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marina gets her rage on, with a little help from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yuki_onna, (rightfully so) about the depiction of Soviet Russia (and Russia in general) in American media. It sounds like a serious case of Did Not Do The Research. (A phone call? In a KGB prison? Wut?)
But remember, guys, it's OK to be casually abusive against Russians! It's bad, but it's not as bad as being casually abusive to people of color, because Russians are white and their experiences don't count.
In a similar vein, this post and this post talk about how USian issues dominate discussions, and mentioning how things are in other countries is called derailing, and that's not OK.
marina gets her rage on, with a little help from yuki_onna, (rightfully so) about the depiction of Soviet Russia (and Russia in general) in American media. It sounds like a serious case of Did Not Do The Research. (A phone call? In a KGB prison? Wut?)But remember, guys, it's OK to be casually abusive against Russians! It's bad, but it's not as bad as being casually abusive to people of color, because Russians are white and their experiences don't count.
In a similar vein, this post and this post talk about how USian issues dominate discussions, and mentioning how things are in other countries is called derailing, and that's not OK.
