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The amount of hatred directed toward Russians in this blog post scares me, not sure why though.

Some paragraphs...:

"Russian government is ruled by this evil precisely because of who russian people are. Their individual choices led to this. It’s the nation of slaves. Even the smartest russians I know were surprising me from time to time with imperialist, sexist, racist narratives."

"This shit is deeply rooted in the russian language too. It’s subconscious. Their tsars had been killing and raping them for centuries, and it became a part of their cultural DNA, which they learned to love."

I wouldn't characterize it as hatred. He's actually trying to come up with an explanation grounded in history for how Russians can be doing what they are doing to his country, and for this:

https://www.levada.ru/en/ratings/

Understandable given the situation, but ethnonationalism along language lines is one cause of this war in the first place. Street fighting between Ukranian and Russian speakers in the eastern regions -> Russian support for the Russian speakers -> breakaway oblasts with "little green men" -> takeover of Crimea -> Ukraine bans teaching of Russian -> Russia invades "to protect" its speakers, very similar to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.

This kind of stuff is very difficult to stop escalating. It drags in bystanders. It's why EU human rights law protects minority languages and identities.

(This is not blaming Ukraine, the country, for its invasion by the aggressor Russia, and Russia has definitely been inflaming language war issues for its own purposes)

I would probably have a similar reaction if my home country was attacked. Nuance basically goes out the window when everything you love is under threat.

This article is straight up hatred propaganda and should be flagged.

If you ever wondered how Americans of Japanese descent ended up in camps during WW2, now you know.

As a spectator on this war, I can't completely agree on what he wrote in this blog. But his excessive hatred to Russia is understandable: his home country is being invaded and he will possibly lost his homeland or become a slave to Russia. Many other countries have been invaded or colonized for long time as well in history. Such terrible memories of a nation will be written in history textbooks and graven in its people's mind.

Whatever can be done for you, I will.

"Con mortis in lingua morta" is from "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Mussorgsky.

I hope that this violence is dead, in a dead language, and that you are whole.

What can I do to help?

I wonder where this will go.

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