It has nothing to do with anti-semitism, and in fact nothing to do with ethnicity at all.
Conversely, the people who today don’t protest against the Palestinian Genocide would not have protested against the Holocaust.
It has nothing to do with anti-semitism, and in fact nothing to do with ethnicity at all.
Conversely, the people who today don’t protest against the Palestinian Genocide would not have protested against the Holocaust.
My current plan is to wait for my basic coworkers to have kids, and those kids to be old enough to ask “what did you do in the 2020s to fight fascism?”. They’ll lie and say they did a lot, and I’ll burst through the wall to shout “NO THEY DIDN’T. THEY DID SHIT. THEY STAYED HOME AND PLAYED VIDEO GAMES. YOUR DADDY IS A COWARD”.
Hopefully somehow this will result in my coworkers dying alone and unloved in a pit of shame or something.
But the reality is their egos are indestructible and they will always think they’re good people, and their kids will probably be the same.
To be fair, most of Russian dissidents are angry about how the war is fought.
They would have wanted Ukraine to be taken over in a way that doesn’t spill Russians’ blood.
There are people in the Russia that are really against the whole war and want to see all of Ukraine’s territory liberated, but those are not many! I would estimate their number is somewhere between 100 and a bit over 1000 individuals. Among 140 million.
A good way to figure this is asking “who does Crimea belong to?”
Everyone who is really a dissident will say “Ukraine”, because in reality the case is crystal clear. Everybody who moved there knew it’s not part of the Russia in the same manner as other regions where the white-blue-red flag is waved. And yet they elected to move there. It’s a sad thing they’ll need to move away, yes, but they knew or at least had the responsibility to know what they are doing. And this is what Russian dissidents (both of them…) think.
But almost all “dissidents” will say “it’s complicated” or something similar. That’s how you know a person protesting against how the war is done.
And let me say: it is statistically extremely unlikely that the deported ones were among those 0,00071 % of the Russia’s population that are real dissidents.
And when the kid turns around to you and asks “What did you do to fight fascism”, you will say…?
Went to protests, volunteered for better candidates, tried to get other people involved. The bare minimum, perhaps, but more than another run of Baldur’s gate 3.