#wanting accountability for mass murder and cultural erasing is not a phobia

[bella-amanita]

Thinking of all these Russians not living there that still consume only Putin's propaganda and tell everyone how Ukraine has been bombing Russia for years, they finally had to do something... Yeah, they are collectively hoping for Russian win. Tsarist or Soviet or anything else they are colonizers and oppressors without any shame about their history or present actions.

Russophobia isn’t any better than Islamophobia. It’s not cute how jingoistic the left has gotten, y’all are seriously worse than the right after 9/11.

Whatever u say bestie <3 I'm Eastern European. Russia has put the entire region through hell for centuries. There's a lot of genetational trauma surrounding Russia in my country due to them being absolutely brutal and raping everything that moved during WW2. My great grandma remembered those times. There are women alive right now who used to hid as young girls because Russians would come and destroy evreything they could get their hands on. Sounds a bit too familiar, doesn't it? I'm sorry I don't care about the victimization of poor little innocent Russians who go around putting destroyed Mariupol as their aesthetic wallpaper and think it's glorious to rape and murder Ukrainian children whose only fault is being Ukrainian. I'm sorry I don't care about people who think they have the superior culture and have done evreything they could to erase not just one other culture off the map, but several others. I'm sorry I don't care about Russians who go to ex USSR countries expecting evreyone to cater to them and think it's a violation of human rights not to speak to them in Russian. I'm sorry I don't care about people who have looted my country and took away chunks of it just because they could and wanted to. I'm sorry I don't care about people who are actively committing genocide as we speak and have forced friends dear to me to live a life that could crumble at any given moment, a life without any security and guarantee, a life of agony and seeing evreything they hold dear destroyed, spat on and left to rot. I have a friend who was forced to take her young baby and raise him in a country she knew nothing of, completely alone. Why? We both know why.

Truth is I AM NOT SORRY and never will be! Not for Russians who bask in their colonial glory. The truth is the majority of them support the genocide against Ukrainians, and those who don't are apathetic towards it and adopt the same lethargic laissez-faire attitude they always had. It's not them, it's never them. Except it is.