Sri Lanka ends visas for hundreds of thousands of Russians avoiding war
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Investigation launched into order asking Russians to leave country amid blacklash over ‘whites only policy’
  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    5616·
    10 months ago

    Russian is not a race.

    Orcs are a race, but they’re fictional.

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
      122·
      10 months ago

      Russian is an ethnicity. Bigotry against an ethnicity is not different in any meaningful way from bigotry against a race. Referring to it as racism may be technically incorrect but it get the right idea across.

      • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        10 months ago

        no one’s asserting ALL russians - Navalney was a hero for example.

        But the country is run by a shitstain of a human being; calling them orcs or chuds is certainly justified by their warcrime actions.

    • Flumpkin@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1141·
      10 months ago

      Race in humans is a fictional construct. Doesn’t exist scientifically.
      So logically, racism can’t exist either.

      Hey, did we just solve racism???

      • AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.worldEnglish
        133·
        10 months ago

        Just because angels, gods, gremlins and Eskimos are imaginary doesn’t mean that people can’t be afraid of them.

        • nrezcm@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51·
          10 months ago

          You must be trolling because Eskimos aren’t imaginary. I use their tax software every year when I go to file my return.

        • Flumpkin@slrpnk.netEnglish
          515·
          10 months ago

          Racism has always been about inequality and dehumanizing people. It was always a constructed or mythological fixed identity.

          But that’s not funny. That’s just sad.

          It’s not funny like calling them orcs.

          But that comment is 85% upvoted so clearly I’m wrong and that can’t be racism. Hey, maybe I have brain bleeds from long covid. Honestly that would be preferable to this shit. “Russians aren’t really hur hur hur”. Fucking racist morons.