• Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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    19 hours ago

    Caricaturing people of other ethnicities look like monkeys to degrade them has a looong, racist tradition. About 100 years ago, russians were considered a backwards, horde of uncivilized asian/mongols in Europe.

    I simply see these kinds of caricatures as racist. And I’m not alone in this.

    It’s about as cool as depicting him as a kraken (antisemitic), or as a drag queen, to “own” him.

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      3 hours ago

      People, not person. That’s the obvious difference you seem to be consequently ignoring here to try to incite discussion.

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        2 hours ago

        So caricaturing Obama as a monkey wouldn’t be racist, then?

        He would even “deserve” it, being a war criminal and all that.

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          57 minutes ago

          <sigh> black people as a race are historically insulted by depicting them as primates and of course that would weigh much more than this case of a single Caucasian man. Hence racism as opposed to insult.

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            Yeah, all of a sudden, russians are “caucasian”. It’s very convenient to hide racism behind “that’s not a race, though”. /s

            People used to be racist against italians, baltic people and the irish. Don’t tell me that a russian person is ok, because they’re “white”.

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      3 hours ago

      About 100 years ago, russians were considered a backwards, horde of uncivilized asian/mongols in Europe.

      About 100 years ago Europe had just faced Russian raping and pillaging in a world War, and they’d soon face it again in the next war. For all intents and purposes, they were a backward horde of uncivilized fucks.

      But hey, they are sure proving they’re different nowadays, with them raping their way through another war.

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        Yeah, it was the savage barbarism of the backwater russian nature that made the rusrian soldiers pillageeand rape our white women. No other nation’s army did anything of the sort. Let’s remember that the russians where the canonical bad guys of world war 1, 2 and 3. /s

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          59 minutes ago

          Unless you’re from a country that’s suffered a Russian occupation during one of the wars, you don’t get to claim knowledge on the subject. And if you had been, you’d know what you wrote is literally true, no shadow of sarcasm about it.

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            44 minutes ago

            My grandfather was in a soviet prison camp. Fuck you and your racist revisionism.

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              37 seconds ago

              Man, you been baiting this entire thread to drop that line. Get over yourself.

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        16 hours ago

        Apparently, I’m a russian asset for pointing this out.

        Because racism is good if it targets the right people. /s