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  • So Russians are by default evil because of their country written on their passport? Or is it about where they’re born? Maybe about their ancestry? Or about their “ethnicity”?

    Once you start allowing discrimination based on “origin”, the difference between that and pure racism is just a blur.

    Is the guy a spy? Is the guy having ties with another government? Is he behaving in a suspicious way? Those are what matter, his “country” doesn’t, and the fact that people are immediately rushing to say that he’s from Russia shows the intention behind it: to apply a stereotype to someone they don’t like.

    As I said, I’m sure that you can find a lot of dirt on this guy that has nothing to do with his ID papers. Right now people are playing like Trump trying to cast doubt on the immigration status of his opponent: they are trying to use a stereotype based on origin to make someone look bad, without any further argument.

    At some point people need to stop thinking that morals are something that you can ignore freely whenever you want.
















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    They’re at their home, the kid is just calling other kids, the mother doesn’t seem aware of it, the looks of the tablet hints at a young kid, I don’t think it’s normal for parents to have a ~8 years old kid at home having video calls without knowing it and/or checking on it.

    But according to the downvotes I guess the best line of action is to give them unlimited access to the internet and only start thinking when they get kidnapped or traumatised. Now *that" is good parenting.


  • Clothes very similar to the stereotypical “african clothes”, they have dark skin and it is a core part of their identity, they got the actor of Tyler as a way to have an “exotic” accent, they also made them cannibals, with weird voodoo religious rituals with suggested (even if not so simple) rape, and if I’m not mistaken they commit terrorist suicide attacks as well.

    They feel like a concentrated mix of the racist ideas gathered over the past 200 years, and are used to show that they are scary. Or to make it more obvious, they are shown like “exotic brown people who hate the white ones, and just want to eat them, rape them, and suicide on them to mass murder civilians to instill fear”.

    I’m not the only one who noticed that but I really can’t understand how anyone can not see it.