Links and Stuff
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can, thank you.
Resources For Understanding The War Beyond The Bulletins
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map, who is an independent youtuber with a mostly neutral viewpoint.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have good analysis (though also a couple bad takes here and there)
Understanding War and the Saker: neo-conservative sources but their reporting of the war (so far) seems to line up with reality better than most liberal sources.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict and, unlike most western analysts, has some degree of understanding on how war works. He is a reactionary, however.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the Ukrainian warzones.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Yesterday's discussion post.
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Wonder why Chinese might be wary of Westerners pushing LGBT on them when you are openly demonizing an anti-imperialist bloc forming because it’s “homophobic”.
Like if you don’t want LGBT rights to be associated with imperialism, stop combining these arguments together yourself
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Nope I never said gays were a western conspiracy. I said that chauvinists like you use western progressive stances on social issues to justify imperialism and to smear anti-imperialist states
I’m more than happy to separate LGBT issues and imperialism as separate unconnected topics of discussion. It’s you who commented in an effort to fuse them together. I never “ceded the ground”, you did.
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As a Syrian refugee of woke imperialist war with dead cousins… I was told to be nice today.
The demonizing comes from the immediate jump to accusations of bigotry. flattening of complex cultures and context. Just because the word Russia was mentioned.
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I get hot and bothered by casual chauvinism and western arrogance. Using what they took from us to bludgeon us. Our societies were more socially progressive until they were destroyed by the west. All progressive and secular movements in the Middle East crushed by western funded fascists. The gains of the USSR lost. Now liberals mock us and claim moral superiority because you beat us back 100 years in development
You could get some perspective about the primary contradiction and your place in empire
Code of conduct says the following:
If you got a bone to pick with someone, try to do it constructively and civilly.
I will not
stop being an annoying little shit.
I’ll stop being annoying if they stop being chauvinists. Deal?
Be civil or ban.
Is there a rule against being chauvinist or ban?
Code of conduct says no, but it does say the following:
If you got a bone to pick with someone, try to do it constructively and civilly. This website isn't a political party where's Mao's "Combat Liberalism" is to be applied, it's a forum for socialists to shoot shit and talk.
Well we shall agree to disagree then, I feel that imperialism narratives and western chauvinism are worse than being rude and bullying. You feel the inverse. One day it’s going to come to a head and you will ban me for being mean.
I normally like your stuff dude, just stop being a dick. If you can at least agree to take that under advisement we'll call this event settled.
Also try to limit the commenting multiple replies, I suggest tacking on whatever you wanted to say with an edit of the initial comment. That's just to keep a more coherent and linear flow of conversation going instead of arguing along 5 different threads with the same person over 20 different topics.
No.
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All I know is you hear ‘China and Russia developing friendly cultural alliance’ and you immediately think “this is the homophobia of the evil East”.