Shamefully stole this From r/SLS
“It’s not racist, it’s an insult” is a new one, I have to admit. I kind of figured I heard all of the lines by now, but that one is almost impressive in how dumb it is.
Apparently insults can’t be racist everyone!
There is no excuse for racist slurs especially when the racism reveals that they care nothing about the Russian military intervention and that they are willing to kill innocent Russians
As the Red Army advanced relentlessly toward Berlin, [Axis] propagandists often depicted the Soviet enemy as Asiatic invaders or attacking barbarians who resembled the Huns or the Mongols, without any specific mention of the Jewish plot that the [Third Reich] had long insisted lay behind them. References to Judeo-Bolshevik perfidy receded from prominence in the pages of [Axis] newspapers and the proclamations of the weekly newsreels.¹⁰ What remained was the devastating barbarism of a subhuman enemy.
The [Axis] had justified the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 by calling it a preventive war that would destroy the Judeo-Bolshevik system before the enemy—a racial-ideological composite of Jews, Communists, and subhuman Slavs always labeled Asiatic and un-European—could impose a cruel reign of terror on Germany and all of Europe. After Stalingrad, Joseph Goebbels had used the idea of Jewish Bolshevik slavery to whip up support for total war.
As the Third Reich collapsed, however, this ideological image of the enemy began to dissolve into discrete parts. To the end, Hitler raged in his bunker against the Jews and belief in an international Jewish conspiracy bent on Germany’s destruction remained a core principle of [his] ideology.¹¹ But when it looked East in the last phase of the war, [Axis] propaganda focused ever more single-mindedly on the so-called Asiatic hordes who had come from the “steppes” to rape, pillage, and plunder in the heart of Germany.
(Source.)
I’m certain there was zero extreme anti-russian racism coming from specific … groups … in western Ukraine prior to 2022. I base that opinion on pretty much nothing, but it was enough to convince me.
See, this is why I try to avoid emphasizing an oppressor’s nationality whenever possible. I don’t want any Germans, Italians, Japanese, Poles, Romanians and so forth reading my content to get the impression that their nationality or ethnicity was somehow the problem and thereby needlessly make them feel uncomfortable. Unless it would cause confusion, I replace mention of an oppressor’s nationality with ‘Fascist’, ‘Imperialist’, ‘Axis’, ‘collaborator’, ‘Herzlian’, ‘anticommunist’… I prefer to remind readers that those are the problem, not their national or ethnic origin.
I also (usually) disapprove of dehumanizing anybody, but that is another rant for another day.
