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petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago“Americans do X”
*America. Look at the title again.
I gotta be honest, I don’t understand what you’re fighting for here. That people in Finland will have a slightly better opinion of you? Mexico will know you’re one of the good ones?
Russia has done a lot of disagreeable things, I’ve got to imagine its people are pretty upset about it.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I’m talking about comments a few levels up the chain talking about overgeneralizations, as well as the very common loose language online where people attribute problems to the people of a nation rather than its leaders.
I have no issues with Chinese or Russian people, I have issues w/ their respective governments. Yet we get hate crimes against the people that come from a region just because their government did something stupid.
I’m pushing against his culture.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
But you’re the one doing this. I’m not conflating people with country here. OP isn’t either.
Are you proposing that racists, when they hear “Russian government” instead of “Russia,” will stop being racist? I don’t really know what to say to that.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
When racists hear “Russians do X,” yes, they’ll attribute that to many ethnic Russians outside of Russia.
Look at the Japanese internment during WW2, tons of people were accused of being spys and interned simply because of their ethnicity, even if they had lived here for decades (or were even born here). Japanese people got mistreated for years after WW2 just because they were Japanese, without any association w/ the Japanese government. Why? Because propaganda associated the terrible actions of the Japanese government with the Japanese people and turned US citizens on each other.
So yes, I will push back on anything that even smells like that kind of BS. I will not tolerate generalizations like this, even if most “normal” people understand what it means. People already associate Jewish people in the US w/ Israel, even though many (most?) actually don’t like the Israeli state. So no, I will not sit back and allow casual intolerance to go unquestioned.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
*Russia.
You keep making this mistake. I’m starting to think you’re doing it deliberately.
Are you not reinforcing the idea that a country’s name refers to its people by insisting that everyone else and not you are the ones nefariously conflating the two?
The idea that a people are the same as their country is nationalism. How are you battling nationalism by preventing people from saying a country’s name?
If you said “Netanyahu did this,” and fair, he does a lot of things, would the racist not assume that the Isreali people elected him and thus agree with him anyway? Because they’re “of the same kind.”
You seem to think that their racism is derived from a simple misconception and not, like, a deep-seated fear and paranoia.
If you see someone say “Isreal does this,” then assume they mean the state. If you see someone say “let’s bomb Isreal into the shadow realm,” then politely snap their neck. It’s not that hard.