During world war two there was quite a rise of xenophobia against Japonese because of the acts of the Japonese empire, do you feel like xenophobia against you has increased in the past years?
You you are also from a ““enemy”” country from the US, you may also give away your experience.
Idiots do that. Resenting a whole people for the acts of one asswipe. Not every Russian want this war. Not every person loves war. Stupid propaganda shit from both sides.
you couldn’t be more right, my friend
We’re all the same apes, we just speak different languages ☺️ To answer your initial question (in proxy, am no Russian) btw: The russian friends i have do not feel more xenophobia than before. In Russia that is. I’d say here they totally would, considering how hating Russia became the new normal (and also considering how many Ukrainians fled to here)
Not really. Mostly online there’s some bloodthirst that can be disappointing, but I know how this works so I get it, it’s not the worst thing happening right now.
I think casual counterproductive xenophobia with e.g. Linux kernel banning russian maintainers supposedly as opposed to people explicitly involved with the war or gov’t is also disappointing.
Back before the war, a lot of my western friends in the UK were either Putin apologists, whenever I’d bring up my persecution as a trans person in Russia, they’d laught if off or say something like “I just like Putin, he’s so funny”. It’s been enjoyable watching them be silent now. It’s been less enjoyable to see them follow Farage and Trump and similar paternalistic populist “charismatic” leaders though. Please don’t make me have to immigrate again.
No quantity of “I told you so” will ever get through to them, a lot of westerners are too close minded and westcentric and they don’t always have the capacity to have discussions about geopolitics that don’t necessarily relate directly to them.
At the outset of the war, literally on day 1 iirc, I was dating somebody from Ukraine, and we had a lot more common ground and ability to discuss geopolitics, probably helps both of us were really engaged leftists at the time.
