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I was banned from r/Ukrainian for advocating for the Russian people and how we shouldn't demonize an entire population.
I'm Ukrainian. I was born in Ukraine...
Oh it happens all the time. The worst thing, in this case, is that you donβt even need to be Ukrainian to have such an opinion β people demonising an entire population deals in absolutes which are never a black/white situation, unfortunately
Nobody wants to think of the guy in the latest drone video as the father of a 6 month old who'll never know their father because he was drafted by an authoritarian government to fight in an unjust war. I'm sure a lot of those Russians are full on board with the war, but I'm certain a lot of them aren't, too. Same reason people have such a hard time empathizing with both the Oct 7 victims of Hamas and the Palestinian people. It's horror enough thinking of these things as good vs. evil...it's so much worse when you see all the grey. As an American, I can't help but see Israel making the same mistakes we did after Sept 11. I'm sure they feel the same rage and fear I felt then, and I imagine it's making them blindly lust for revenge just like I did. It's all just so fucking bleak how easy it is to convince ourselves that our enemies aren't people.