwhelming popular support domestically. Using derogatory terms for an oppressor that’s raping, torturing, and murdering isn’t any kind of phobia.

      • @bouh@lemmy.world
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        69 months ago

        Russia litteraly declared war and invaded Ukraine for an ethnic purge. They can stay in Russia if they don’t want to die from western weapons.