Imagine being an antiwar Putin-hating Russian American. Maybe your friends back home think you’re a godless westerner but at least people here accept you.
Except suddenly they don’t. Suddenly they hate you and get you fired.
I don’t think we should do this to these people.
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While Reddit libs have been tuning out Russia (except for trump conspiracies) their entire adult lives many of these people have hated Putin for *decades*
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This shit is cringe and anybody giving into it should be embarrassed. This guy is against the war.
Nobody should be unable to work for their ethnicity. That’s not okay.
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This is such a disgusting decision. The 20-year-old Russian pianist has spoken out against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, yet Ukrainian Montrealers still demanded his performances be cancelled and the orchestra eventually gave in. montreal.ctvnews.ca/montreal-symph
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So anyway, do what I’m doing and look up some local Russian restaurants on google maps. Make reservations and keep them. Taste the food, admire the culture, and remember it’s Putin that is the enemy. We need the Russian people on our side.
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anyone not taking this as an opportunity to sell american culture and poach high-iq russian computer scientists and physicists wants america to not make it
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I’m told we teach history in our schools but nobody seems to have learned the lesson of American opportunism