#circassians now ride HARD for ukraine but that doesn't like ... entitle ukrainians to claim the circassian genocide ? idk dude | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

manns-cape · 29 days ago

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idk i love and respect and adore my ukrainian friends who are fighting against russian occupation and ethnic cleansing, but i guess that i do wish that ukrainian academics who are correctly protesting against russia would focus on russia's history with ukraine. they're doing a thing where they're like, bringing to light every single ancient wrong that russia has done to any non ethnically russian slav, and...

idk i've heard a lot of people take issue with it. my personal thing is that it's weird and dehumanizing to have the genocide of my people only matter and be appropriated in a "russia bad" campaign. if anyone talks about it, i want it to be with people who actually care about circassians, not just doing a kind of ... like... modern day orientalist painting.

#like not even getting into the degree to which any of these ukrainians who are talking on this #we BOTH know the history between circassians and ukrainian cossacks and crimean tatars #circassians and ukrianians at that time were not exactly happy allies to say the least #that continued through world war 2 #circassians now ride HARD for ukraine but that doesn't like ... entitle ukrainians to claim the circassian genocide ? idk dude #we both know the role that ukrainians played in that

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